Legal Counsel - Financial Markets and Regulatory

IMC is seeking a Legal Counsel to join its APAC Legal Team in Sydney, Australia. This role is integral to supporting IMC's trading activities across the Asia-Pacific region, providing strategic legal guidance, and ensuring regulatory excellence in a dynamic, high-performance environment. The position reports directly to the Senior Legal Counsel, APAC, and collaborates closely with various internal teams, including Trading, Technology, Finance, HR, Corporate Development, Treasury, Risk, and Compliance. Additionally, the role involves engagement with global legal counterparts in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Amsterdam, Chicago, and London, ensuring alignment and best practices across jurisdictions.

Key responsibilities include advising on financial services regulatory, corporate, and technology matters across the Asia Pacific region, coordinating and negotiating financial markets and trading agreements such as prime brokerage and give-up agreements, and collaborating with the APAC Compliance team and Trading desks to address financial markets licensing and marketing requirements. The role also involves reviewing general commercial and technology contracts to support the trading business, building and maintaining stakeholder relationships, coordinating with external counsel across APAC jurisdictions, researching and providing advice on emerging legal and regulatory issues, reviewing and updating IMC's policies and procedures, and assisting with corporate governance, including preparing for Board and Committee meetings of IMC's corporate and charitable organizations in the APAC region.

The ideal candidate will possess tertiary qualifications in Law with top academic credentials and be admitted as a solicitor in Australia or another common law jurisdiction. They should have 6-9 years of post-qualification experience gained at a leading law firm and in-house legal department within the financial services or technology sectors, with a proven track record of negotiating and executing transaction documentation. Strong legal, regulatory review, drafting, and negotiation skills in English are essential, along with a detailed understanding of the legal, regulatory, and operational issues arising in financial markets. Exposure to multiple APAC jurisdictions and key regional regulatory considerations, with the ability to manage multi-jurisdictional regulatory matters, is required. Additional qualifications include proven ability to manage contract negotiations and counterparty onboarding, working knowledge of Australian AML/CTF requirements and sanctions regimes relevant to APAC trading, proficiency in legal technology and AI tools, and the ability to work independently under tight deadlines with excellent interpersonal skills. Additional language skills relevant to the APAC region are highly desirable.

IMC offers a collaborative and innovative work environment where researchers, traders, and engineers work together to develop proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. The company is committed to continuous improvement and provides opportunities for professional growth and development. Employees are encouraged to contribute to the firm's success by providing strategic legal guidance and ensuring regulatory excellence in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, IMC provides liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using its own technology and capital, IMC builds proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. The company's researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.