Counsel, Commercial (Institutional)

About the Role

The Counsel, Commercial (Institutional Legal) role will be based in the U.K. working as part of the Institutional Legal team covering U.K. markets and professional trading clients including banks, brokers, hedge funds, market makers, corporates and other professional traders. The team consists of a small but highly experienced group of lawyers from a combination of traditional finance and fintech backgrounds. This role reports into the head of the team and covers institutional products including prime brokerage, exchange, trading and custody, derivatives and financing products.

We're looking for a lawyer with solid product development, regulatory and negotiation skills preferably developed within the traditional prime brokerage, securities financing, and/or derivatives sectors. A sense of curiosity, flexibility and adventure combined with the desire to make an impact at the intersection of crypto and traditional global markets is essential.

Key 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

About Coinbase

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We're building the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. In-person participation is required throughout the year, with team and company-wide offsites held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment.