Senior Counsel, Transactions (Capital Markets)

Circle
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 230,000 - 297,500 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: professionalSkills: ["Communication","Proactive","Accountability","Judgment","Prioritization"]

Advise Circle’s global capital markets business on complex crypto and institutional transactions, partnering with business development and cross-functional deal teams. Structure, draft, and negotiate exchange, market maker, liquidity, collateral, and tokenized collateral agreements, while supporting go-to-market efforts for Arc. Build contract templates and contracting workflows, provide practical legal guidance as crypto markets evolve, and ensure stakeholders are aligned across legal, regulatory, tax, and accounting implications.

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Senior Counsel, Transactions (Capital Markets)

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Job Summary

Advise Circle’s global capital markets business on complex crypto and institutional transactions, partnering with business development and cross-functional deal teams. Structure, draft, and negotiate exchange, market maker, liquidity, collateral, and tokenized collateral agreements, while supporting go-to-market efforts for Arc. Build contract templates and contracting workflows, provide practical legal guidance as crypto markets evolve, and ensure stakeholders are aligned across legal, regulatory, tax, and accounting implications.
Location: New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as a trusted legal partner to the capital markets business development team for crypto exchange partnerships, market maker agreements, and institutional capital markets transactions globally.
  • •Structure, negotiate, and draft complex crypto, fintech, and capital markets agreements, including exchange listing/integration, liquidity provision, co-funding, credit/collateral arrangements, and USYC tokenized collateral transactions.
  • •Support Arc’s capital markets go-to-market by drafting and negotiating agreements with exchanges, liquidity providers, validators, and institutional partners for lending, borrowing, FX, and tokenized asset use cases.
  • •Create and expand contract templates and playbooks for capital markets transaction types to improve speed and consistency across the deal pipeline.
  • •Provide practical transactional advice and contract interpretation to support deal execution while staying current on developments in crypto capital markets, digital assets, tokenization, stablecoins, and blockchain infrastructure.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 297,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of legal experience in capital markets, crypto, or financial services.
  • •3+ years of experience at a top-tier law firm.
  • •J.D. (or foreign equivalent) and active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
  • •Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex crypto, fintech, and capital markets agreements (exchange, market maker, liquidity provision, collateral, and digital asset transactions).
  • •Familiarity with TradFi capital markets concepts (derivatives, structured products, collateral management, and market infrastructure) and how they intersect with digital assets and blockchain ecosystems.
Experience:10+ yearsCryptoCapital marketsFintechDigital assetsBlockchainStablecoins
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:CommunicationProactiveAccountabilityJudgmentPrioritization
Licenses:U.S. State Bar
Tech Stack:ChatGPTSlackApple macOSGSuiteUSDCArcLayer-1TokenizationStablecoins

Company Brief

Circle
Provides blockchain-based financial infrastructure and stablecoins (notably USDC and EURC) and payment solutions for enterprises, developers, and financial institutions to enable programmable money and global payments.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2013
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