Senior Legal Counsel

Posted:
4/7/2025, 12:31:38 AM

Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Legal & Compliance

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate . Maven continues to scale its operations while preserving the dynamic energy and innovative culture of a start-up, but without the associated risks.

Senior Legal Counsel Responsibilities:

  • Providing legal support and advice to local senior management and Group General Counsel on relevant legal issues for APAC and EU (non-UK) jurisdictions
  • Assisting and dealing with trading matters e.g. reviewing trading agreements and liaising with relevant counterparties when appropriate
  • Negotiating and reviewing commercial agreements such as data agreements, service agreements and terms of business
  • Advising on the interpretation and assisting in the implementation of new regulation and legislation where relevant and working closely with the relevant teams
  • Assisting with new projects including, the launch of new business lines where relevant to your region and globally where resource is needed (currently DORA and EU AI Act)
  • Managing contentious work and other legal-related risks
  • Dealing with any other non-trading related legal and contractual issues such as employment related issues, drafting local policies and assisting with local governance requirements and corporate filings, confidentiality agreements, property law, data privacy
  • Managing a paralegal within the team
  • Overseeing shareholder operations, working with the group legal team
  • Where necessary, liaising with external counsel on any of the above;
  • Working with the Local HR/Finance and other teams to ensure corporate compliance with various corporate disclosures as they arise
  • Keeping up to date with current changes on all relevant areas of laws and contributing to the enhancement of the knowledge of the company’s legal function

 

What we offer:

  • A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
  • The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
  • Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
  • A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact