Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate . Maven continues to scale its operations while preserving the dynamic energy and innovative culture of a start-up, but without the associated risks.
This role will be a fixed-term position for approximately 3 months providing paternity leave coverage for our Group Legal team. Please apply if you can work from our London or Amsterdam office.
Legal Counsel Responsibilities:
- Providing legal support and advice to local senior management and Group General Counsel on relevant legal issues for APAC and EU (non-UK) jurisdictions
- Assisting and dealing with trading matters e.g. reviewing trading agreements and liaising with relevant counterparties when appropriate
- Managing contentious work and other legal-related risks
- Negotiating and reviewing commercial agreements such as data agreements, service agreements and terms of business
- Advising on the interpretation and assisting in the implementation of new regulation and legislation where relevant and working closely with the relevant teams
- Assisting with new projects including, the launch of new business lines where relevant to your region and globally where resource is needed (currently DORA and EU AI Act)
- Dealing with any other non-trading related legal and contractual issues such as employment-related issues, drafting local policies and assisting with local governance requirements and corporate filings, confidentiality agreements, property law, data privacy
- Where necessary, liaising with external counsel on any of the above;
- Working with the Local HR/Finance and other teams to ensure corporate compliance with various corporate disclosures as they arise
- Keeping up with current changes on all relevant areas of laws and contributing to the enhancement of the knowledge of the company’s legal function
Top Skills
What We Do
Maven implements both fundamental and quantitative trading & market making strategies across global financial markets, utilising only the group’s capital. We see ourselves just as much a technology firm as a multi-strat trading firm.
We aim to equip our traders with the best tools we can. We channel the advances in computer learning, processing power and network capacity into streamlining and improving all aspects of the trading operation, from front office to settlements. This is paired with meticulous and attentive execution and conservative risk management.
If you would like to learn more about working at Maven please visit: https://www.mavensecurities.com/work-at-maven/
