Litigation Counsel, Binance
Maternity Leave Coverage for 6 Months Fixed-Term
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
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Cryptocurrency exchange platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Binance's mission is to be the infrastructure service provider in crypto.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified lawyer in France with strong dispute resolution background, 3-5 years of experience
- Master of Laws degree from a top law school
- Knowledge of financial products (including spot trading, margin trading, futures and options) an asset
- Experience with handling disputes for traditional financial institutions and cryptocurrency organizations preferred
- Experience with handling regulatory inquiries, requests for information and investigation plus
- Interest in the cryptocurrency industry and its development
- Possesses solid legal technical expertise as well as sound business and people judgment sense
- Hands on at work and can be independent in managing complex projects
- Attention focused and rigorous. Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills
- In addition to native French, excellent command of written and spoken English mandatory
What the job involves
- Assist in handling ongoing litigations and arbitrations in jurisdictions where the business has operations, with a strong focus on France and other European jurisdictions
- Manage legal efforts in response to contentious inquiries, including managing pre-litigious and regulatory matters, encountered by the company and internal stakeholders
- Answer pre litigation claims from client, in particular in the context of AMF mediation
- Take charge of external communication with external counsels and negotiating with the opposition
- Provide proactive, in-depth, commercially sensible legal advice to all stakeholders
- Support in the development and implementation of legal strategy to reduce the risk of disputes while balancing against the organisation's overall business strategy
- Assist in negotiation of contracts for different business lines in the ecosystem, and support in a variety of risk management projects
- Be responsible for drafting and reviewing court, arbitration documents, liaison and settlement agreements
- Partner with cross-functional and regional teams and provide support on legal matters of varying complexity, sensitivity, and tangibility
- Provide legal business partner training and counsel non-legal associates to enable stronger legal acumen across the company
- Take prudent risks within the context of the overall business, and advise and implement solutions to address issues identified
- Provide administrative support to manage billing, legal contracts, corporate documents and other documentation
- General overall support to the legal team
Our take
Binance Exchange is one of the fastest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange platforms in the world, capable of processing over 1.4 million orders per second. The platform focuses on security, robustness, and execution speed - attracting enthusiasts and professional traders alike.
The Binance exchange provides access to hundreds of digital currency pairs, while maintaining security, liquidity and high-speed. The platform offers some of the lowest trading costs in the industry at 0.1% or even less through the use of Binance Coin.
The exchange strives to give its users access to some of the latest blockchain/DLT technologies with new cryptocurrencies being listed all the time. Binance are well placed to ride the wave of increasing interest in crypto. It is expanding its international presence, with the recent acquisition of Sakura Exchange BitCoin and GOPAX, engendering its penetration of the Japanese and South Korean markets.
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Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2017
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary
- Option to be paid in crypto
- Health insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Remote work for many roles
- Company sponsored holidays
- Team building activities
- And other various perks and benefits
- Learning and development programs
- Free language classes
- Relocation support
- International transfers mid-career
Company values
- Collaboration - We communicate openly.. We work as a team towards shared goals to build the ecosystem together
- Hardcore - We are results driven. We get things done. We are passionate and work hard. When we fail, we learn fast, and pick ourselves up
- Integrity - We are accountable for our actions. When we make mistakes, we fix them. We always act ethically. We never punch down
- User-Focused - We protect our users by putting our users' needs first and delivering quality service
- Freedom - We execute responsibly and autonomously. We empower those around us. Our team is diverse and we challenge the status quo.
- Humility - We accept critical feedback. We treat everyone as equals. We are modest about our success.
Company HQ
Ta' Xbiex
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Leadership
Changpeng Zhao
(CEO)Previously Head of Tradebook Futures Development at Bloomberg for 4 years and Partner at Fusion Systems for 8 years.
Yi He
(CMO)Previously Co-founder of OKCoin and Vice President at yixia.com for 1 year.
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