Legal Counsel Paternity Cover (Group Legal)

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