Legal Counsel

IMC seeks a Legal Counsel to provide commercial contracts legal support across various departments including Technology, Compliance, Trading, Finance and Human Resources. This position will offer general legal advice on a variety of matters, with its primary focus on reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial arrangements.
Your Core Responsibilities:

• Draft, negotiate, and review commercial contracts, including technology agreements, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements and other business and legal arrangements.
• Advise stakeholders of potential risks in contractual areas and propose risk mitigation strategies; provide creative and legally sound solutions for resolution of disputes with commercial business partners.
• Research and author legal memorandum regarding various emerging issues including technology, open source, and intellectual property law.
• Review existing policies and procedures of IMC, identify areas for continuous improvement; formulate and draft policies and procedures, as required.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Candidate must have a Juris Doctorate, top academic credentials, and be a member in good standing of the Illinois bar.
• Law firm experience or prior in-house experience in the financial services or technology sectors is preferred.
• The ideal candidate will be able to work independently under tight deadlines, and possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent management skills and business judgment with a capacity to make decisions and give advice, which demonstrates an understanding of overall business objectives and the risks/rewards of each situation.
• Strong research and writing skills, and a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a non-legal audience, are required.

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.
The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.
Salary Range
$135,000-$180,000 USD
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.