Director, Assistant General Counsel

Job Description:

Building trusted markets — powered by our people. 

At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. 

We’re building inclusive ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we’ve earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. Our Associate Resource Groups champion diversity, equity and inclusion, giving employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.  

Sound like the place for you? Join us! 

Cboe is seeking a Listings Assistant General Counsel, Director  

As a team, the legal department is responsible for handling all legal matters for the Company including regulatory filings, SEC and CFTC compliance, contract drafting/review, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, disputes, litigation, etc.  

Your responsibilities will be: 

Manage specialized knowledge to support national securities exchanges regulated by the SEC, with a particular focus on exchange rules and filings and initiatives to support exchange-traded products (“ETPs”) listed and traded on Cboe’s listing market. 

• Develop and draft rule filings and SEC regulatory filings, articulating clear rationales and objectives for proposed changes, and seek regulatory approval of these filings. 

• Cultivate and nurture strategic relationships with legal counsel representing ETP issuers 

• Work with the ETP Listings business leadership to drive growth in the ETP listings business by providing expert legal counsel and innovative thinking 

• Prepare complex comment letters and help to respond to regulatory inquiries 

• Provide advice on legal and regulatory issues resulting from new and existing regulations and business initiatives 

• Counsel senior management by identifying issues, conducting research and drafting documents 

• Respond to other general legal matters including those related to securities trading and corporate law issues 

• Review regulatory and informational publications 

• Monitor new domestic and international regulatory developments that directly or indirectly impact the company 

• Provide legal counsel to the company in connection with regulatory exams, inspections and other matters 

• Other legal support for company activities 

The ideal candidate has: 

• A minimum of 8 years of experience working at a law firm of at a corporation, with a specialty related to securities exchange regulations, other securities regulatory matters or related fields of law.

• Previous employment at the SEC or a futures