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The Role: Legal Counsel
The Team: The Legal Department at OSTTRA is a small but robust team and the position will report directly to the General Counsel of EMEA and APAC. We are a highly trusted and dynamic team that works in close partnership with the business to help drive maximum results.
The Impact: Together we build support protect and manage high-performance resilient platforms that process more than 100 million messages a day. Our services are vital to automated trade processing around the globe managing peak volumes and working with our customers and regulators to ensure the efficient settlement of trades and effective operation of global capital markets.
Whats in it for you: This in-house legal counsel position is based in our Gurgaon Office in India. Primary responsibilities will be to work on a broad range of corporate corporate secretary commercial regulatory privacy and transactional legal matters in all areas of OSTTRAs business. Lawyer will work closely with colleagues in the legal business front office and core infrastructure and support functions and report to the lead lawyer in India.
This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a global team based out of Gurgaon and to work with colleagues across multiple regions globally.
Responsibilities:
Manage draft and negotiate various commercial contracts including procurement and support real estate software licenses services maintenance web-based services consulting agreements non-disclosure agreements and other commercial agreements
Support sales and other business teams including shared services groups based in different regions globally and provide them with innovative business solutions.
Developing knowledge of multiple areas of the law including intellectual property and privacy and data protection to counsel internal clients on business and legal risks arising at all stages of the customer relationship.
Analyzing evaluating and providing input to product and client initiatives with a view to identifying and highlighting possible business and legal risks to management.
Assist with various projects for OSTTRAs post-trade services including client onboarding commercial and jurisdictional issues responding to regulatory requests and keeping abreast of post-trade regulatory developments in India
Provide company secretarial support or oversee third party provider of company secretarial support globally.
Liaise among business and various support and control divisions of OSTTRA including IT Tax Compliance Finance Risk and Operations
Engage and manage outside counsel
Act as key member of team of commercial/corporate lawyers based in London also with legal colleagues in the UK US India Singapore Sweden and Israel.
What Were Looking For:
Strong academic background / legal degree preferred or conversion
Qualified lawyer
3 to 6 years experience of in-house and/or large law firm experience in a transactional practice
Must have an excellent command of the English language (both written and spoken)
Excellent drafting and negotiating skills
Legal experience in negotiating and drafting commercial and other business to business technology and information related contracts nice to have
Experienced in data protection and commercial matters nice to have
Knowledge of data and software licensing intellectual property and commercial contract law required - preferred
Knowledge of the laws England and of the State of NY is also great
Experience with technology or financial services companies - nice to have
Proven ability to manage a variety of commercial transactions and special projects simultaneously
Ability to anticipate and respond to problems
Investigative analytical and strategic skills
Proactive enthusiastic self-motivated team player. Strong organizational skills
Youll be asked to work 2/3 days from the OSTTRA office
The Location: Gurgaon India
About Company Statement:
OSTTRAis a market leader inderivatives post-trade processing bringing innovation expertise processes and networks together to solve the post-trade challenges of global financial markets. OSTTRA operates cross-asset post-trade processing networksprovidinga proven suite of Credit Risk Trade Workflow and Optimisation these solutions streamline post-trade workflows enabling firms to connect to counterparties and utilities manage credit risk reduce operationalrisk andoptimiseprocessingtodrive post-trade efficiencies.
OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20 years: MarkitServ Traiana TriOptima and Reset. These businesses have an exemplary track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure and bring together an established community of market participants comprisingall trading relationships and paradigms connectedusingpowerful integration and transformation capabilities.
About OSTTRA
Candidates should note that OSTTRAis an independentfirm jointly owned by S&P Global and CME Group. As part of the joint venture S&P Global providesrecruitmentservices to OSTTRA - however successful candidates will be interviewed and directly employed by OSTTRA joiningour global team of more than 1200 posttrade experts.
OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20 years: MarkitServ Traiana TriOptima and Reset. OSTTRA is a joint venture owned 50/50 by S&P Global and CME Group.
With an outstanding track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure our combined network connects thousands of market participants to streamline end to end workflows -from trade capture at the point of execution through portfolio optimization to clearing and settlement.
Joining the OSTTRA team is a unique opportunity to help build a bold new business with an outstanding heritage in financial technology playing a central role in supporting global financial markets.
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Whats In It For You
Benefits:
We take care of you so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. Thats why we provide everything youand your careerneed to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay retirement planning a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: Its not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones too with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awardssmall perks can make a big difference.
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