Legal Director, Capital Markets and Tokenisation

As Legal Director, Capital Markets and Tokenisation at Assetize, you are the senior lawyer alongside the Head of Legal and General Counsel. You own the issuance programme, including offering documents and the prospectus programme, and lead the legal side of licensing work. You work with the founders to structure new products and turn them into documents that close deals, while partnering the Compliance Director on regulatory permissions and applications.

What you'll do

• Lead structuring of new products with the founders, often live on client calls, and turn them into documents that close
• Own the prospectus and offering memoranda programme and manage regulator engagement on them
• Lead the legal side of licensing, including permissions perimeter, applications and documents, in partnership with the Compliance Director
• Instruct and manage external counsel tightly, with fees proportionate to the deal
• Lead and develop the Legal Manager, and set the standard for how the team uses AI in legal work
• Sit on issuer and product boards where useful, subject to approval

What you bring

• Qualified lawyer with around 5 to 8+ years of PQE in capital markets, structured products, funds or financial regulation
• Experience owning matters end to end, whether in practice or in-house
• Proven regulatory engagement, such as taking a licence, consent or prospectus through a regulator
• Working knowledge of two or more of: Jersey, Guernsey, the BVI, ADGM, DIFC, VARA, the EU Prospectus Regulation or MiCA
• Existing experience with, or genuine eagerness to learn and adopt, AI tooling to accelerate timelines, document review, research and scoping

Nice to have

• Experience with tokenised securities, virtual assets or crypto licensing
• Knowledge of Shariah compliant structures
• Track record building a legal function at an early-stage business

What we offer

• Salary and equity for the right candidate
• Remote position based in London
• Full-time role

About Assetize

Assetize specialises in tokenised capital markets, including tokenised real-world assets, across virtual assets, security tokens, commodity tokens, certificates, funds and more. The platform has over $300m of assets issued and serviced, with licences and issuance programmes expanding across Europe and the Gulf.