Member of Legal, Brokerage (Senior Counsel, Trading)

Anchorage Digital

15d

About The Position

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.

As a Member of Legal, Senior Counsel Trading, you will be an integral member of the trading solutions business and will be a builder providing strategic legal advice on new products and features for the institutional market. You will be a strategic legal advisor for Anchorage Digital OTC principal trading entity with respect to its spot, margin, derivatives, and API trading activities. You will be the trusted expert to advise on money transmission rules, state lending rules, CFTC derivatives rules and SEC securities laws.

You will be expected to draft and review of compliance manuals, policies, procedures, disclosures and risk factors with respect to trading and lending activities. You will also review, draft and negotiate trading, lending and derivative contracts (e.g. ISDA, Master Lending Agreements, Master Purchase and Sale Agreements, Prime brokerage agreements).

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Legal, Brokerage role:

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.
• You have an 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.

Nice To Haves

• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

Responsibilities

• Draft and review of compliance manuals, policies, procedures, disclosures and risk factors with respect to 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed