HQLAᵡ Legal Counsel

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ABOUT HQLAᵡ

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HQLAᵡ is an innovative financial technology firm founded by financial market practitioners. Our vision is to accelerate the financial ecosystem’s transition towards frictionless ownership transfers of assets, and our core clients are financial institutions active in securities lending and collateral management. Our immediate goal is to improve collateral mobility amongst market-leading triparty agents and custodians. Together with Deutsche Börse, we created a multi-layer operating model which enables our clients to transfer ownership of securities across disparate collateral pools at precise moments in time, providing our clients with capital cost savings by reducing credit risk, intraday liquidity requirements, and operational risk.

‍QUALIFICATIONS

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• Qualified lawyer with at least 3 years of PQE
• Oral and written fluency in English
• Excellent drafting and communication skills, in both legal and non-legal contexts
• Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and partners to complete complex projects
• Confidence to interact directly with management, stakeholders and a sophisticated client base on important legal and regulatory matters
• Ability to prioritize work in a dynamic environment, with many projects running in parallel

• Experience with complex commercial and technology agreements is a plus, including:

  o Platform agreements (e.g. multi-party rulebooks)
  o Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
  o Licensing
  o DLT services
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• Governance – prepare board and shareholder resolutions and other materials and liaise with stakeholders
• Client onboarding – draft and negotiate revenue contracts and other key legal documents, coordinating as needed with strategic partners
• Product development – provide legal advice to the tech and product teams on updates to the HQLAᵡ platform
• Regulatory – ensure compliance with applicable regulations across the jurisdictions where HQLAᵡ operates, and monitor the regulatory landscape for developments of relevance

• Risk management – provide legal advice on policies and procedures and contribute to client vendor risk assessments• Track legal spending and manage outside counsel

• Handle other day-to-day legal work and queries for a fast-growing fintech