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Associate Counsel, Commercial Retail

Clear Street · New York, NY · On-site

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About Clear Street

Speed, Transparency and Scale for Sophisticated Investors.™.

About the role

Clear Street is building a modern retail brokerage business, bringing institutional infrastructure and technology to individual investors and active traders. As we scale, we’re expanding our partnerships, marketing, distribution and technology relationships. We’re looking for a Counsel, Commercial (Retail) to advise on and negotiate the growing volume of agreements supporting that expansion. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • D. from an accredited law school and admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (New York preferred)
  • Approximately 3–5 years of relevant experience as a commercial or transactional attorney, at a law firm or in-house, ideally in fintech, brokerage, consumer technology, digital media or advertising
  • Direct experience negotiating marketing, partnership, agency and vendor agreements
  • Strong drafting and negotiating skills, with close attention to commercial detail
  • A track record of managing a substantial matter load independently and prioritizing across competing demands
  • Sound judgment on risk: you know when to accept a position, when to push back and when to escalate
More about this role

Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale.

We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.

For more information, visit https://clearstreet.io.

Clear Street is building a modern retail brokerage business, bringing institutional infrastructure and technology to individual investors and active traders.

As we scale, we’re expanding our partnerships, marketing, distribution and technology relationships. We’re looking for a Counsel, Commercial (Retail) to advise on and negotiate the growing volume of agreements supporting that expansion.

You will serve as the lead commercial lawyer for Retail and report to the General Counsel. You will advise Retail leadership, draft and negotiate agreements from term sheet through signature and renewal, and work closely with Compliance, Finance, Privacy and Information Security to manage...

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