Legal Officer Intern / Apprentice (F/M)

About us

Lemonway simplifies complex and regulated payment transactions for marketplaces 🍋

We offer a payment solution dedicated to crowdfunding platforms and B2B/B2C/C2C marketplaces across Europe.

Our SaaS solution enables over 400 platforms to collect funds within a secure and regulated framework (DSP2, Payment Agent, KYC (Know Your Customer), AML/CTF). 🚀

The company has over 140 Lemonheroes of 21 different nationalities. 🌎

We have raised €35 million in Series B funding to boost our growth.

Join a fast-growing scale-up offering one of the most innovative solutions in a rapidly expanding market!

About the position

As a Legal Trainee, you will be assisting the legal team in disseminating a legal mindset across the firm, providing advisory services to the different teams and resolving various legal related issues, with a special focus on contractual aspects and, to a lesser extent, personal data protection.

The Legal Trainee job position is a real opportunity to learn to tackle new challenges within a human-scale FinTech company, subject to an ever-changing regulatory framework.

Responsibilities

You are basically versed in legal and contractual aspects, and you will reinforce the team across diverse missions with a special focus on contractual and data protection aspects.

Notably, you will participate in :

- Negotiation and drafting of contracts for all aspects of the company’s activity: IT services and payment services agreements with our clients platforms (marketplaces, crowdfunding), suppliers’ contracts, strategic partnerships agreements, data protection agreements;

- Answering to requests for proposals with the sales team;

- Drafting and updating Lemonway template agreements;

- Regular internal corporate operations;

- Providing legal training to Lemonway operational teams (including sales team);

- Management of pre-litigation and follow-up of litigation together with our law firms, and particularly for contractual litigations;

- All other subjects covered by the legal team, as necessary from time to time: corporate missions (fundraising, general meetings, supervisory board, formalities, internal PoAs, etc.), insurance policies and intellectual property follow-up, internal control reviews, building intra-company new projects involving legal/contractual aspects, etc;

- Support all Lemonheros with regards to their contractual (and other legal) questions.

About you

Desired Skills

• Very good knowledge of French contractual law, and general knowledge of corporate law, IT services in Saas or equivalent services

• Notions in banking law, payments compliance, PSD2, AML/CFT, GDPR are a plus

• Notions in the overall Payment Institutions regulatory framework are also a plus

• Proficiency in office automation tools: Microsoft 365, MS Teams

• Good knowledge and appetite for the financial industry world and/or e-commerce and/or payment

Soft skills

• You are rigorous

• You are curious, with a great will to understand the company legal environment and the company various legal issues

• You have good communication skills in your relations with both the internal teams and the external clients and providers

• You are a real team player with a deep sense of collaboration but also are comfortable working autonomously

• You are able to manage your time effectively, anticipate and prioritize your tasks to carry out your missions within the given deadlines

• You have a strong sense of confidentiality

• You are known for your good organizational and project management skills

• You are fluent in French and English. Another European language (Spanish, Italian, German) is a plus!

Experience

Master 2 in Law (Business law, contractual law, banking law)

What's in for you

● 6 months internship or 1 year apprenticeship (ideally 3 weeks at work / 1 week at school) starting from September 2024🗼

● Swile card 💳

● 50% reimbursement of Navigo or Velib passes 🚅

● Multicultural team and international environment 🌍

● Access to Gymlib 🤸