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From start-up to $75bn valuation: Revolut’s legal chief on a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ role

From start-up to $75bn valuation: Revolut’s legal chief on a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ role

Tom Hambrett first heard about Revolut while travelling. He had left his job at Herbert Smith Freehills in Sydney in 2017, and while in Mexico, interviewed for a role as its first in-house lawyer.

After becoming the two-year-old company’s 23rd employee, he relocated from Australia to London to help build what would become one of the UK’s most successful fintechs.

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