Senior Legal Counsel, APAC

Codex is building the infrastructure for stablecoin-based cross-border payments — moving money faster, cheaper, and more transparently than the legacy financial system. Backed by Circle, Coinbase, Dragonfly, Wintermute, and Cumberland, we're a small team solving hard problems at the intersection of crypto and global payments.

Financial Partnership Contracts

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  Review, negotiate, and execute commercial agreements with financial partners — payment providers, banking counterparties, liquidity providers, and PSPs

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  Own the contract lifecycle end-to-end: preparing markups, tracking open issues, coordinating with counterparties, and driving to execution without losing momentum

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  Maintain and update standard form FP agreements as the regulatory and commercial environment evolves

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  Advise the Financial Partnerships and Sales teams on commercial terms, entity routing, and deal structuring across multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction arrangements

Financial Partner RFIs & Due Diligence

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  Manage inbound legal and regulatory due diligence requests from financial partners — collating documentation, preparing regulatory status summaries, and coordinating with Compliance on AML/CFT-related queries

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  Prepare and maintain legal memos, licensing summaries, and corporate documentation packages for partners requiring clarity on Codex's regulatory status and entity structure

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  Ensure Codex's outbound KYB documentation to financial partners is accurate, current, and responsive

Product Regulatory Analysis

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  Analyse the regulatory implications of new products, payment corridors, and client segments before they go live — identifying licensing requirements, restrictions, and structural considerations across relevant jurisdictions

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  Advise Product and Engineering on the legal constraints that affect feature design, entity routing, and market entry sequencing

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  Monitor regulatory developments across key jurisdictions (APAC, LATAM, EMEA) and brief the legal and business teams on material changes

• Qualified lawyer with 8 –10 years of experience, ideally combining a first-tier law firm foundation with in-house experience at a fintech payments company

• Deep expertise in financial partnership contracts and payments regulation — this is a domain specialist role, not a generalist one

• Comfortable operating autonomously: you can pick up a complex contract, identify the issues, and drive it to execution without needing significant direction

• Commercially aware — you understand that legal is an enabler of the business, not a gate, and you give advice accordingly

• Meticulous and detail-oriented, with the communication skills to translate complex legal positions into clear guidance for non-lawyers

• Based in APAC or a time zone that overlaps meaningfully with the team

• Experience across multiple APAC and other regions and familiarity with the regulatory frameworks governing cross-border payments and digital assets in the region

• Exposure to stablecoin or digital asset regulation

• Prior experience as a solo or early legal hire at a fast-growing fintech