Counsel, Institutional Legal - Financing

The Legal Counsel (Institutional Legal, Financing) role will be based in the US or UK working as part of the Institutional Legal team covering US and international markets and professional trading clients including banks, brokers, hedge funds, market makers, corporates and other professional traders. The role reports into the head of the team and covers institutional products including prime brokerage, exchange, trading and custody, derivatives and financing products. Negotiate first-of-a-kind, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the institutional financing space with specific focus on our trade finance, portfolio margining, bilateral lending, agency lending, and collateral products. 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.