Senior Legal Counsel

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We drive the transformation of the financial markets. That’s why we invest in bright minds, in their ideas, knowledge and development. We do that by combining our best sides.

If you would like to find out why stability makes us so agile, why experience makes us so curious and why empathy makes us so impactful, apply now for the position of

Senior Legal Counsel

Zurich | 80-100% | Reference 2564

SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), a company owned by the Swiss Stock Exchange, is building the first market infrastructure in the world to offer a fully integrated end to end trading, settlement and custody service for digital assets. If you'd like to work in a highly collaborative team with a real sense of purpose, then SDX is the right place to be. 
 
We are looking to hire a highly motivated, Swiss trained legal counsel to augment our existing team based in Zurich. This role represents a fantastic opportunity to join the firm at an exciting time in our journey to build the world's first regulated digital market infrastructure. 

What You Will Do
  • Prove practical legal advice and support in day-to-day business, in particular financial markets, contract, corporate and securities law 
  • Maintaining up to date knowledge of relevant laws, regulations and policies, and to pro-actively engaging with and contributing to the team horizon scanning process 
  • Negotiate, draft and review commercial agreements and provide legal advice on a variety of transactional matters, also providing oversight to external counsel 
  • Advise and participate in cross border joint venture transactions and corporate M&A activities 
  • Support in the development and implementation of the legal framework of SIX Digital Exchange 
  • Contribute to team-based design of new products and services
What You Bring
  • Qualified to practice law in Switzerland and having sat the Swiss Bar examinations 
  • Experience of working within a prominent Swiss law firm together with several years experience in an in-house position 
  • Knowledge of the financial services sector, particularly surrounding M&A activities and cross border JV agreements is highly desirable 
  • An appreciation of digital asset, blockchain, distributed ledger and crypto custody technologies 
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills 
  • Deep commercial/pragmatic sense and understanding of business needs

 
 
 

What We Offer

Flexible Work Models
We trust our employees – that’s why you can arrange your work-from-home and in-office times with the team flexibly.

Personal Development Programs
You can periodically attend training sessions, in-house classes, SIX Academy seminars, and mentoring or coaching sessions.

Agile Working Methods 
Whether through scrum or design thinking, we solve exciting tasks together in teams.

If you have any questions, please contact Simon Clarke.

For this vacancy we only accept direct applications.

Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking forward to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.

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