Vice President Legal
GSR is a global digital-asset capital-markets firm providing crypto market making, OTC trading, execution, treasury, derivatives, advisory, and investment services.
About GSR
Founded in 2013, GSR operates across digital-asset markets as a dealer, counterparty, and liquidity provider. Its offering includes market making across centralized and decentralized venues, systematic and high-touch OTC trading, algorithmic execution, treasury solutions, derivatives and structured products, digital-asset advisory, and venture backing for crypto founders, institutions, token issuers, and exchanges.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead and support strategic transactions, advise on regulatory and commercial matters, and draft and negotiate a broad range of agreements. You will oversee corporate legal functions and coordinate regulatory projects, registrations, exemptions, and outside counsel.
Requirements
- 4–7 years of post-qualification experience.
- Admission to practice in New York or another U.S. jurisdiction.
- Training at a top-tier law firm.
- Some in-house experience at a financial institution.
- Deal experience in corporate M&A, capital markets, financial services, and/or securities regulation.
- Ability to manage transactional, regulatory, and corporate work.
- Commercial awareness and project management skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support strategic transactions, including M&A, venture investments, and corporate matters, from structuring and diligence through negotiation and closing.
- Serve as a legal partner to regulated and investment businesses, including asset management, broker-dealer, and CTA activities.
- Draft and negotiate investment, client, commercial, and corporate agreements.
- Advise business teams on securities, financial-services, and digital-asset regulatory matters.
- Lead or coordinate regulatory projects, registrations, exemptions, and outside-counsel interactions.
- Provide commercially oriented advice on new products, transactions, and strategic initiatives.
- Oversee entity governance, filings, resolutions, NDAs, and vendor arrangements.
- Support emerging legal priorities outside the primary areas of coverage.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus.