Member of Legal, Brokerage and Trading Solutions
Anchorage Digital offers institutions secure and regulated crypto custody, trading, staking, and financing services.
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About Anchorage Digital
Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2017, Anchorage offers custody, trading, staking, and other services for digital assets, serving banks, fintechs, and investment funds. Anchorage aims to make it simple and secure for institutions to participate in the digital asset space.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Serve as Legal Counsel for Trading Solutions, providing strategic legal guidance from product discovery through launch, conducting regulatory research, establishing policies, ensuring compliance, and structuring, drafting, and negotiating agreements across digital asset trading, derivatives, financing, prime brokerage, collateral, margin, lending, settlement, ISDA, disclosure, and risk-factor matters.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of laws and regulations applicable to spot, margin, derivatives, platform trading, and prime brokerage for digital assets
- Experience creating, drafting, and negotiating digital asset trading, prime brokerage, collateral, margin, loan, settlement, ISDA, confirmation, disclosure, and risk-factor agreements
- Strong understanding of crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payment rails
- 8+ years of transactional experience reviewing financial transaction agreements
- Understanding of existing and proposed regulatory frameworks for digital asset business models
- Ability to apply traditional financial legal concepts to digital asset business needs
- JD preferred
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with clients and cross-functional teams
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic legal guidance from product discovery through launch
- Conduct regulatory research and ensure compliance across market infrastructure
- Structure, draft, and negotiate counterparty agreements
- Advise executive leadership on regulatory frameworks, reputational risks, and compliance obligations
- Coordinate internal teams and manage external counsel
- Develop and manage contract templates
- Partner with Compliance to develop guidelines, policies, procedures, playbooks, and staff training
- Lead medium-to-large projects and processes
- Convey relevant legal issues to internal stakeholders
- Collaborate with trading solutions, legal, and compliance teams to resolve legal issues and improve efficiency
Benefits
- Remote work