Job Description
The Legal Counsel (Institutional Legal) role will be based in the US or UK working as part of the Institutional Legal team covering derivatives, international markets and professional trading clients. The team consists of a small but highly experienced group of lawyers from a combination of traditional finance and fintech backgrounds. The role reports into a director who leads the markets and financing legal team. Responsibilities include providing full product life-cycle counseling for a variety of global derivatives, prime brokerage, custody and financing related products, and practical advice on associated legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies. Negotiate novel, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties. Stay abreast of and advise on digital currency and blockchain technology legal and regulatory issues. Candidate will lead complex and global cross-functional efforts, driving and ensuring cross-functional alignment with other stakeholders and will proactively solve problems for the business as they plan and execute on an aggressive global growth plan.
About Coinbase
At Coinbase, their mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.