Senior Legal Counsel
Confluence
Cloud
Legal Counsel
Caxton Associates
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- - Proven track record through a fund cycle, including issues related to the establishment, structuring, launch, marketing and distribution of hedge funds
- - Negotiation of material fund contracts including IMAs, SLAs and administration agreements as required
- - Drafting and negotiating various trading agreements including brokerage, ISDAs, GMRAs and other agreements
- - Assisting on general corporate and governance matters
- - Negotiating SLAs, research agreements, employment contracts and service provider agreements
- - Liaising with fund boards, service providers, external advisers and external counsel as appropriate
Requirements
- - Top tier academics from a reputable university/law school.
- - Must have at least 3+ years PQE of experience in trading, buy-side experience gained within a law firm and/or in-house team.
- - Familiarity with current European, UK and US regulatory regimes that affect the business including MiFID II, FCA Conduct of Business, GDPR , EMIR, and Short selling.
- - Knowledge of a global business model and proven experience working on and managing multiple projects simultaneously in a dynamic business and regulatory environment.
- - Strong drafting and analytical skills and excellent attention to detail, written and verbal communication skills.
- - Ability to work in a fast paced highly dynamic environment and demonstrating commercial awareness.
- - Strong ability to analyze and convey levels of potential risk and safeguard the business from legal and regulatory risk.
- - A strong self-starter willing to work cohesively in a team-oriented environment and capable of working independently.
- - Operates with the highest degree of ethics and integrity.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
drafting agreementsnegotiationtrading agreementsfund structuringhedge fund marketingregulatory compliancerisk analysisproject managementcorporate governancelegal research
Soft skills
attention to detailwritten communicationverbal communicationcommercial awarenessteamworkindependenceethicsintegrityanalytical skillsself-starter
