Legal Counsel, Institutional

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Requirements:

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales with at least 2 years experience working in a financial services institution in the UK or in a law firm supporting such clients (ideally with some previous in-house experience).
• Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology.
• Experience working with product teams launching fintech, financial services, investment or similar products.
• Experience working and leading with cross-functional, globally located teams.
• Familiarity with UK/EU regulatory regimes applicable to financial instruments (including MiFID, EMIR, AIFMD) and crypto assets (e.g. MiCA, AMLD).
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and preconceived notions of what is possible.
• Excellent judgement, analytical rigour, clear communication, and business pragmatism.
• Top-notch analytical skills with experience owning projects from concept to finish.
• Creativity, comfort and experience with oral solutions that help scale financial services businesses and technology solutions that help scale practices.
• Sound and practical business judgement.
• Intellectual curiosity and flexibility.
• Team-oriented and collaborative.

Responsibilities:

• Negotiate first-of-a-kind, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, payments and digital currency space.
• Provide full product life-cycle counseling for a variety of global prime brokerage, custody and derivatives related products, and practical advice on associated legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment.
• Stay abreast of and advise on digital currency and blockchain technology legal and regulatory issues.
• Lead and assist with complex and global cross-functional efforts, driving and ensuring cross-functional alignment with other stakeholders (Institutional Sales, Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, Compliance).
• Effectively collaborate with those same cross-functional teams and legal colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and close deals quickly.
• Proactively solve problems for the business as they plan and execute on an aggressive global growth plan, develop scaled strategies for addressing risk in business-centric ways and build commercial processes that allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly.
• Look around corners and creatively solve problems for the business as they plan, build, and execute their transactional and product roadmap.
• Be a business partner, not just a lawyer.