Senior Legal Counsel
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Posted on:
04-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
IMCs Legal team supports the firms trading and investment activities across the Asia Pacific region working closely with global colleagues in Amsterdam Chicago and Mumbai.
This new role sits within IMCs Sydney based Legal team and will play a key part in growing IMCs derivatives and structured products business supporting a rapidly expanding area of the firms operations.
The successful candidate will be a subject-matter expert in OTC derivatives who can combine technical legal expertise with practical operational insight to help IMC understand the business impact of derivatives across functions.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice across the full spectrum of derivatives trading products in the APAC and London markets including prime brokerage futures securities lending netting and collateral capital and liquidity requirements custody and clearing and reporting.
- Lead negotiations across all prime brokerage and OTC derivatives documentation including SDA Master Agreements Credit Support Annexes and securities lending and repurchase documentation.
- Advise on regulatory compliance and implementation of key derivative regulatory projects such as transaction reporting clearing and margin requirements.
- Lead in-house derivative projects globally including transaction reporting clearing and margin compliance initiatives collaborating with Risk Treasury and Operations teams.
- Advise on the practical and operational implications of derivatives regulation and documentation helping internal teams understand requirements and implementation impacts.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Qualified lawyer in a common law jurisdiction with a current Practising Certificate or eligibility to obtain one.
- Strong background in both private practice and in-house environments ideally within leading buy-side financial institutions asset managers or trading firms.
- Sound understanding of OTC derivatives including deep familiarity with ISDA Master Agreements Securities Lending Documentation and related regulatory frameworks.
- Able to work independently across time zones coordinating with global offices under tight deadlines.
- Proven ability to navigate and implement complex derivative regulatory projects and translate legal concepts into practical business solutions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence and engage across all operational teams.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class 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 Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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About Company
0-50 employees
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