Coinbase
We're building an open financial system for the world.
Digital Currency • Software • Payment Processing • Bitcoin • Technology
1001 - 5000
Legal Counsel, Institutional
August 3
🏢 In-office - London
Coinbase
We're building an open financial system for the world.
Digital Currency • Software • Payment Processing • Bitcoin • Technology
1001 - 5000
Description
• 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 • 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
Requirements
• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales with at least 2 years experience working in a financial services institution in the UK • 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
Benefits
• Target bonus • Target equity • Benefits (including medical, dental, and vision)
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