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Senior Legal Counsel Corporate / Commercial
Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel Corporate / Commercial to join our Legal team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate is a fast learner who enjoys becoming an expert in a short time frame and is detail-oriented, flexible and proactive. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!
What you will do
As a Legal Counsel at Flow Traders, you will be deeply embedded into the business. You will gain extensive knowledge of our core business by partnering with key business units in Trading and Technology. You will also be in close contact with our Risk, Compliance and Business Development teams in Amsterdam as well as in New York, London, Milan, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Cluj-Napoca.
In the first weeks you will be given the opportunity to understand the different parts of the company through our Flow Academy onboarding sessions. You will also see a variety of legal agreements ranging from authorized participant and market maker agreements to broker agreements. After a short period of time, you will be expected to work independently on reviewing and negotiating the agreements. You will be given the opportunity to deliver pragmatic and effective advice and solutions to the business directly yourself and work independently.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Negotiation / drafting / reviewing and advising on a wide variety of topics / legal agreements ranging from:
- Commercial contracts
- IT/Data agreements
- M&A / investementdriven projects
- Connectivity (Datalines/RF)
- HR/Recruitment
- Real Estate
- Intragroup agreements
- Employee share plans
- Dividend flows
- NDAs
- Collaborating and building strong working relationships with Trading, Technology, Risk and Operations, Regulatory Compliance and business development departments
- Co-developing standard operating procedures, templates and policies for the Legal Department
- Preferably will also act as DPO (GDPR)
A day in the life
The morning starts with catching up on e-mails that came in overnight from our offices in New York, London, Singapore and Hong Kong and some early emails that came in from our other European offices; these offices may need your legal assistance reviewing documentation and/or requesting specific advice for their business needs.
The rest of the day is different every day; one day you may be working on an authorized participant agreement and platform access documentation. Another day you may be reviewing a prime broker agreement, (reverse) give-up agreement and terms of business for the onboarding of counterparties and alike.
Before you start your review, you will have a chat with the relevant department(s) to clarify what type of relationship we, as Flow Traders, anticipate to set up, what the commercial drivers are and what the impact on the business is. You discuss with the business owner how to take this mutual work product forward. You have autonomy to guide that process in a manner that you feel is most efficient. This may be by setting up a call with the counterparty together with Trading, Risk or business development teams or any other way to get the envisaged relationship to the finish line.
In non-Covid-19 times, you may head to the gym or walk to the bar and have a drink or play some pool with your colleagues. Currently, these activities have been replaced by virtual team drinks, company-wide bingo, virtual cocktail sessions and many more.
What you need to succeed
- 5+ years of experience at an international law firm or relevant industry experience at a financial markets / legal finance team of a bank / trading firm / investment firm may also be considered
- Dutch, American or British Law Degree
- Affinity with financial markets
- Experience in negotiation of a wide variety of commercial, investment and M&A contracts and documents
- Excellent attention to detail
- A proactive and flexible personality
- Proven analytical skills and the ability to translate between legal, commercial / technical implications quickly without being affected by (time) pressure
- A fast learner that enjoys becoming an expert in a short time frame
- A detail oriented, flexible and proactive personality
What we offer
We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:
- Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Our own company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
- In-house Bar and Lounge with an arcade, table tennis, billiards table and game consoles
- Daily catered lunch, amazing coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
- Weekly chair massages
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the Year End Party
- Global rotations between our offices worldwide
- and more!
As we are unable to invite you over to our office, we would like to give you a virtual office tour .