Legal Counsel
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Job Description
The APAC Legal Team partners closely with domestic and international stakeholders to support our trading activities across the AsiaPacific region from our Sydney office. We play a pivotal role in enabling the firms success providing strategic legal guidance and ensuring regulatory excellence in a fastpaced highperformance environment.
As a Legal Counsel you will report directly to the General Counsel APAC and play a key role in advising on legal matters supporting transactions and managing corporate governance responsibilities for IMC in the region. You will work in close collaboration with our Trading and Technology teams as well as Finance HR Corporate Development Risk and Compliance to drive business growth and operational excellence.
You will also engage with our global legal counterparts in Mumbai Amsterdam Chicago and London ensuring alignment and best practices across jurisdictions.This role offers a unique opportunity to make a direct impact on IMCs operations with a strong focus on our Hong Kong and China business.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Advise on corporate general commercial financial services and technology matters across the Asia Pacific region in particular in Hong Kong and China.
- Draft review and drive negotiations on commercial contracts across technology trading employment and other business arrangements.
- Advise on contractual and other legal risks and propose risk mitigation strategies.
- Research and provide advice on various emerging legal and regulatory issues.
- Review existing policies and procedures of IMC identify areas for continuous improvement; formulate and draft policies and procedures as required.
- Assist with corporate governance including preparing for Board and Committee meetings of IMCs corporate and charitable organisations in the APAC region.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Tertiary qualifications in Law and top academic credentials.
- 59 years post qualification experience and admitted as a solicitor in Australia Hong Kong (or another common law jurisdiction); PRC law qualified (Desirable)
- Business level fluency in both English and Chinese (Mandarin) written and spoken.
- Strong legal regulatory review and writing skills in English and Chinese.
- Ability to work independently under tight deadlines be organised and have excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex legal issues effectively to a nonlegal audience.
- Broad understanding of corporate commercial and securities law.
- Law firm experience in a transactional role with clients in the financial services or technology sectors preferred.
- Ability to work across different jurisdictions and time zones and occasional travel to other IMC offices and trading locations.
About Us
IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cuttingedge research environment and a worldclass technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe and Asia Pacific our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative highperformance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Employment Type
Full Time
