Legal Counsel - Capital Markets - European Union (EU)

This role is for a Legal Counsel specializing in Capital Markets within the European Union, advising on legal and regulatory matters for products and services. You will serve as the Legal Team’s expert on EU Investment Firm regulations, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks.

Overview

Department

Legal

Job type

Full time

Compensation

Salary not specified

Location

Saint Julian's, Malta, Southern Europe

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About the Role

The Legal Team provides legal and regulatory advice, ensuring all products and services are compliant with local regulations while also meeting customer needs. The team interfaces externally with regulators and service providers to demonstrate compliance with applicable law and regulation. This role reports to the Global Head of Capital Markets, Legal and works closely with the Legal Team in the EU. The primary focus is to serve as the Legal Team’s expert on laws and regulations applicable to EU Investment Firms and the products offered throughout the EU. You will provide proactive, solution-oriented legal and regulatory guidance to multiple stakeholders to enable the development and launch of products and services in a way that meets obligations as well as customer needs. This involves working cross-functionally to identify, analyze, and mitigate legal and regulatory risks (while maximizing commercial opportunities) related to the introduction of new products and services. You will also represent the company on a variety of topics before regulators, financial partners, and other external audiences.

Responsibilities

You will be part of the Legal Team handling legal and regulatory matters for the Investment Firm based in the EU.

Expertise in the following regulations, including their interaction in the EU and on a cross-border basis, will be key for this role: Markets In Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID); Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR); Investment Firms Regulation and Directive (IFR/IFD); the Regulation on Market Abuse (MAR), and Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

Focus on legal and regulatory matters involving a diverse range of financial instruments, including derivatives, and the regulatory requirements of such financial instruments, including access, disclosures, and trade flows.

Lead the processes for maintaining Investment Firm license and passporting under MiFID and other applicable laws and regulations.

Contribute to the process of maintaining the authorisation as crypto asset service provider under MiCA regulation.

Assist with continued compliance with MiCA, working across the enterprise in order to deliver projects under high priority deadlines.

Draft, review, and update policies/procedures and terms and conditions and other rules related to the trading of MiFID-regulated products.

Assisting in drafting, reviewing and updating policies/procedures and terms and conditions and other rules related to the trading of MiCA-regulated products.

Represent and lead the communication on a variety of topics with NCAs, ESMA, and other relevant regulators.

Reviewing marketing and sales literature, presentations, and other educational materials for compliance with applicable MiFID and MiCA laws and regulations.

Work with external counsel to ensure our arrangements comply with relevant law and regulation in jurisdictions where we operate.

Requirements

Qualified/licensed lawyer with at least 5 to 10 years of experience in financial product legal and regulatory work handling issues for MiFID-regulated clients in a major law firm or as a licensed MiFID entity.

Excellent knowledge of EU financial law (MiFID, EMIR, IFR, IFD, MAR, etc.) and track record of maintaining license under these frameworks.

Familiarity with industry practices and professional standards.

Experience implementing markets and traditional finance rules in the EU and on a cross-border basis with the U.S.

Familiarity with MiCA and willingness to work across the legal team on this new regulation.

Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.

Strong organizational/project management skills, ability to handle high volume and balance competing demands.

Ability to develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders.

Willingness to accommodate calls and meetings with different time zones when required.

Able to identify problems, issues and able to propose solutions.