Senior Counsel, Transactions (Capital Markets) at Circle

<p>Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at <a target="_blank" href="http://circle.com/"><span style="color:#005cb9"><u>circle.com</u></span></a>.</p><p></p><p><b>What you’ll be part of:</b></p><p></p><p>Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we&#39;re expanding into some of the world&#39;s strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by <a target="_blank" href="http://careers.circle.com/us/en/#working-at-circle"><span style="color:#005cb9"><u>our company values</u></span></a>: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.</p><p></p><p><b><b>What you’ll be responsible for: </b></b></p><p><span>Under the direction of the Assistant General Counsel - Transactions, you will play an immediate and direct role in complex commercial transactional work, supporting Circle&#39;s global capital markets business — including crypto exchanges, digital asset market makers, and institutional capital markets partners — as well as Circle&#39;s Arc network, a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoin finance. We are looking for someone who is highly proactive, accountable, team-oriented, capable of managing multiple competing priorities, and who is excited to join a lean team that executes on a variety of novel and complex legal issues at the cutting edge of crypto and global finance. </span></p><p><br /><b><b>What you&#39;ll work on: </b></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Serve as a trusted legal partner to Circle&#39;s capital markets business development team, working collaboratively and building strong lines of communication across global deal teams — with a primary focus on supporting crypto exchange partnerships, digital asset market maker agreements, and institutional capital markets transactions globally.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Structure, negotiate, and draft complex crypto, fintech, and capital markets agreements — including exchange listing and integration agreements, market maker and liquidity provision agreements, co-funding, credit and collateral arrangements, and USYC tokenized collateral transactions — addressing legal risk in business-centric ways with the goal of strengthening commercial partnerships and advancing revenue opportunities.</span