About this role
Role Overview
- 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.