Legal Counsel (Financial)

Overview

In this role, you will support Susquehanna’s trading activities across multiple financial products by providing pragmatic, business-focused legal advice. You’ll work with the European legal team and senior stakeholders to mitigate legal risk while enabling innovative trading strategies. A key focus is negotiating and drafting master agreements and trading-related contracts in a fast-paced market environment. This position offers the opportunity to shape legal frameworks that govern exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, equities, and fixed income transactions.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate and review trading-related agreements, including derivatives, equities, securities lending/borrowing, market making, and financing arrangements
• Negotiate and advise on ISDAs and other industry master agreements
• Negotiate and advise on clearing, prime brokerage and trading venue agreements
• Provide legal support for new trading strategies, products and market initiatives, including risk identification and mitigation
• Support legal aspects of relationships with exchanges, clearing houses, brokers, clients and counterparties
• Contribute to legal policies, procedures and governance frameworks relevant to trading activities

Key requirements

• 7+ years PQE in financial services/capital markets law
• Demonstrable experience advising on 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 legal advice in a fast-paced trading environment

• negotiation
• stakeholder management
• commercial acumen
• ISDAs
• derivatives
• clearing

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