Counsel - Financial Services

As Counsel on Coinbase's Institutional Legal team, you'll provide hands-on legal support for institutional products across UK and international markets, covering prime brokerage, exchange, trading, custody, derivatives, and financing. You'll work with a small, highly experienced group of lawyers serving banks, brokers, hedge funds, market makers, and other professional trading clients. You'll own the commercial legal work that enables Coinbase to build and scale first-of-a-kind institutional products at the intersection of crypto and traditional global markets.

What you'll do

• Negotiate highly tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, payments, and digital asset space, including prime brokerage, lending, and derivatives documentation
• Own the full product life-cycle negotiation for institutional products, advising on legal issues, risks, complex agreement structures, and company policies in a compliance-oriented environment
• Lead cross-functional efforts across Institutional Sales, Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, and Compliance to drive alignment and close deals
• Build scalable commercial processes and risk frameworks that give the business flexibility to execute on a global growth plan

What you bring

• Qualification as a solicitor or barrister (England and Wales) or licensed attorney with 5+ years of experience at a financial services institution such as a bank, e-money issuer, broker-dealer, or asset manager, or at a law firm advising such clients
• A proven track record negotiating and drafting institutional financial agreements, including prime brokerage, securities financing, and/or derivatives documentation such as ISDA, GMSLA, or futures agreements
• Experience providing full life-cycle negotiation for trading, custody, or financing products, including advising on legal risk and commercial structuring
• Familiarity with UK and/or EU regulatory regimes applicable to financial instruments, with the ability to navigate cross-border legal and regulatory considerations
• Experience leading legal workstreams across globally distributed, cross-functional teams involving Sales, Product, Engineering, and Compliance stakeholders
• Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Base salary of £110,400 GBP, with total compensation also including equity and bonus eligibility and benefits including medical, dental, and vision
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called surges, with a remote-first work environment

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the infrastructure of the digital economy, working to increase economic freedom through cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The company operates a remote-first culture with global teams serving institutional and retail clients.