Legal Counsel, Coinshares
Digital asset managers
Job no longer available
Digital asset managers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To expand access to the digital asset ecosystem while serving as a trusted partner for our clients.
Role
Who you are
- A UK qualified Solicitor (or equivalent) with 2+ years PQE in structured products (e.g. derivatives) and commercial law is essential. Previous experience in house at an asset manager, investment bank or Fintech company is an advantage
- Experience of advising on structured products (e.g., derivatives) is essential
- Experience of corporate finance, corporate governance and regulatory matters is an advantage but not essential
- Experience of Exchange Traded Products or Crypto assets would be an advantage but not essential
- Experience of advising on funds and offshore experience would be an advantage but not essential
- Willingness to take on a broad remit across the department, all business functions and areas of law is essential
- Established credentials as a legal project manager, able to run numerous transactions, including on a cross-border basis, and manage multi-jurisdictional matters is an advantage
- Experience managing external counsel is an advantage
- Resilient, outcomes oriented and adaptable to a rapidly changing environment in a cutting-edge industry is essential
- Ability to operate with ambiguity and navigate smaller, dynamic businesses or smaller entities within larger corporates is an advantage
- Outstanding communication skills both orally and in writing and ability to influence persuasively is essential
What the job involves
- Risk and Reporting:
- Assist the DGC in the preparation of comprehensive reports on the progress of legal and regulatory matters
- Work closely with the Compliance function, to identify risk and reputational issues, assessing the relative level of the threat and propose an appropriate course of action to the DGC
- Support all business functions in their understanding of and contribution to risk management and mitigation, particularly in light of the Group’s public listing and its continuing obligations
- Assist with the provision of training to the revenue generating and business support teams on key legal risk and developments to raise awareness around their legal duties and obligations
- Resources:
- Co-ordinate and manage legal inputs from third parties or internal resources to assist in the delivery of projects on time and to budget, ensure that external resources are delivered in an agile way, have relevant subject matter expertise and have had sufficient brief on the Group’s requirements
- Scrutinise legal fees and bill narratives, and ensure they represent good value for money and are commensurate with the tasks, risk level and the seniority of fee earner resource deployed
- Advisory:
- Work with the DGC to ensure the Group maintains the highest standards of legal, regulatory compliant and ethical behaviour, balancing company performance against corporate integrity
- Source and provide advice on a wide range of commercial legal matters including digital assets, financial regulation, investments, prospectuses, shareholder agreements, Group structure, acquisitions and disposals, venture capital, funds, exchange traded products, trademarks, IP, real estate and data protection
- Provide advice to the Group’s Capital Markets business in respect of its ongoing plans
- Provide legal analysis of and applying drafting skills to a wide range of contractual matters with autonomy (with support from the DGC as required), demonstrate an understanding of the wider commercial issues and determine when outsourcing is appropriate
- Support the DGC by providing solutions to practical legal issues (sometimes involving multiple jurisdictions and untested areas of law around digital assets and decentralised finance) in a time pressurized environment
- Assist on regulatory and governance arrangements, policies and procedures, and the implementation of these across the Group
- Partner with Compliance to monitor and highlight current and forthcoming laws which may affect or have impact on the business of any Group company
- Conduct legal research, examine, create and negotiate draft agreements
- Support the DGC to develop and maintain a legal database of templates, know how, legal policies and procedures with a view to creating efficiencies and progressing the legal infrastructure
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Coinshares is a digital asset investment house founded in 2013, aiming to bridge the gap between traditional financial markets and crypto markets. Using a mixture of financial expertise and artificial intelligence, Coinshares offer a suite of products and services for investors and traders.
Coinshares is headed by some of the brightest in financial trading, CSO Meltem Demirors being a major spokesperson for the benefits and evolution of crypto. As the market philosophy has changed, Coinshares employees are proponents of engaging with institutions on a financial level rather than disconnecting crypto from them entirely. With one of its founders being a former JP Morgan Strategist, it’s no surprise to find that Coinshare makes evidence-based decisions on trading, keeping their relationships measured and cautious.
This is a positive for Coinshares, evidenced by how the company has deftly navigated the financial turmoil of the 2020s. Despite bitcoin and ether falling in value over this period, Coinshares bought back shares from Nasdaq in June 2022.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Employee Development: We value continuous personal development and training through our partnership with Coursera aswell as offering sponsorship for qualifications such as IMC, CFA, and other recognised professional courses.
- Health and Wellness: CoinShares provides eligible employees with comprehensive and competitive health coverage and other wellbeing benefits.
- Financial Future: We aim to help make you and your families future more financially secure by helping you pursue your retirement goals and offering life and other disability benefits
Company HQ
Saint Helier, St Helier
Leadership
JM Mognetti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently Director at Komainu-Next Generation Custodian and XBT Provider. Previously Director at Global Advisors Holdings Limited.
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