Vice President, Digital Assets and ETF Legal Counsel
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About this role
Are you an experienced attorney searching for an exciting, challenging, multi-faceted opportunity with the world's largest asset manager? We are seeking an attorney to serve as a member of BlackRock’s Legal team, primarily focusing on digital assets priorities across the firm. Responsibilities would include, but not be limited to, providing legal advice and support relating to the structuring, launch, distribution and day-to-day operations of products and services in the digital assets space, as well as ETFs more broadly. The attorney will provide legal support to key partners including product development, business operations, and portfolio management, and will also work closely with other teams within BlackRock’s Legal & Compliance department.
Responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice and counsel on matters related to digital assets, including exchange-traded products, private funds, and other collective investment products, tokenization, staking, collateral, trading, fund structuring and digital asset service provider agreements.
- Assist with new fund launches for ETFs more broadly, including product development and structuring, as well as ongoing support of existing funds and products, including with respect to trading, collateral, and adoption.
- Manage outside counsel’s review of fund documents and provide general oversight of work performed by outside counsel.
- Advise business teams regarding key initiatives and special projects.
- Conduct research and draft comments on various regulatory proposals and consultations.
- Draft and negotiate service provider, intermediary and client contracts.
- Draft and update SEC registration statements and other regulatory documents and shareholder communications.
- Collaborate with the compliance function, including the enhancement of internal policies and procedures aimed at mitigating risk, meeting applicable regulatory requirements and/or improving operational efficiency.
Qualifications:
- J.D. with superior academic credentials from a nationally recognized law school and at least five years’ experience as a lawyer in a major law firm or the legal department of a leading digital asset financial services organization.
- Experience in advising on digital asset matters including digital asset fund structuring, tokenization, staking, collateral, decentralized finance applications and other digital asset services.
- Strong understanding of digital assets, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, staking, decentralized finance and collateral pledging
- Familiarity with or demonstrated interest in asset management and advising mutual funds, ETFs, money market funds, private funds and/or other collective investment products would be preferred.
- Familiarity with advising on trading matters including collateral pledging, prime brokerage agreements, decentralized finance applications would be preferred.
- Exceptional analytical, written, verbal and project management skills and ability to (i) work with and across different business and operations teams, (ii) work effectively both independently and as a member of team, (iii) work in a demanding and fast-paced environment, and (iv) prioritize multiple tasks and projects concurrently while maintaining high standards and attention to detail.
- Capacity to pursue and solve problems in a practical manner and to communicate complex legal, compliance and business issues/risks in an understandable way.
- Ability and desire to develop expertise in new or unfamiliar areas of law.
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