IMC

Legal Counsel

IMC • $170K — $230K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctorate with top academic credentials and Illinois bar membership.
  • 5 years in-house legal experience focused on corporate law and entity structures.
  • Strong understanding of tax implications related to corporate activities and transfer pricing.
  • Exceptional business judgment with the ability to advise on risk-reward tradeoffs.
  • Proficient in research, legal drafting, and clear communication of legal concepts to non-legal audiences.
  • Ability to work independently under tight deadlines with excellent organizational skills.
  • Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Review, draft, and negotiate intracompany agreements on various issues.
  • Provide legal advice on corporate law and organizational structure.
  • Support the Finance team on tax implications of entity structures.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align legal compliance with business goals.
  • Research and prepare legal memoranda on intracompany issues and corporate law matters.
  • Negotiate contracts, including vendor, trading, technology, and consulting agreements.

Benefits

  • Discretionary bonus eligibility for full-time permanent positions.
  • Paid leave and insurance.
  • Access to comprehensive benefit programs through IMC Trading.
Full Job Description
IMC seeks a Legal Counsel (5 years' experience) to provide in-house corporate legal support in the U.S. for a multi-entity international proprietary trading organization. This position primarily focuses on researching, drafting, and offering legal advice as it relates to corporate law, entity formation, corporate transactions, intracompany dealings, and tax matters. This position also will provide general commercial contract review support as needed.

Your Core Responsibilities:
  • Review, draft, and negotiate, intracompany agreements related to a wide variety of matters including, among other things, services, cost allocations, transactions, credit, and resource sharing.
  • Provide advice on corporate law and organizational structure.
  • Work with members of the Finance team to provide support on tax implications related to the various entities' structures and activities.
  • Partner closely with Finance and other internal cross-functional teams to support business objectives while ensuring appropriate legal and regulatory safeguards are maintained.
  • Research and prepare legal memoranda on matters related to intracompany transactions, tax issues, corporate actions, corporate law, or any other topics as needed.
  • Review, draft, and negotiate contracts, including vendor agreements, trading agreements, technology agreements (e.g., SAS), consulting agreements, NDAs, leases, and other business, corporate, and legal arrangements.

Your Skills & Experience:
  • Candidate must have a Juris Doctorate and top academic credentials; must be a member in good standing of the Illinois bar.
  • 5 years in-house experience with concentration in corporate law, entity structures, cost allocations/transfer pricing, and a general understanding of related tax issues, preferably in a financial services, trading, or technology company setting.
  • Strong business judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to provide advice that reflects an understanding of IMC's business, commercial objectives, the regulatory environment, and risk-reward tradeoffs.
  • The ideal candidate will be able to work independently under tight deadlines and possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent research, drafting, and communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
  • Candidate must be willing to demonstrate leadership as necessary to bring stakeholders across various teams together to set clear expectations and ensure a project's timely completion.
  • Collaborative and effective in building relationships across diverse teams.

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$170,000-$230,000 USD

About IMC

IMC Financial Markets, sometimes referred to as IMC Trading, is a proprietary trading firm and market maker for various financial instruments listed on exchanges throughout the world. Founded in 1989 as International Market makers Combination, the company employs over 1100 people and has offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Sydney, Hong Kong and Mumbai. IMC is a technology-driven trading firm active in over 100 trading venues throughout the world and offering liquidity to over 200,000 securities. IMC makes markets in the major exchange-traded instruments – equities, bonds, commodities, and currencies – on 100 exchanges worldwide and is a significant liquidity provider on the NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, CBOE, BATS, and CME exchanges.
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