Senior Legal Counsel

<p>The APAC Legal Team partners closely with domestic and international stakeholders to support our trading activities across the Asia-Pacific region. We play a pivotal role in enabling the firm’s success, providing strategic legal guidance, and ensuring regulatory excellence in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.</p> <p>As a lead Counsel in Hong Kong, you will establish IMC’s legal presence in one of our most strategically important and fastest-growing offices. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, APAC, you will play a key role in advising on legal matters, supporting trading and technology, and managing corporate governance responsibilities across the region.</p> <p>You will be part of, and work closely with, IMC’s APAC Legal Team in Sydney, ensuring seamless and consistent legal support across APAC. Beyond the legal team, you will collaborate with Trading, Technology, Finance, HR, Corporate Development, Risk, and Compliance, as well as legal counterparts across the globe, ensuring alignment and best practices across all jurisdictions.</p> <p>This role offers a unique opportunity to make a direct and lasting impact on IMC’s operations in Hong Kong as the office continues to grow.</p> <h3><strong>Your Core Responsibilities</strong></h3> <p><strong><em>Legal Advisory</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Act as the primary legal adviser for IMC’s Hong Kong office, delivering timely, commercial advice across financial services, regulatory, corporate, commercial, and technology matters.</li> <li>Work with our existing senior lawyers to advise on Hong Kong and broader APAC regulatory developments, with a particular focus on SFO, HKEX, and evolving China-related legal and regulatory requirements.</li> <li>Monitor, research, and proactively communicate emerging legal and regulatory issues across financial services, technology, IP, data privacy, and employment law, translating complex issues into clear, actionable advice for non-legal stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p><strong><em>Transactional & Commercial</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the review, and negotiation of a wide range of financial markets contracts, including exchange-traded and OTC financial agreements, technology arrangements, key vendor contracts, and other business agreements.</li> <li>Identify and advise on contractual and operational legal risks and develop practical risk mitigation strategies in partnership with the business.</li> <li>Support corporate development activities including M&A, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions as IMC expands its regional footprint.</li> </ul> <p><strong><em>Regulatory & Compliance</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Partner with the APAC Compli