Top Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads global corporate transactions, including private-company financings, M&A, joint ventures, secondary sales, governance, restructurings, and corporate actions. Advises executives and cross-functional teams on transaction structure, documentation, regulatory considerations, and closing processes. Manages external counsel across jurisdictions and develops scalable legal processes, playbooks, templates, approval frameworks, and LegalTech-enabled workflows.

Provides embedded legal and regulatory counsel for Airwallex’s global Yield investment product. Advises on product design, customer documentation, licensing, partner arrangements, market launches, and expansion across multiple jurisdictions. Translates complex requirements into practical product decisions, develops legal playbooks and governance processes, and collaborates with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, regulators, external counsel, and financial partners.

Manage corporate secretarial and governance matters for Airwallex’s Americas entities, including board and committee meetings, entity lifecycle events, statutory filings, records, shareholder matters, equity administration, and regulatory compliance. The role partners with legal, finance, tax, people, directors, regulators, and external providers across multiple jurisdictions. It requires strong governance expertise, discretion, attention to detail, and experience supporting global or regional corporate structures in regulated industries.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel to Airwallex’s global Yield investment product from design through launch and market expansion. Advises on cross-jurisdictional investment, wealth-management, licensing, broker-dealer, custodial, disclosure, and product-governance matters. Partners with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, regulators, external counsel, and financial-services partners. Develops scalable legal playbooks, launch checklists, and governance processes while translating complex requirements into practical commercial solutions.

Provide employment law counsel across the Americas, advising on employee lifecycle matters, workplace investigations, disputes, litigation, contractor classification, cross-border work, compensation, benefits, and terminations. Develop employment policies, playbooks, templates, and manager guidance while coordinating external counsel and partnering with People, Legal, Privacy, and business teams in a regulated fintech environment.

Leads product legal support for embedded finance, lending, issuing, and payments products. Advises Product, Engineering, Sales, Risk, Compliance, and financial partners on U.S. and international payments regulations, licensing, AML, consumer finance, card-network rules, and BaaS requirements. Structures and negotiates financial partnership agreements, supports product launches across jurisdictions, develops legal playbooks, manages two lawyers, and serves as the U.S. legal lead for Embedded Finance and Lending.

Advise on payments and financial-services regulations across the Americas, including licensing, money transmission, product launches, regulatory filings, and payment flows. Research regulatory developments, provide practical guidance to cross-functional teams, manage external counsel, support regulator and government-relations work, and help improve legal workflows using AI and other tools. The role focuses primarily on US regulation, with opportunities involving Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

Provide senior regulatory legal advice for payments and financial services across the Americas. Lead licensing, registration, and compliance workstreams; engage regulators; support market entry and product launches; manage external counsel; partner with product, risk, and compliance teams; and shape regional regulatory strategy.

Advise on payments and financial-services regulatory matters across the Americas, including licensing, money transmission, payment flows, product launches, filings, and regulatory developments. Partner with legal, compliance, risk, product, strategy, and commercial teams; translate complex requirements into practical guidance; manage external counsel; support government-relations work; and contribute to regulatory projects across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

Provide senior regulatory legal advice for Airwallex Americas on payments and financial services. Manage licensing, registrations, compliance obligations, regulator engagement, cross-border product support, regulatory strategy, and external counsel. Partner with product, compliance, risk, and commercial teams to enable market expansion and ensure timely regulatory filings while improving efficiency with AI and legaltech tools.