Legal Counsel – Corporate & Commercial
Added 6 hours agoWho Are We?
We are Welltech — a global company with Ukrainian roots and a powerful mission: to move everybody to start and stay well for life. Today 25.5 million users have trusted Welltech to help them build healthy habits — a testament to the real value our innovative, engaging wellness solutions deliver every day. 🌍
With five hubs across Cyprus, Ukraine, Poland, Spain and the UK and a diverse, remote-friendly team of 700+ professionals, we continue to scale rapidly. Our innovative apps — Muscle Booster, Yoga-Go and WalkFit — empower millions to transform their lifestyles and unlock their personal wellness journeys.
Welltech is where your impact becomes real. And our values clearly attest to that: we grow together, we drive results, we lead by example and we are well-makers.
If this looks like you and you thrive in a fast-paced environment, you’ll fit right in at Welltech. Let’s build wellness for millions together.
About the Role
We are looking for a Cyprus-qualified Legal Counsel to join our legal function and support our growing IT business. This role will focus on corporate governance, commercial contracts, compliance, employment law matters, and day-to-day legal support for cross-functional teams across the group’s entities worldwide.
The successful candidate will work closely with Finance, Procurement, HR, and business stakeholders, providing practical, business-oriented legal advice in a fast-paced technology environment.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Governance & Compliance:
Handle corporate governance matters for Cyprus entities and other Welltech group companies worldwide, including coordination of corporate approvals, documentation, and record-keeping.
Manage statutory, regulatory, and internal compliance matters for Cyprus entities, including timely filings, corporate records, and ongoing alignment with applicable legal, governance, and internal policy requirements.
Assist with group-wide KYC and audit procedures, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-coordinated legal input.
Commercial Contracts:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including services, software, marketing, confidentiality, lease, and intra-group contracts.
Cross-Functional Legal Support:
Act as a trusted legal partner to Finance, Procurement, HR, and business teams, providing practical, business-oriented legal advice on day-to-day matters.
Support cross-functional projects by ensuring timely legal review, clear communication, and alignment with business objectives.
Work closely with external stakeholders, including corporate service providers, agents, and external counsel, to coordinate legal documentation and support timely resolution of legal matters.
Employment Law Support:
Provide legal advice on Cyprus employment law matters, acting as an advisory partner to the HR team.
Review employment-related documentation, HR policies, and procedures where legal input is required.
Support HR in complex, non-standard, or escalated employment matters, ensuring alignment with applicable Cyprus employment law and internal policies.
Legal Operations & Process Improvement:
- Contribute to optimisation of legal workflows and processes; drive initiatives aimed at improving efficiency across the legal function and streamlining day-to-day legal support, including through the use of AI-enabled tools.
Required Qualifications
Cyprus-qualified lawyer (must-have) with approximately 5 years of post-qualification experience, ideally gained through a combination of law firm and in-house roles.
Strong expertise in corporate and commercial law, with proven experience drafting and reviewing contracts and solid knowledge of Cyprus corporate governance, compliance, and employment law matters.
Strong attention to detail, ownership, accountability, flexibility and adaptability.
Ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice in a dynamic environment.
Fluency in English at minimum C1 level (drafting and negotiation language).
Candidate journey
⭕️ Recruiter call --> ⭕️ Meet the HM team --> ⭕️ Skills assessment--> ⭕️ Business case --> ⭕️ Meet the Leadership
Nice to Have
Multi-jurisdictional exposure and hands-on experience supporting companies across multiple jurisdictions worldwide would be an advantage.
Experience working with or reviewing contracts with payment service providers (such as bank acquirers, PSPs, payment gateways, payment orchestration platforms).
Hands-on experience with AI-enabled tools, designing and creating legal workflows (including AI-enabled workflows) to support contract review, drafting, legal research, and legal process optimisation - overall AI savviness and a track record of building such workflows would be considered a considerable advantage.