Litigation Counsel - Europe at Binance - Apr 24

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Litigation Counsel - Europe


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Job Overview

Responsibilities:

  • Reporting to the Litigation Lead - Europe, be the main point of contact and counsel for ongoing litigations and arbitrations and enforcement procedures in the UK, Ireland and common law jurisdictions.
  • When needed, provide additional support to other European jurisdictions, through external counsels if necessary.
  • Manage legal efforts in response to contentious inquiries, including managing pre-litigious and regulatory matters, encountered by the company and internal stakeholders.
  • Answer pre litigation claims from clients, including on smaller issues as they arise.
  • Take charge of external communication with external counsels and negotiating with the opposition.
  • Provide proactive, in-depth, commercially sensible legal advice to all stakeholders.
  • Support in the development and implementation of legal strategy to reduce the risk of disputes while balancing against the organisation's overall business strategy.
  • Be responsible for drafting and reviewing court, arbitration documents, liaison and settlement agreements.
  • Partner with cross-functional and regional teams and provide support on legal matters of varying complexity, sensitivity, and tangibility.
  • Provide legal business partner training and counsel non-legal associates to enable stronger legal acumen across the company.
  • Take prudent risks within the context of the overall business, and advise and implement solutions to address issues identified.
  • Provide administrative support to manage billing, legal contracts, corporate documents and other documentation.
  • General overall support to the legal team.

Requirements:

  • Common law Qualified lawyer (UK or Ireland) with strong dispute resolution background, min 6 PQE.
  • Exposure to the financial, banking or crypto sector is a must.
  • Experience with handling regulatory inquiries, requests for information and investigations a plus.
  • Interest in the cryptocurrency industry and its development.
  • Proactive and self starter. Able to handle stress, have higher tolerance to dynamism and can move fast.
  • Ability to work independently and report matters efficiently.
  • Possesses solid legal technical expertise as well as sound business and people judgment sense.
  • Hands on at work and can be independent in managing complex projects, equally can handle smaller claims.
  • Attention focused and rigorous. Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills.
  • Although the main scope of the role would be common law jurisdictions, a dual qualification, or a fluent speaker of French, Italian, Spanish, or Russian would be useful to support the rest of the European litigation team.

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