Corporate Counsel

Job Description

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Legal team in New York as a Corporate Counsel, where you'll play a pivotal role in supporting EquiLend's dynamic and evolving global operations. Our Legal function is a trusted partner to the business, ensuring the organization operates with integrity, efficiency, and a forward-thinking legal strategy.

Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel, this is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative legal team to work on a broad range of complex and sensitive legal and business issues to give real-time analysis and practical advice. You may at times be under significant time pressure and must be able to manage multiple priorities across many parts of the organization, such as Sales, Product, Finance, and other internal stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

• Primary role will be to be dedicated legal counsel on complex financial SaaS/data technology-related sales contract drafting and negotiations.
• Be a strategic partner to the Sales organization to support all aspects of the sales effort
• Support emerging technologies and associated legal considerations, including Gen AI and data innovations.
• Train and collaborate with Legal Specialist team and RevOps legal support team on sales operational improvements and lead knowledge management practices regarding our sales contract templates and standards.
• Act as a global partner within a global Legal and Compliance team to the wider global Sales, Product, Finance and other internal groups, aligning with colleagues in UK/US and Asia to deliver consistent, high-quality legal support.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of relevant experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department, strong preference for experience in software/SaaS/data/technology subscription agreements. Experience in fintech or financial services a plus, not a must.
• Qualified attorney with active license to practice law in Ireland.
• Demonstrates strong contract drafting and negotiation skills, with a clear ability to translate business needs into practical legal solutions.
• Shows good knowledge of intellectual property, contract law, and preferably, information security and data privacy.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to partner effectively with business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Comfortable working autonomously but collaboratively, making decisions in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Displays sound judgment, integrity, and a proactive approach to problem solving.

Benefits

• Be recognized for your contribution through a discretionary annual cash bonus, linked to individual and company performance. 
• Work flexibly with the option to work remotely for up to 100 days per year. 
• Take time to recharge with generous annual leave, plus public holidays. 
• Access to Health Benefits starting from the first of the month following your start date 
• Save for the future through our 401(k) benefit with Equilend's contributions vesting from day one. 
• Compensation: The annual base salary range for this role is $140,000 - $160,000 plus a performance-based annual bonus. This range is a general guideline; final offers consider factors such as role scope, candidate experience, internal equity, and market factors.

About Equilend
Equilend sits at the centre of the securities finance industry. Since 2001, we've built the infrastructure that financial institutions rely on to trade, manage, report and analyse their securities finance activities. We connect 145+ firms across 30+ markets, with around $230 billion in notional traded every day on our platform.

We work with banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, asset managers, custodians and more across North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, bringing greater efficiency, transparency and automation to the securities finance lifecycle. If you join us, you'll be building technology that runs at real scale for some of the world's biggest financial institutions.

We are proud to be Great Place to Work Certified™ in the U.S., UK, Ireland, and India, and were named Trading System of the Year, Americas Data Provider of the Year, and Asian Data Provider of the Year at the Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards 2026.

Diversity & Inclusion
The best ideas come from teams who bring different perspectives, backgrounds and ways of thinking. We build that into how we hire, develop, and support our people.

We work to ensure our teams reflect the global markets and clients we serve, creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.

If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know and we will work with you to make it happen.

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