Legal Expert

Legal Counsel | Crypto & Fintech | Aml/Cft & Vara Compliance

A UK-qualified solicitor with over 25 years of legal, compliance and governance practice — bringing to the crypto and fintech sector a combination of AML/CFT compliance programme design, commercial contracting depth, GDPR and data privacy expertise, employment law, corporate governance and multi-jurisdiction regulatory advisory that fast-scaling digital asset businesses operating under VARA, DIFC and UAE frameworks need from their legal function. A commercially minded legal counsel who translates complex regulatory obligations into practical, operationally embedded compliance frameworks — enabling crypto and fintech businesses to move fast without creating avoidable legal and regulatory risk.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $200,000

Hourly rate: $150

Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom


Experience

Senior Legal Adviser
REL Business Law
2010 - 2017
Senior legal adviser providing compliance, commercial and governance advisory support to financial services and technology businesses — advising on AML/CFT, commercial contracts and regulatory frameworks as trusted legal partner.
Legal Counsel / Legal Services Director
The Ramsay Partnership
2006 - 2017
Director providing senior legal advisory services to major regulated financial services and technology organisations — advising on AML/CFT compliance, commercial contracts, GDPR, governance frameworks and regulatory advisory across multiple jurisdictions, with trusted adviser relationships at board and executive level in fast-moving regulated environments.
Senior Solicitor
Burness Paul LLP | Employment Law Consultants | Maxwell Maclaurin | Mentor RBS Service (in-house)
1999 - 2006
Senior solicitor in leading private practice firms and in-house at the RBS Group — building the AML/CFT compliance, regulatory advisory, commercial contracting and multi-jurisdiction legal capability that 25 years of Legal Counsel practice reflects.

Skills

hr
legal
english
urdu