Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate)

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Job Description: This is a senior, high-impact role in Wise's global Legal team, focused on corporate law, corporate governance and strategic transactions across a listed, multi-jurisdictional group. As a public company dual-listed on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange and operating across the UK, EMEA, the US and beyond, Wise's corporate agenda is broad and fast-moving. We cover a range of matters such as capital markets and disclosure, group M&A and corporate development, treasury and debt programmes, regulatory capital and licence applications, share plans and reward, and board and subsidiary governance. Your mission is to enable, protect and empower the business and people of Wise, helping the group achieve growth with minimal distraction. You'll partner with senior stakeholders across the business and provide first-rate corporate legal advice as Wise continues to scale globally. To achieve this you'll be: • Providing strategic corporate law advice and practical, commercially-focused solutions to the group and its subsidiary entities across general corporate law and corporate governance, supporting both listed parent-company and regulated-subsidiary requirements; • Advising…