Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel London By combining global reach with deep local market expertise, Monex enhances businesses with a suite of financial solutions and FX market analysis to help optimise efficiency, mitigate currency risk, and protect margins in an increasingly complex financial landscape. Our corporate client experience is further enhanced by our dedicated sector expertise across a range of industries. Reporting to the General Counsel, the Legal Counsel's primary focus is to provide legal support to the Heads of Legal in UK and Spain. However, the Monex legal department functions with a global approach, with all members required to provide legal support to all group companies. Monex group companies are currently located in Europe, North America and Asia. The Legal Counsel will work closely with senior management, Finance, HR, Compliance, Sales, Credit Risk, and Treasury teams, as well as external counsel, to deliver strategic initiatives and day-to-day legal services.Key activities include all elements of a busy in-house global legal department, including contract review and negotiation, providing internal legal advice, representing the Legal department within Monex, coordinating with other Monex departments to support Monex's operational and strategic goals, instructing external legal counsel and vendors. Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities Facilitating efficient and business focused solutions for the business when faced with commercial problems and assisting with providing a superior client experience, within the permissible legal framework.Assisting corporate reorganisations, and corporate secretarial duties such as corporate filings, appointment and resignation of directors, updating the group structure chart, organizing and attending board meetings.Managing KYC requirements with our liquidity providers and vendors. areas of legal risk or regulatory requirements and Other related tasks and matters, including administrative where required. Business Knowledge / Technical Skills Minimum 4 years post qualification experience.Strong experience working within an in-house legal function of a bank, regulator, financial services firm or in a private corporate commercial legal practice.Good working knowledge of relevant UK and EU laws and regulations including MiFID, EMIR, FSMA, GDPR, the Companies Acts, and EU equivalents.An interest and strength in corporate governance. Good knowledge of corporate and company law, with experience in company secretarial responsibilities. Sound legal drafting skills.International legal experience either through education, training or employment. Preference given to EU legal experience.Experience of negotiating industry standard trading agreements and ancillary agreements, especially the ISDA Master Agreement and related agreements, across a variety of counterparty types.