Legal Counsel - LATAM
As a member of the Betsson Group Legal Team, the Legal Counsel will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to provide practical, commercially focused legal advice and support. The role plays an important part in helping the business navigate legal and regulatory challenges while supporting strategic growth initiatives across the LATAM region. This is a dynamic opportunity to partner with multiple teams and make a direct impact on business decisions and operations.
The Legal Counsel will work closely with the rest of the Legal Team and provide support to the Compliance team and the wider business, particularly the Commercial teams. The focus will be on labour, corporate, commercial, and intellectual property matters, as well as other areas as needed. International travel may be required. The role is based in Bogota, Colombia, and reports to the Legal Business Partner for the LATAM region.
- Advising and counselling the organisation on various legal matters and complex projects.
- Identifying legal issues, providing analysis of legal risks and creating and implementing solutions structured to achieve business objectives efficiently.
- Raising business awareness of legal issues and ensuring early legal involvement.
- Acting as legal counsel to the organisation in all activities relating to contractual negotiations, labour affairs and statutory obligations.
- Partnering closely with the rest of the organisation and taking responsibility for independently structuring, reviewing and drafting a variety of complex transactions and contracts related to commercial, gaming and betting affairs as well as other documents involving Betsson Group operations.
- Negotiating directly with commercial, gaming and betting providers on drafting contracts and ongoing contracts management.
- Providing other ad hoc assistance, where necessary, including in respect of commercial negotiations with other service providers.
- Substantiating recommendations and advising on appropriate actions to support management decision processes.
- Managing disputes and litigation and/or investigations, and making operational decisions independently.
- Providing training in different relevant legal topics to key internal stakeholders.
- Training and supporting more junior lawyers, paralegals and support staff within the team.
- Qualified lawyer with a law degree/post-grad from a reputable university (required).
- 5+ years of work experience, either with a reputable consultancy/law firm or as in-house counsel for multinational companies (required).
- Experience providing practical guidance to international businesses, project management and handling complex legal issues (required).
- Experience negotiating, drafting and closing complex commercial transactions and providing quick, concise, and practical legal advice, with a proactive and commercially aggressive problem-solving approach (required).
- Understanding of both the legal and compliance view toward risk and regulatory issues (required).
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and pressurised environment and act decisively (required).
- Self-sufficient individual with excellent interpersonal skills, able to work in a tightly knit team supporting others when needed (required).
- Proficiency in English – excellent command of both written and spoken, outstanding communication skills (required).
- Other languages are a plus (nice-to-have).
- LL.M. in Commercial and/or Corporate Law (nice-to-have).
- Additional experience in the IT, E-Commerce, and/or online gaming sector (nice-to-have).
- Opportunity to be at the sharp end of the business where the organisation heavily depends on your advice.
- Joining a highly skilled and tight-knit team in a fun environment with people from different backgrounds.
Betsson is a diversified, multinational gaming group whose history dates back to 1963 and which is now listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. The group employs around 3,000 people of more than 75 nationalities across over 20 locations; Betsson AB is registered in Stockholm, while its operational headquarters in Ta' Xbiex, Malta, run the day-to-day business. Through brands such as Betsson, Betsafe and NordicBet, it offers casino, sportsbook and other gaming products in regulated markets across Europe, the Americas and Central Asia. Its proprietary technology supports a scalable model serving both B2C customers and B2B partners, with responsible growth and customer protection central to its strategy.
