Senior Counsel, Talos
EMEA
£120-140k
+ Stock options & cash bonus
2+ days a week in office
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
Open for applications
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£120-140k
+ Stock options & cash bonus
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Talos provides institutional-grade technology that supports the full digital asset investment lifecycle, including liquidity sourcing, price discovery, trading, settlement and portfolio management.
Role
Who you are
- This is a Senior Counsel-level role designed for a UK-qualified lawyer who enjoys hands-on work, ownership and building scalable processes in a fast-growing, global digital asset company.
- Must be licensed to practice law in the United Kingdom with at least five years PQE Experience and degree from strong institution
- Experience at a top international law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Experience drafting and negotiating SaaS and other technology transaction agreements
- Detail-oriented and resourceful, with excellent follow-through skills, and able to handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Proven ability to proactively, efficiently, and accurately assess legal business risks in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication skills
- An energetic, creative, and autonomous self-starter
- Prior experience working in capital markets, trading, fintech, digital assets, or high-growth tech companies a strong plus
- Expertise in FCA regulations, MiCA or MiFID a strong plus
- The role is based in London in a hybrid-friendly work environment, with flexibility to collaborate across time zones and locations
What the job involves
- Help accelerate the growth of Talos in EMEA and beyond as our Senior Counsel, EMEA, based in London
- You will be a key member of Talos’ global Legal team, partnering closely with our NY-based global general counsel on cutting edge legal issues for a new class of assets
- In this role, you will be a legal generalist tackling everything from negotiating commercial agreements to developing legal strategy for new products in an emerging industry
- You will act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, providing clear, risk-weighted guidance on complex issues across multiple jurisdictions
- Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, includingSaaS/platform agreements, data and technology licenses, trading agreements and key vendor and partnership contracts
- Partner with Sales and Business Development to structure commercially pragmatic, scalable deals that align with Talos’ risk appetite
- Provide risk-weighted advice on UK and EU financial-services and digital-asset regulation relevant to Talos’ business
- Monitor and interpret regulatory developments in the UK and EMEA (including evolving digital-asset frameworks) and translate them into actionable guidance for the business
- Manage and coordinate outside counsel in EMEA as needed, ensuring advice is high-quality, practical and cost-effective
- Create, implement and continuously improve effective and efficient legal processes, playbooks and templates suitable for a rapidly growing fintech company focused on digital assets
- Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership on important legal issues facing the company in EMEA and across the globe, contributing to strategic decision-making
Salary benchmarks
Our take
So far, the increasing institutional interest in the value of crypto-assets has been stymied by a lack of scaled, efficient, and secure infrastructure that these institutions could use for trade. Talos addresses the problem of digital asset trading between institutions, helping them to securely sidestep these obstacles into a fresh market with potentially huge returns.
The company provides a range of end-to-end, highly configurable tools to populate and facilitate the institutional crypto-asset market from just one platform. Talos' approach is helping to lower the bar for wide-ranging adoption of cryptocurrency, supporting the full lifespan of digital assets trading. That said, because the company is developing an entirely new asset class market, progress is accelerated, and competition may have a chance to overtake.
Promising for Talos was the interest of prominent investors, including PayPal and Fidelity, during their Series A and B funding rounds. The funds were used to create an institutional-grade service that would help shape and spearhead this developing market. More recently, the company has formed several significant partnerships, including with BlackRock, and acquired D3X Systems, the integration of which will enable its clients to design, validate, implement, and manage highly customised portfolios.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$105m
SERIES B
May 2021
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $151m
Company benefits
- Pension
- Bonus and stock ownership plan
- Medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible working
- Global offsites and team outings
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London
Articles
Leadership
Anton Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Anton Katz is CEO of Talos. He previously led trading technology at AQR, held senior roles at Broadway Technology, began his career at Microsoft, and holds a CS degree from MIT.
Ethan Feldman
(CO-Founder & CTO)Ethan Feldman is CTO of Talos. He previously spent a decade at Broadway Technology, began his career at Microsoft, and holds undergraduate and graduate CS degrees from Cornell.
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