Hybrid Counsel, Commercial – Institutional Legal

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About the role

  • Counsel, Commercial role at Coinbase for U.S. markets and institutional clients. Negotiating agreements and providing legal guidance on financial and digital products.

Responsibilities

  • Negotiate first-of-a-kind, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, payments and digital currency space.
  • Provide full product life-cycle counseling for a variety of global prime brokerage, custody and derivatives related products, and practical advice on associated legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment.
  • Stay abreast of and advise on digital currency and blockchain technology legal and regulatory issues.
  • Lead and assist with complex and global cross-functional efforts, driving and ensuring cross-functional alignment with other stakeholders (Institutional Sales, Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, Compliance).
  • Effectively collaborate with those same cross-functional teams and legal colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and close deals quickly.
  • Proactively solve problems for the business as they plan and execute on an aggressive global growth plan, develop scaled strategies for addressing risk in business-centric ways and build commercial processes that allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly.
  • Look around corners and creatively solve problems for the business as they plan, build, and execute their transactional and product roadmap.
  • Be a business partner, not just a lawyer.

Requirements

  • Licensed attorney with at least 5 years experience working in a financial services institution (e.g. bank, e-money issuer, payment service firm, broker dealer / asset manager) or in a law firm supporting such clients.
  • Strong negotiation skills and ability to review and negotiate financial agreements (e.g. prime brokerage, lending and derivatives documentation).
  • Strong history of commercial and transactional legal work
  • Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology.
  • Experience working and leading with cross-functional, globally located teams.
  • Familiarity with US and/or EU or UK regulatory regimes applicable to financial instruments.
  • Comfortable challenging the status quo and preconceived notions of what is possible.
  • Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, clear communication, and business pragmatism.
  • Top-notch analytical skills with experience owning projects from concept to finish.
  • Creativity, comfort and experience with oral solutions that help scale financial services businesses and technology solutions that help scale practices.
  • Sound and practical business judgment.
  • Intellectual curiosity and flexibility.
  • Attention to detail and focus on process ownership from start to finish.
  • Team-oriented and collaborative.

Benefits

  • Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Job title

Counsel, Commercial – Institutional Legal

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$183,855 - $216,300 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

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