Legal Counsel - Brazil
atBinance
Aug 21
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Binance is the leading global blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider whose suite of financial products includes the world’s largest digital-asset exchange. Our mission is to accelerate cryptocurrency adoption and increase the freedom of money.If you’re looking for a fast-paced, mission-driven organization where opportunities to learn and excel are endless, then Binance is the place for you.
Responsibilities:
- Support Binance’s Brazil efforts in considering, analysing and applying for any legal subjects such as local approvals, authorisations or licenses
- Drive the development and implementation of group legal strategy and contribute to the development of the organization’s general business strategy
- Proactively identify legal problems, solutions, and potential support needed to provide more strategic support to local teams
- Handle regulatory approvals, authorisation and licenses including related analysis and applications
- Assist in negotiation of contracts for different business lines in the ecosystem, and support in a variety of transactional and corporate governance initiatives
- Be responsible for drafting and reviewing legal documents and provide holistic risk assessment and suggestions to enhance business value while mitigating downside risk across multiple areas of the company
- Support the business teams in the launch and development of new products and services - navigating between the commercial and regulatory worlds
- Provide legal business partner training and counsel non-legal associates to enable stronger legal acumen across the company
- Be responsible for drafting and reviewing contracts and agreements and provide holistic risk assessment and suggestions to enhance business value while mitigating downside risk
- Anticipate and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current laws relevant to your own substantive area to provide strategic advice and foster compliance
- Identify legal framework developments, align and promote consistency of approach in legal matters between the internal stakeholders
- Take prudent risks within the context of the overall business, and advise and implement solutions to address issues identified
Requirements:
- Qualified to practise law in a Brazil jurisdiction
- Between 4 to 6 years of relevant legal experience at a global law firm, and/or as a corporate counsel at financial industry of a fast-paced technology company
- Regulatory experience with Brazilian Central Bank and ComissĂŁo de Valores Mobiliarios is ideal
- Possesses a very strong sense of team spirit and cross-functional collaboration
- Possesses solid legal technical expertise as well as sound business and people judgement sense
- Hands on at work and can be independent in managing complex projects
- Can develop relevant and creative solutions to meet current and evolving business needs
- Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills
- Excellent problem solving, analytical and organizational skills
- Excellent command of written and spoke English and Portuguese
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