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Utilize your Derivatives experience with our major global financial services firm client in a New York-based full-time long-term secondment!!

Introduction Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

We are actively seeking New York-based attorneys with the following qualifications:

• 5-15 years of Derivatives experience at a major U.S. law firm or with an in-house legal department; MSFTA experience and exposure are critical.
• Deep experience with derivatives netting opinions.
• Ability to analyze FIA-ISDA industry opinions to determine sufficiency.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating derivatives transactions including OTC, equity, or exotic products.
• Experience implementing new regulations under Dodd-Frank with Clients such as Initial Margin.
• Experience and interest in business client advisory.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced business and legal environment.
• A commercial approach to legal issues in support of business objectives.
• A high level of professionalism and outstanding business judgment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be willing to support a hybrid work schedule, including three days onsite in Manhattan -based office.
• J.D. degree (attorney).
• Active bar in the jurisdiction of which you reside (attorney).
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with netting ideal.

Join our financial services client in support of the following responsibilities:

• Lead in reviewing a high volume of derivatives netting opinions for material changes in the law and regulations, and identify what updates are required.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of derivatives transactions.

Benefits

• Hybrid flexible schedule
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
• 401(k) with company match
• PTO and paid federal holidays
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)
• Access to professional development resources and learning and development programs.

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however, due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.