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Delighted to be supporting one of the most prestigious law firms in London (c1000 headcount including Partners) in recruiting for a Derivatives and Trading Associate with 1-3 yrs' PQE.The practiceThe derivatives and trading practice consists of two partners, three senior counsels, one senior associate, six associates, two trainee solicitors and four paralegals. They represent hedge funds, corporate treasuries, financial institutions, managed account platforms, asset managers and high-net-worth individuals in structuring, negotiating and executing complex and bespoke derivative instruments.The team works alongside our specialist lawyers in financial services, regulatory, capital markets, tax and dispute resolution and advise on both the day-to-day trading requirements of clients, and the most complex derivative and structured product transactions in both transactional and contentious roles.The practice have a global client base and advise on a wide range of products including repos, stock loans and all kinds of derivative, covering interest rate, fixed income, currency, commodity, equity, credit, basket and index underliers. The team routinely advises on matters such as, prime brokerage and clearing, and issues around rehypothecation and segregation, custody and collateral, securities lending and margin financing matters, repos, structured products, exchange traded derivatives, central clearing including OTC clearing under Dodd-Frank and EMIR, cash equities and cash bond trading under broker terms of business and electronic trading arrangements.Key responsibilities:the role is predominantly transactional, negotiating a broad spectrum of derivative and trade documents between broker-dealers and/or hedge funds, and managing the document and execution process for fund launches and business as usual transactionsday to day advisory work for the predominantly buy-side client basis will also be required. A good working knowledge of current regulatory issues is therefore useful, although the firm carry out extensive training in this regardcreating and/or diligencing innovative structures for our clients and colleagues in other practice areassupporting wider firm transactions with hedging queries and related collateral and regulatory issuesresearching new products and regulations around the world, whenever our clients wish to trade.What we are looking for in a candidate:strong academic qualifications from degree upwardsideally will have completed at least one seat within derivatives, finance or funds during their training contractarticulate and confident to deliver at the highest standard within a team of highly competent associatesambitious, with a genuine commitment to develop both their professional and legal skills and the profile of the groupthe ability to instil confidence to the client by delivering clear, efficient and robust advice in a derivatives contextExcellent communication and relationship-building skillsNote - this role could suit either someone currently working in private practice or someone who trained in finance practice and now may be working for a recognised investment bank trading desk (including work on some or all of OTC Derivatives and ETDs, prime broker and custody agreements, collateral arrangements, clearing and repos)Please don't hesitate to reach out to me at michael.mahon@roxwelltalent.com to arrange a confidential discussion, or, please apply on here (Linkedin) and I will be in touch.