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About the Role
Support Axiom clients with legal expertise in derivatives, trading documentation, structured products, and financial markets, with a strong emphasis on ISDA documentation, OTC derivatives, regulatory compliance, and counterparty negotiations.
Responsibilities
- Provide practical, commercially focused legal and documentation support on derivatives and financial markets matters, including OTC derivatives, structured products, trading arrangements, hedging transactions, and collateralised trading relationships.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on ISDA documentation, including ISDA Master Agreements, Schedules, Credit Support Annexes, Credit Support Deeds, confirmations, netting arrangements, collateral terms, and related trading documentation.
- Support negotiations with banks, asset managers, hedge funds, corporates, financial institutions, counterparties, and internal stakeholders on derivatives documentation, risk allocation, close-out netting, collateral, margin, and regulatory provisions.
- Partner with legal, trading, credit, risk, compliance, operations, treasury, front office, external counsel, and negotiation teams to support transaction execution, documentation remediation, regulatory change, and risk mitigation.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer, derivatives documentation specialist, or experienced ISDA negotiator with strong derivatives, financial markets, trading documentation, or structured products experience.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, negotiating, or advising on ISDA Master Agreements, Schedules, CSAs, CSDs, confirmations, collateral documentation, netting provisions, or related derivatives documentation.
- Experience supporting banks, asset managers, hedge funds, corporates, financial institutions, trading desks, treasury teams, or other market participants on OTC derivatives or financial markets documentation.
- Strong negotiation, drafting, stakeholder management, commercial judgment, and analytical skills.
- Ability to deliver pragmatic, business-focused support in fast-paced financial markets environments.
Skills
- Derivatives
- Trading documentation
- Structured products
- ISDA documentation
- OTC derivatives
- Regulatory requirements
- Counterparty negotiation
- Negotiation
- Drafting
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial judgment
- Analytical skills
Location
- Remote
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Remote
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Pension
- Professional development resources
- Learning and development programs
About the Company
- Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent.
- Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.
- Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement.
- Axiom's legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
- Axiom Global Limited is a company registered in England and Wales.
Equal Opportunity
- Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
- We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year.