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Farfetch, a leading global luxury fashion marketplace connecting customers in over 190 countries with more than 1,400 brands and boutiques, seeks a Senior Legal Counsel - Regulatory for its London office (Old Street tech hub).
You will serve as a strategic business partner to the Legal team and broader organization, advising on regulatory matters across multiple operational territories. This is a diverse, hands-on role requiring someone commercially minded, intellectually curious, and capable of quickly understanding and applying international laws and regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Advise on payment regulation, digital regulation, product compliance, and consumer protection frameworks
- Track, assess, and advise on implementation of new regulatory requirements for the Farfetch Group, with focus on payments regulation
- Identify, monitor, and evaluate regulatory risks and enforcement trends; take proactive mitigation steps
- Develop strategies for and engage with relevant regulators
- Advise on commercial matters including contractual agreements with partners and payment processors; ensure compliant payment models
- Work on tariffs-related legal matters
- Negotiate, draft, and review commercial contracts, policies, guidance, and legal documentation
- Provide proactive, strategic, and pragmatic advice to the Group Legal VP, Regulatory Legal Team, and business units
- Liaise with external law firms as needed
- Leverage legal technology and AI tools ethically to deliver advice efficiently and support team adoption
The role operates within a hybrid model (3 days office, 2 days remote) and requires close collaboration with the international Legal Team and all business areas.
Requirements:
- Qualified lawyer with 1–3 years' post-qualification experience (PQE)
- Superior analytical and creative problem-solving skills
- Training from a top-tier law firm preferred
- Experience advising on payments regulation and commercial matters preferred
- Proven ability to assess new international legislation/regulation and apply on a risk-based basis to a business
- Curiosity and ability to absorb information quickly, apply it in assessments, and drive implementation
- Ability to understand nuances and complexities; translate into commercial, pragmatic, concise advice in global context
- Strong work ethic, attention to detail, highly proactive, organized, efficient; able to work on fast-moving projects
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within teams
- Excellent communication, organization, and drafting skills
- Driven, forward-thinking, robust, innovative, agile, with commercial acumen
- In-house legal experience beneficial
