Legal and Compliance Graduate Trainee Intern
Acheron Trading is a digital asset market maker providing liquidity, market-making, managed execution, and trading infrastructure services.
Projects
About Acheron Trading
Acheron Trading provides principal market making, designated market making, managed execution, and technology services through Command Station, a professional trading infrastructure and software licensing platform with consulting. Its services support digital asset issuers, projects, exchanges, market makers, and institutions seeking liquidity, execution, risk management, and market depth across centralized and decentralized exchanges.
Skills
About the Role
Conduct cross-border research on digital asset regulations, assist with drafting and reviewing commercial contracts, support regulatory filings and compliance records, review institutional KYC/AML documentation, assess corporate structures, and translate legal provisions into practical compliance guides for engineering and quantitative trading desks.
Requirements
- Be in the final year of a Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor program, or be a recent law graduate.
- Be preparing for, sitting for, or have recently completed the Singapore Bar Examinations Part B.
- Demonstrate legal drafting skills, attention to detail, and the ability to interpret changing regulatory guidelines.
- Show interest in digital assets, blockchain market structures, technology, and capital markets.
- Handle sensitive, proprietary, and confidential corporate data with maturity and discretion.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comparative research on global digital asset regulations.
- Assist with reviewing and drafting corporate and commercial documents, including NDAs, service provider contracts, and vendor agreements.
- Support mandatory regulatory filings, compliance checklists, and corporate secretarial registers.
- Assist with reviewing KYC/AML documentation and corporate structures for institutional counterparties, funds, and token foundations.
- Synthesize legal provisions into actionable compliance guides for engineering and quantitative trading desks.
Benefits
- Hands-on corporate exposure distinct from a traditional law firm apprenticeship.
- Dedicated mentorship from senior fintech legal professionals.
- Structured flexibility to support academic and Bar exam commitments.
- A clear pipeline toward a permanent, full-time Junior Legal & Compliance Associate role upon graduation or Bar completion.
Hiring Process
Send a resume together with a brief introduction about yourself to sean.lim@acherontrading.com. Applications should be direct; the company does not work with middle-men recruiters.
