Member of Legal, Brokerage and Trading

The role

You will support the trading solutions business as a legal team member. You will draft and negotiate digital asset trading, prime brokerage, collateral and derivatives agreements, and work closely with trading, legal and compliance teams.

What you will do

• Work closely with the Associate General Counsel for trading solutions, business heads and their teams to grow the trading solutions business
• Develop and manage contract templates
• Partner with Compliance to develop guidelines, policies, procedures playbooks and staff training
• Create, draft and negotiate digital asset trading, prime brokerage, collateral, margin and loan agreements, ISDAs, confirmations and disclosures
• Drive work independently while leading medium-to-large projects and processes
• Convey relevant legal issues to internal stakeholders
• Be client facing while working with cross-functional teams on multiple projects

Required qualifications

• Strong understanding of laws and regulation for spot, margin, derivatives, platform trading and prime brokerage for digital assets
• Ability to draft and negotiate a wide range of trading and financial agreements
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks for digital asset business models
• 8+ years of transactional experience reviewing financial agreements, primarily lending agreements, prime brokerage agreements, ISDA/CSA and trade confirmations
• Experience working in a fast-paced start-up or early-stage company
• Highly organized, with attention to detail and ability to produce quality work in a high-volume environment
• Strong communication skills, internally and externally
• Ability to think creatively and propose commercial and pragmatic solutions
• Direct knowledge of crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians and payment rails

Nice to have

• JD (law degree)

Before you apply

• All new hires must complete an in-person onboarding process with physical identity verification

About the company

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance and settlement. It is home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S.