Description:
Since being founded in 2018, Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services.Led by Amar Kuchinad, Copper's Global CEO, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper's offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology – the gold standard in secure custody. Copper's multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody.
Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody, ClearLoop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering, connecting global exchanges, and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures, ClearLoop is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital.
In addition to industry-leading security certifications, Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A+ rated insurer, positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets.
Department environment
The Copper legal team are a collaborative and high energy group of smart, driven and intellectually curious lawyers and paralegals. We take our work but not ourselves incredibly seriously, tackling novel issues and supporting the business with focus, precision, and relentless good humor in a fast-paced environment. We know and support each other deeply as professionals and humans. We proudly hold a range of passports and qualifications and speak as many languages as we have team members—diversity on all levels is deeply valued - it is how we do our best work.
Key Responsibilities of the role
Working from our New York office with the option to partially work remotely, you will be assisting our Head of Legal, Americas in supporting Copper's executive teams, stakeholders in the business and the international Legal and Compliance teams in the US, Switzerland, Europe and the Middle East.
- Provide and collaborate on providing advice on a broad range of legal and regulatory matters as part of an expanding team focused on the provision of a wide range of innovative products to the US marketplace.
- Support our license application processes initially, engaging with regulators and collaboratively advising the management of our regulated businesses on both evolving
- and existing governance and regulatory requirements in the US. Your work will be focused on the intersection of banking/financial services regulation, institutional digital and crypto asset markets.
- Help the Product and Engineering Teams to design and roll out market leading and regulatory compliant products and services.
- Advise the business and the Compliance Team on all legal matters that involve or affect the US operations.
- Work with external counsel or consultants as and when required, including managing legal spend and invoices.
- Help with the development of junior lawyers and paralegals across the Legal Team.
- Deal with ad hoc queries of a legal nature that arise while operating a business in the US in real time.
- NY admitted lawyer with 3-5 years of practical experience in a fast-paced professional environment, such as an AM Law 100 firm or in-house at a financial services, market infrastructure or financial technology firm advising on product and regulatory matters.
- Specific experience in obtaining and maintaining regulatory licenses or registrations within the digital assets industry preferred.
- Experience with providing evolving regulatory and governance advice in a dynamic regulatory environment.
- Experience engaging with regulators at State and Federal level preferred.
- Broader knowledge of banking and financial services laws and regulations in the US.
- Ability to manage transactions and projects while keeping the US Head of Legal, the Chief Legal Officer and other members of the Executive Team informed in real time.
- Keeping up to date on digital asset industry regulatory developments relevant to the role and sharing knowhow as appropriate within the Legal team.
- Exceptional drafting skills and attention to detail alongside effective written and oral communication, including drafting and presenting advocacy presentations to regulators
- Some experience with technology, tokenization and US laws, regulations, regulatory
- bodies, regulatory frameworks and recent guidance applicable to crypto/digital asset transactions.
- Experience in managing budgets and other more junior members of staff.
- Paid Time Off - 25 days annual leave per annum in addition to local bank holidays. Employees also receive one additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
- Comprehensive health cover - medical, optical and dental benefits.
- Life Insurance
- Commuter Benefit Programme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.
If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.
Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So, bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer, please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process, then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.
