Overview
This role involves providing hands-on legal support for institutional products across UK and international markets, including prime brokerage, exchange, trading, custody, derivatives, and financing. The legal team consists of experienced lawyers from traditional finance and fintech backgrounds working with banks, brokers, hedge funds, market makers, and other professional trading clients. The position focuses on commercial legal work that enables the building and scaling of first-of-a-kind institutional products at the intersection of crypto and traditional global markets.
Responsibilities
- Negotiate highly tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in finance, payments, and digital asset sectors, including prime brokerage, lending, and derivatives documentation.
- Manage full product life-cycle negotiations for institutional products, advising on legal issues, risks, complex agreement structures, and company policies within a compliance-oriented environment.
- Lead cross-functional efforts involving Institutional Sales, Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, and Compliance teams to drive alignment and close deals.
- Develop scalable commercial processes and risk frameworks to support aggressive global growth plans.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor or barrister (England & Wales) or licensed attorney with 5+ years of experience at a financial services institution (such as a bank, e-money issuer, broker-dealer, or asset manager) or at a law firm advising such clients.
- Proven experience negotiating and drafting institutional financial agreements, including prime brokerage, securities financing, and/or derivatives documentation (e.g., ISDA, GMSLA, futures agreements).
- Experience managing full life-cycle negotiations for trading, custody, or financing products, including advising on legal risk and commercial structuring.
- Familiarity with UK and/or EU regulatory regimes applicable to financial instruments, with the ability to navigate cross-border legal and regulatory considerations.
- Experience leading legal workstreams across globally distributed, cross-functional teams involving Sales, Product, Engineering, and Compliance stakeholders.
- Responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual base salary range: £99,360—£110,400 GBP (excluding equity and bonus).
- Total compensation may include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Additional Information
- Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
- Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- US applicants should be aware of employee rights and E-Verify participation.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities upon request.
- The organization uses AI tools for initial screening interviews and interview note transcription but does not use AI to make employment decisions.
Location
This is a remote-first position with quarterly in-person working sessions ("surges"). The role requires overlap with UK working hours and involves international markets.