Legal and Compliance Graduate Trainee Intern
Acheron Trading is a digital asset market maker that provides robust, tradable liquidity across a broad price spectrum, ensuring efficient price discovery and sustainable market depth for digital assets. They serve innovators and institutional clients building on centralized and decentralized exchanges worldwide.
About Acheron Trading
Acheron Trading provides liquidity and market-making services for the digital assets industry, offering principal market making (PMM), designated market making (DMM), managed execution, and a technology provider offering (Command Station) for professional trading infrastructure and software licensing with consulting. The firm emphasizes transparency and real-time execution to support efficient price discovery and sustainable market depth across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Its team is composed of domain experts in pure and applied mathematics, computer science, actuarial/risk management sciences, economics, consulting, accounting, and regulatory matters, with members having prior experience at firms such as Goldman Sachs, PwC, and Macquarie Group, and ties to academic institutions including Princeton, Cornell, and MIT. Acheron Trading's clients are primarily innovators and institutions operating in the digital asset markets across both centralized and decentralized exchange venues.
Skills
About the Role
You will conduct cross-border research on digital asset regulations, assist with drafting and reviewing commercial contracts, and support regulatory filings and compliance records. You will 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
- Dedicated mentorship from senior fintech legal professionals.
- Structured flexibility to support academic and Bar exam commitments.
