Legal Counsel, Upvest
Product & Regulatory
Relocation support available
Investment API
Be an early applicant
Investment API
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Relocation support available
101-200 employees
Company mission
Upvest's mission is to make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- Courage to think innovatively and outside the box
- Strong interest in securities trading and good understanding of investment services offering is required to excel in our legal work
- Existing knowledge, experience or willingness to learn about securities, banking and corporate law (e.g. Aktiengesetz, PSD2, MiFID/MiFIR)
- Strong project management capabilities, as your work will require you to keep track of local requirements and corresponding documentation
- Willingness to work in a demanding and dynamic intellectual environment
- First and Second German Legal State Exam; applications from all levels of experience welcome
What the job involves
- We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow
- We’re building the first European Investment API to enable any financial institution offering a wide range of efficient and transparent investment products, such as stocks and ETFs in nominal, portfolio, and fractional form
- Organise, consult on and and manage development of new products in the fields of trading, payment and investment infrastructure
- Strategically and creatively think about solutions and opportunities with regards to new products’ legal as well as business needs
- Implement legal rules necessitated by product and operational needs
- Support Legal, Product and Operations teams with regards to trading and market operations
- We are currently embarking on conquering the European investment landscape
- Upvest will roll out its product offering over all across the European Economic Area
- In this regard, the Legal team plays a crucial role in connection with preparing, organizing and operating the rollout by way of using the European freedoms while at the same time complying with specific local regulation
- Upvest Legal also contributes to the firm's expansion by keeping track and managing its contractual relationships with End Users, Clients and Vendors
- Grow substantially by learning about building, expanding and running our investment services offering
- Learn about investment services, securities banking and securities regulation
- Challenge yourself by working in a high speed, dynamic and focused working environment
- Independently assess and implement required legal changes in contractual relationships
Our take
Upvest is a fintech startup that empowers financial services companies to provide their customers with access to a full range of financial assets, including stocks, ETFs and crypto products. Upvest's investment API integrates seamlessly with its customers existing systems and is designed to scale easily, freeing companies from the need to develop their own brokerage and custody infrastructure from scratch.
As one of the few companies in Germany that is licensed for both the custody of traditional securities and crypto, Upvest is able to provide its services across Europe. Its solution has been readily adopted by some major players in the space including Ginmon, Vivid and ABN AMRO.
Upvest is backed by a number of Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023 it closed a VC investment round which the company has claimed is one of the largest in the German fintech arena. Its impressive capital raise will go some way to achieving Upvest's goals of profitability as it expands into the US market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Jun 2022
$42m
SERIES B
Total funding: $91.2m
Company benefits
- Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.
- Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
- Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
- Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
Company values
- Learn and grow - We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback, knowing that we develop together. We value progression over perfection
- Team first - We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others’ opinions. We win and celebrate together. We nurture teams, not egos
- Own the outcome - Whether we win or lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. There are many ways to reach the outcome
- Tell the story - We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. We value transparency over complexity
Company HQ
Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Martin Kassing
(CEO)They have experience in fintech, private equity and capital markets. Founded another fintech, Shop.co, which was acquired by Klarna.
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