Senior Counsel, Transactions

BitGo, Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital asset solutions provider in Singapore is seeking a legal professional to manage contracts and regulatory issues. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in a significant law firm, strong contract negotiation skills, and an understanding of blockchain technology. The position offers competitive salary and benefits in an innovative and dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Bonus

Stock options

Generous paid time off

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 4+ years of PQE experience in a top-tier law firm or in-house at a financial services or crypto company.
• At least 3 years of transactions experience at a law firm.
• Ability to negotiate in Mandarin is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate contracts for digital asset business.
• Draft bespoke contracts and terms of use.
• Manage legal and regulatory risks effectively.
• Support corporate governance.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Legal drafting

Understanding of contracts

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Knowledge of blockchain

Ability to manage multiple tasks

Education

Law degree from a recognized university

Job description

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

Responsibilities

• Negotiating contracts that are core to our regulated digital asset business, including digital asset custody, trading, lending and borrowing agreements, partnership agreements in APAC region.
• Drafting and negotiating bespoke contracts for first-of-their kind products and services with limited precedent.
• Drafting terms of use and DISCLAIMERS.
• Working closely and partnering with the sales, product, regulatory, compliance, product development and marketing teams.
• Helping with due diligence requests related to transactions.
• Managing legal and regulatory risks in a thoughtful and commercially practicable manner.
• Helping develop and drive legal contracting process and operations including with respect to workflows, customer contracting lifecycle, pipeline management and document retention.
• Supporting corporate governance.
• Escalating issues to senior team members as appropriate.
• Pitching in whenever and wherever needed, even when not directly related to responsibilities described above.

Requirements

• Law degree from a recognised university in the US/UK/Singapore/Hong Kong or any other relevant jurisdiction.
• 4+ years PQE experience in a top-tier law firm with exposure to international legal systems and ways of doing business and/or in-house legal experience at an international financial services or crypto company, ideally involving customer-facing sales, trading and custody.
• Must have at least 3 years of transactions experience at a law firm.
• A strong understanding of how key terms are used in contracts, and how they are used to allocate risks associated with a business arrangement.
• Ability to draft complex legal clauses and manage transactions with sophisticated institutional counterparties and outside law firms.
• Ability to balance multiple tasks in accordance with changing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to assess and balance legal risks against business interests.
• Good understanding of blockchain and digital assets.
• Flexible, “can-do” attitude and willingness to learn.
• Excellent English language and drafting skills. Ability to negotiate in Mandarin is a bonus.

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options.
• Computer equipment to suit your needs.
• Generous paid time off.
• colleagues and inspiring startup environment.