Position title
(Senior) Legal Counsel
Responsibilities
- Provide legal and regulatory advisory services in particular in relation to cross-border questions (e.g. MiFID, CRD, MiCAR, AIFMD and MiFIR).
- Provide regulatory advisory services regarding ongoing internationalisation projects with a strong focus on Europe.
- Draft, review and negotiate all kinds of agreements and internal regulations as well as provide corresponding advisory services to all business areas of the bank.
- Liaise with foreign regulators, external counsels and internally with the management and the board.
- Drive further legal & regulatory projects regarding strategic developments.
- Support new business concepts and put complex products and innovative business ideas on a solid legal framework.
Qualifications
- A law degree and bar admission (CH/EEA), additional qualifications (e.g. MBA, LLM) is a plus.
- Minimum 4-8 years of proven experience either as a lawyer in the financial services industry or as an inhouse counsel or in consulting.
- Substantial experience as a regulatory advisor in the field of implementing foreign regulatory requirements into a (Swiss/EEA) banking governance structure.
- Strong negotiation skills with a proven ability to lead contract negotiations and to deal directly with senior counsels.
- Profound functional knowledge in relevant areas of law, i.e. regulatory matters and banking law, contract law and web3 (Swiss and EU laws).
- Experience with Swiss and/or international contracts regarding investment products (e.g. funds, ETPs, certificates, structures products) as additional advantage.
- Conceptual thinker with strong analytical and technical skills as well as courage to provide clear guidance based on own assessments.
- Problem-solving ability and mental flexibility to find pragmatic solutions supporting the business with innovative products and business concepts.
- Goal and results oriented, able to work with minimal direction and providing hands-on and practicable solutions (with a good commercial business sense).
- English on a full professional working proficiency level.
Job Benefits
- Join a young and fast-moving scale up and digital asset bank with agile working environment and fast decision cycles
- Freedom to own your decisions and take responsibility, full ownership of your function
- An amazing, diverse, highly skilled, international and motivated team of professionals
- Being at the forefront of regulatory innovation in the FinTech/DLT sector
- The chance to be part of a movement shaping the future of our world’s financial system
- The opportunity to deal with legal challenges related to traditional as well as new technologies
- Being part of the gateway for all legal and regulatory issues in a bank
Hiring organization
Sygnum Bank is the world’s first regulated Digital Asset Bank and a digital asset specialist with global reach. With Sygnum Bank AG’s Swiss banking licence, as well as Sygnum Pte Ltd’s capital markets services (CMS) licence in Singapore, Sygnum empowers institutional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks and other financial institutions to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Location
Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
Date posted
May 18, 2023
