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Senior Legal Counsel – Capital Markets
Location: London – 4/5 days a week in office
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Legal Counsel to join a highly regarded Global Markets Legal team supporting Sales & Trading activities across the EMEA region.
This role will partner closely with front office teams, providing legal advice and strategic support across a broad range of rates, credit, derivatives and financing products. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to business stakeholders, helping to navigate complex regulatory requirements whilst supporting commercial objectives and managing legal risk.
This position offers significant exposure to senior stakeholders, complex cross-border matters and strategic initiatives within a fast-paced international financial markets environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide clear, practical and commercially focused legal advice to Sales & Trading businesses across EMEA.
- Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of documentation, including:
- Electronic trading agreements
- Exchange and platform documentation
- Clearing arrangements
- FX documentation
- Client-facing trading and financing documentation
- Advise on legal, regulatory, structuring and execution matters relating to Global Markets activities.
- Interpret and apply complex regulatory frameworks, including MiFID II, MAR and EMIR.
- Support new product launches, trading initiatives and business growth projects.
- Assess legal, regulatory and reputational risks and provide appropriate solutions and escalation recommendations.
- Monitor market and regulatory developments affecting Sales & Trading businesses.
- Support dispute management, remediation programmes and governance initiatives.
- Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across legal, compliance, risk, operations and front office teams.
- Contribute to legal process improvement, knowledge management and technology initiatives, including the adoption of AI tools within legal operations.
- Provide day-to-day legal support on transactional, strategic and operational matters.
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- Qualified lawyer with at least 8 years' post-qualification experience.
- Strong experience gained within a leading law firm and/or financial institution.
- Deep understanding of Global Markets, Sales & Trading and Capital Markets activities.
- Strong working knowledge of key regulatory frameworks including MiFID II, MAR and EMIR.
- Experience drafting, negotiating and advising on capital markets and trading documentation.
- Proven ability to advise on complex, multi-jurisdictional matters.
- Experience operating in a fast-paced in-house legal environment.
- Ability to provide practical, real-time legal advice aligned to trading and business timelines.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrable risk management capability and sound commercial judgement.
- Experience using AI-enabled legal technologies and innovative approaches to legal problem-solving.
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