ABOUT US

YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Deliveroo, Etsy and Grubhub. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend’s AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the US, UK and EU.
We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.
We are seeking a top-performing, smart and motivated individual to join our legal team in London. You will work with the legal team and the wider company to deliver growth against ambitious targets (>doubling each year) and support YouLend’s business in the US, UK and Europe with a focus on the rapidly growing US business.
If you are a US-qualified attorney, have 5+ years of PQE with transactional experience in corporate, M&A, financing, fintech and/or capital markets practice at the London or EU office of a top US law firm and are looking for an opportunity to leverage your experience in an in-house setting while expanding the breadth of your practice, this could be a great opportunity for you. The role will require you to advise our US business across a wide range of practice areas (including product, tech, commercial negotiation, regulatory, and capital markets), but is also highly varied and will require you to work across our other geographies in the UK and EU.

REQUIREMENTS

You will be:

• Supporting the commercial team in negotiating major partnerships for YouLend, and drafting / updating bespoke partnership agreements. Some of YouLend’s partners include Amazon, eBay, Stripe, and Shopify.
• Working cross-functionally with all arms of the business (including commercial, product, tech, sales, etc.) to provide pragmatic and business-minded legal advice.
• Structuring and refreshing our product offerings and partnership models to navigate the dynamic US fintech regulatory landscape.
• Conducting ongoing review and updating our merchant financing agreements in light of market / regulatory / partner-specific developments.
• Collaborating with the capital markets team to manage and negotiate complex capital mandates such as term facilities, revolving credit facilities, forward-flow financings and securitisations.
• Driving development of innovative financing products to serve our SME customer base.
• Supporting the product team on YouLend’s existing products and the development of new products.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating various contracts and other legal documents.

Please refer the Job description for details