Job Description

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.

Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world's major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.

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Purpose of Role:

The Legal Counsel will primarily support the client documentation team in North America working closely with senior counsel and develops into areas of greater responsibility.

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.

The Legal Department supports functional areas across Marex with timely, focused, practical legal services.

Responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and negotiate client-facing contracts supporting multiple business lines including: prime brokerage, ISDA, OTC swaps documentation, securities lending, repurchase, foreign exchange and futures products by drafting, negotiating, editing, evaluating, and advising on client-facing agreements, including:
  • ISDA Master Agreements, Schedules, and Credit Support Annexes
  • Repurchase Agreements (sponsored and non-sponsored)
  • Master Securities Lending Agreements
  • Futures & Options Execution and Clearing Agreements
  • Prime Brokerage Agreements, including related custody agreements
  • Trade Confirmations
  • Authorized Participant Agreements
  • And ancillary documents, like parent guarantees and credit agreements.
    

• Contribute to maintaining, updating and revising new and existing client-facing agreements, amendments, and terminations.
• Effectively report the status of areas of responsibility on a regular basis to manager.
• Liaise with sales and onboarding teams to effectively and efficiently accomplish tasks.
• Distil complex legal issues into workable frameworks or reference guides for sales and onboarding teams.
• Collaborate and influence stakeholders through oral and written communications.
• Collaborate on and contribute to other projects within the Legal Department as needed.
• Ensuring compliance with the company's regulatory requirements with the rules of the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
  • At all times complying with Marex's Code of Conduct.
  • To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
  • To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
  • To escalate risk events immediately.
  • To provide input to risk management processes, as required

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time

Competencies, Skills and Experience :

Competencies

• An approachable, collaborative, self-efficient team player who is a positive influence on the work environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity.
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment.
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
  

Skills and Experience

• JD/LLM from an accredited US law school and admission to a state bar.
• Degree in business administration, finance, economics or similar discipline is preferred.
• At least one to three years' experience working in a bank or other financial services environment focused on reviewing some or all relevant client-facing agreements.
• Prior experience in financial services law with a focus on hedge funds, mutual funds, and managed accounts
• Exposure to cross-border concerns and clients in a variety of jurisdictions is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to break down complex, interrelated legal documentation for business stakeholders into useful, actionable items.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
  

Salary Range: $175,000 to $225,000 per year and eligible for a discretionary bonus 

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Company Values:

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

Respect –Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.

Integrity
– Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.

Collaborative
– We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.

Developing our People
– Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.

Adaptable and Nimble
– Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client's various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.

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