Senior Trading Agreements Counsel

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity Division (IED) seeks an Executive Director to join its Risk Management team, responsible for the negotiation, drafting, and execution of trading agreements with institutional clients.

The role requires a strong analytical thinker with the ability to assess complex client negotiation requests across a broad suite of agreements, including but not limited to, equity derivatives, prime brokerage, securities lending, futures, listed options, and OTC clearing

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience negotiating trading agreements at broker/dealer, buy-side firm and/or law firm.
• Strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail and ability to meet timing deadlines on multiple projects.
• Contract drafting experience.
• Ability and initiative to proactively communicate with senior business unit members.
• Comfortable working in open trading floor environment.
• J.D. required.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate full suite of trading agreements including, but not limited to, ISDA Master Agreements and Credit Support Annexes, Master Securities Lending Agreements, Prime Brokerage agreements, Listed Derivatives agreements, OTC clearing agreements, tri-party control agreements, master confirm agreements, confidentiality agreements, electronic trading agreements and other trading-related agreements.
• Liaise with IED Sales and Trading desks, as well as members of Firm's Legal, Risk, Credit and Onboarding teams.
• Client base includes hedge funds, mutual funds, pensions, insurance companies, banks, corporates and money managers.
• Act as primary point of contact with clients and their counsel for all negotiations. Interact with clients in connection with new industry rules and regulations.

Skills

Negotiation

Contract drafting

Communication

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Team collaboration

Education

J.D. required

Job description

Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity Division (IED) seeks an Executive Director to join its Risk Management team, responsible for the negotiation, drafting, and execution of trading agreements with institutional clients.

The role requires a strong analytical thinker with the ability to assess complex client negotiation requests across a broad suite of agreements, including but not limited to, equity derivatives, prime brokerage, securities lending, futures, listed options, and OTC clearing