Legal Counsel, Regulatory and Licensing - Crypto Exchange

Legal Counsel, Regulatory and Licensing Role - Crypto Exchange

Responsibilities

• Reporting to a Legal Director of Regulatory and Licensing , or Senior Counsel, you will be an important member of the team of regulatory and licensing lawyers.
• You and your team will handle on-going licensing and financial regulatory matters globally.
• You will also be responsible for addressing regulatory risk within the company and introducing and implementing measures to mitigate and reduce such risk.
• You will help with the efforts to manage external law firms including their engagement, review of their work, review and approval of fees and on-going case-management to ensure the best results.
• You will assist with the legal teams efforts in regulatory and licensing matters including advising on crypto/financial licensing, product launches (including terms and conditions), regulatory compliance and on-going risk assessment work encountered by the company and internal stakeholders.
• You may represent the legal team before internal stakeholders to provide robust, commercially sensible, accurate and practical advice and to manage their expectations throughout the life of the matter.
• Support the Compliance team in their efforts to ensure regulatory compliance, including legal analysis on sanctions, AML and other risks.
• Assisting the legal work of the wider team including regulatory advice on commercial matters and drafting and reviewing licensing documents, responses to investigations and marketing materials.
• Engage in training for the company to increase legal awareness throughout the organisation on how to manage regulatory risk sensibly.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with 4-8 years financial regulatory experience.
• Experience from a reputable global law firm (common law jurisdiction) and reputable in-house organisation is a must. Prior experience within a regulatory body is highly valued.
• Located in APAC time-zone with Hong Kong and Singapore being preferred jurisdictions.
• Experience and knowledge of financial products (including spot trading, copy trading, margins, derivatives and options) and commercial transactions essential.
• Track-record of working on licensing and regulatory matters for traditional financial institutions and cryptocurrency organisations is highly preferred including interactions with the likes of the FCA, VARA, AMF, MAS, HK SFC and others.
• Knowledge of the latest policy and rules from standard-setting bodies such as IOSCO, European Union, and central banks.
• Start-up experience is preferred, especially demonstrable experience in handling complex legal matters in fast-paced and exacting situations.
• Regulatory experience including regulatory investigations, requests for information, sanctions work, AML compliance and corporate governance work is highly valued.
• Has the ability to work independently and make tough decision
• Hands on at work and can be independent in managing complex projects.
• Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English, fluency in Mandarin highly preferred to be able to work with regional markets.

Application options

- If you're interested in this role, click 'Apply' now. For further information and a confidential discussion, you can email Winston Tse at winston@tokalent.com