General Counsel (Head of Legal Affairs)

About Quant

Quant provides programmable money and settlement infrastructure for regulated institutions. Its orchestration layer sits below applications, above ledgers, and across existing financial systems, enabling banks, capital markets firms, and financial institutions to coordinate money and asset flows without replacing their core infrastructure. Quant's technology is deployed in regulator-led programmes with the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the UK Finance Regulated Liability Network, and the Great British Tokenised Deposit network. For more information, visit quant.network.

The role

Quant is appointing a full-time General Counsel to lead the group's legal function. Quant sells tokenised-money and interoperability infrastructure to tier-1 banks and financial-market bodies. The General Counsel protects the company in that work, keeps the group's corporate house in order, and makes legal spend predictable.

The General Counsel works most closely with the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, Head of Sales, Chief Product Officer, and programme and bid teams. The role is supported by a paralegal, who handles legal administration and filings, and holds the external legal budget.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership and governance

• Act as senior legal adviser to the Chief Executive Officer, Senior Leadership Team and boards, giving clear recommendations rather than options alone
• Lead board and shareholder governance across all group entities, including resolutions, registers, filings, persons with significant control and ultimate beneficial owner records, and company secretarial providers
• Own the delegated-authority and signing policy
• Advise the business on managing and mitigating legal and commercial risks
• Support Quant's international expansion, advising on the legal requirements of entering new markets
• Review, develop and implement policies and procedures across the company

Commercial and bids

• Draft and negotiate customer, partner and supplier agreements, including non-disclosure agreements, proof-of-concept and minimum viable product agreements, master services agreements and statements of work, licensing, systems integrator partner and teaming terms, and data processing agreements
• Lead the legal sections of bank requests for proposal, industry pilots (such as the Great British Tokenised Deposit network) and procurement questionnaires
• Build the template library and playbooks, and train the sales team to use them
• Work with the product and marketing teams to develop and launch products and solutions, including legal review of products and marketing materials

Disputes, regulation and intellectual property

• Manage litigation through external counsel to agreed budgets, with reporting to the board
• Advise on the regulatory perimeter for bank-facing products, including payments, electronic money, tokenised deposits, data protection, the Digital Operational Resilience Act, sanctions and anti-money laundering
• Monitor regulatory and legislative developments relevant to the industry, keeping management informed of current, new and proposed legislation
• Own the compliance policy suite and associated training, working with Human Resources
• Oversee the patent and trademark portfolio with external attorneys

External counsel and legal operations

• Select, appoint and manage external law firms under delegated authority, running competitive pitches above the agreed threshold
• Set and report against the annual legal budget, and approve fee notes against agreed scopes
• Run the legal intake process, contract repository and legal risk register, with the paralegal maintaining records, signatures and filing

Required Skills and Experience

Essential

• Qualified Solicitor of England and Wales or equivalent, with 12+ years' post-qualification experience
• Strong private-practice training plus 5+ years in-house, ideally as sole or lead counsel
• Technology and software-as-a-service contracting with large financial institutions
• Corporate finance experience across venture rounds, convertible notes, option schemes and due diligence
• Knowledge of the United Kingdom financial-services regulatory perimeter, data protection, anti-bribery and corruption, and anti-money laundering
• Proven record of managing external law firms to budget and running tenders
• Good knowledge of intellectual property issues, particularly as they relate to emerging technologies

Desirable

• Dual qualification (for example, New York)
• Previous General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel role
• Bank procurement, outsourcing and Digital Operational Resilience Act terms; United States fintech and United States commercial contracting
• Payments, digital assets and financial market infrastructure rulebooks
• Knowledge of distributed ledger technology, smart contracts and digital assets, including the related data privacy and intellectual property issues
• Experience building a legal function from scratch

Personal qualities

• Commercial and decisive, with the confidence to hold a position under commercial pressure and explain the reasons
• Willing to draft as well as advise
• Communicates clear, concise advice that leads with a recommendation
• Naturally collaborative across departments, able to work independently and as part of a team
• Organised and analytical, with the ability to prioritise competing tasks

Benefits

Life at Quant

We aim to be one of the most desirable employers in fintech, somewhere you are valued and inspired to do the best work of your career, alongside a high-performance team that feels the same. That's why, in addition to a competitive salary and performance-related bonus, we provide:

• Pension scheme
• Health insurance
• Life assurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid sick leave
• Training allowance
• Values awards
• Physical and mental wellbeing perks including online fitness classes, online General Practitioner (doctor) consultations and discounted gym membership

Our Shared Values

We have expertise in finance and technology in common but what unites us is our beliefs. We believe in:

Innovation: We love a challenge and have little respect for the status quo. Experience has taught us that problems are a matter of perspective and that, with new ideas and a fresh way of looking at things, solutions often present themselves.

Ambition: The scale of a task won't deter us when we believe it will take us closer to our vision. Every problem is an opportunity. Every obstacle, the chance to take a calculated risk and question assumptions. In short, we're not afraid to think big.

Trust: Fundamental to a prosperous economy, trust also lies at the heart of our company. Indeed, we believe it is the bedrock of a healthy society committed to equality and fairness. We trust each other, we engineer trust into our solutions, and we work hard every day to earn the trust of our clients and partners.

Adaptability: We remain open-minded, objective and flexible at all times. When the facts change, so does our approach. We embrace that agility and encourage all those we work with to do the same.

Respect: We're respectful of the ideas and perspectives of others, we celebrate people's differences and recognise their achievements. We also hold the needs and health of our environment dear. And we have no tolerance for bullying, harassment, or discrimination of any kind.

Please note that as we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position, we are focusing our search initially on candidates who have the right to work and indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom.

Technology powers our progress, but people drive our success. While we embrace innovation to enhance efficiency, we believe that true talent deserves a personal connection. Every candidate is thoughtfully reviewed by a member of our team – because finding the right people is more than a process, it's a commitment to our core values.

Closing date for applications is 17.00 Greenwich Mean Time/18.00 Central European Time on Friday 20th November 2026

Note to Recruitment Businesses – we are focusing our efforts on sourcing direct candidates for this role and so request not to be sent unsolicited curricula vitae and/or enquiries. Should we decide to enlist the support of a Recruitment Partner, we will reach out directly to the Organisations with whom we have an established relationship.

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