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About the Role
This role sits within the European legal team and focuses on supporting trading activities across a broad range of financial products, including exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, equities, and fixed income products. The position requires the ability to interact with all levels of management and provide practical, independent legal advice.
Responsibilities
- Draft, negotiate, and review agreements related to trading activities, including derivatives, securities lending, market making, and financing.
- Negotiate and advise on industry-standard agreements, including ISDAs.
- Negotiate and advise on clearing, prime brokerage, and trading venue agreements.
- Provide legal support for new trading strategies, products, and market initiatives.
- Identify and mitigate legal risks.
- Support legal aspects of relationships with exchanges, clearing houses, brokers, and counterparties.
- Contribute to legal policies, procedures, and governance frameworks.
Requirements
- 7+ years of post-qualification experience in financial services or capital markets law.
- Demonstrable experience advising on the trading of financial instruments.
- Strong experience negotiating and working with industry master agreements.
- Experience in a trading firm, investment bank, or top-tier law firm advising financial institutions.
- Excellent negotiation, drafting, and stakeholder management skills.
- Commercially minded with the ability to provide practical, business-focused advice in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
- Financial services law
- Capital markets law
- Derivatives law
- Securities law
- Contract negotiation
- Legal drafting
- Stakeholder management
- Risk mitigation
Experience Level
- 7+ years PQE
About the Company
- Susquehanna is a firm focused on trading activities across a broad range of financial products.