Anchorage Digital

Senior Counsel, Trading

Anchorage Digital

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Provide strategic legal advice on new products and features for the institutional market.
  • Advise on money transmission rules, state lending rules, CFTC derivatives rules and SEC securities laws.
  • Draft and review compliance manuals, policies, procedures, disclosures and risk factors regarding trading and lending activities.
  • Review, draft and negotiate trading, lending and derivative contracts (e.g. ISDA, Master Lending Agreements, Master Purchase and Sale Agreements, Prime brokerage agreements).

Requirements

  • Highly organized with a bias for action, meticulous attention to detail and ability to produce quality work in a fast paced, high volume work environment.
  • Understanding of the regulatory frameworks, existing and proposed, that pertain to various digital assets business models.
  • Ability to apply traditional financial legal concepts to the digital asset space to solution for institutional clients’ complex business needs.
  • Transactional experience in reviewing various financial transaction agreements, primarily, lending agreements, prime brokerage agreements, ISDA/CSA and trade confirmations.
  • Experience working in a face paced start up / early stage company - highly motivated, self starter who takes initiative, with a positive attitude and willingness to take on any task (nothing is too big or too small).
  • Ability to think creatively and propose commercial and pragmatic solutions.
  • Active membership in the state bar.
Benefits
  • Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Committed to a welcoming and inclusive workplace.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
legal advicecompliance manualscontract negotiationtrading agreementslending agreementsderivative contractsISDAMaster Lending AgreementsMaster Purchase and Sale AgreementsPrime brokerage agreements
Soft Skills
highly organizedattention to detailability to produce quality workfast paced work environmentself starterinitiativepositive attitudecreative thinkingproblem solvingcommercial solutions
Certifications
active membership in the state bar