Sr Counsel
BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.
This global role will provide support to BitGo’s growing prime brokerage services outside the USA across APAC and EMEA.
You would own responsibilities that may include:
- Draft and negotiate a wide range of prime brokerage, trading, and commercial contracts, including master lending agreements, account control agreements, external client agreements, and more.
- Working closely with cross-functional teams to facilitate building, delivery, and marketing of new products.
- Supporting international expansion of custody, trading, settlement and related businesses.
- Managing legal and regulatory risks in a thoughtful and commercially practicable manner.
- Escalating issues to senior team members as appropriate.
- Pitching in whenever and wherever needed, even when not directly related to responsibilities described above.
Your experience and skill set will cover many of the following:
- Qualified in UK, Singapore or a comparable jurisdiction.
- 4-6+ years of related law firm and/or in-house legal experience at a financial services or crypto company, ideally involving customer-facing sales, trading and/or custody. Must have at least 2 years of experience advising or negotiating against institutional clients at a large law firm or bulge bracket bank.
- Strong understanding of the laws and regulation applicable to (i) transaction settlement, clearing, and securities lending, (ii) securities and derivatives regulation, and (iii) regulations relating to extensions of credit.
- Ability to balance multiple tasks in accordance with changing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to assess and balance legal risks against business interests.
- Interest in blockchain and digital assets.
- Flexible, “can-do” attitude and willingness to learn.
*salary and title commensurate with experience*
Why Join BitGo?
Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:
- Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
- 100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
- Retirement plan
- Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
- Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
*Benefits may vary based on location
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world's financial markets.
Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing