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# Legal Counsel - Financial Markets and Regulatory at IMC

- **Company:** IMC
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/imc/jobs/5001335101

## Job description

The APAC Legal Team partners closely with domestic and international stakeholders to support our trading activities across the Asia-Pacific region from our Sydney office. Playing a pivotal role in enabling the firm’s success, providing strategic legal guidance, and ensuring regulatory excellence in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.

As a Legal Counsel, you will report directly to the Senior Legal Counsel, APAC, and play a key role in advising on legal matters, supporting transactions, and managing corporate governance responsibilities for IMC in the region. You will work in close collaboration with our Trading and Technology teams, as well as Finance, HR, Corporate Development, Treasury, Risk, and Compliance, to drive business growth and operational excellence.

You will also engage with our global legal counterparts in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Amsterdam, Chicago, and London, ensuring alignment and best practices across jurisdictions. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a direct impact on IMC’s global operations.

Your Core Responsibilities:

- Advise on financial services regulatory, corporate, and technology matters across the Asia Pacific region.
- Coordination and negotiation of financial markets and trading agreements (e.g. prime brokerage agreements, give-up agreements).
- Collaborating closely with APAC Compliance team and Trading desks to advise on financial markets licensing and marketing requirements across the APAC region, and responding to ongoing counterparty onboarding queries.
- Ad hoc review of general commercial and technology contracts to support the trading business.
- Build and maintain stakeholder relationships to work effectively at pace across the business.
- Coordination with external counsel across APAC jurisdictions and IMC’s global legal teams, working through legal issues and proposing practical solutions for counterparty contracts.
- Research and provide advice on various emerging legal and regulatory issues across APAC markets.
- Review and update policies and procedures of IMC, identify areas for continuous improvement, as required.
- Assist with corporate governance, including preparing for Board and Committee meetings of IMC’s corporate and charitable organisations in the APAC region.

Your Skills and Experience:

- Tertiary qualifications in Law and top academic credentials.
- Admitted as a solicitor in Australia or another common law jurisdiction.
- 6-9 years PQE gained at a leading law firm and in-house legal department within the financial services or technology sectors, with a track record of negotiating and executing transaction documentation.
- Strong legal, regulatory review, drafting and negotiation skills in English.
- Detailed understanding of the legal, regulatory and operational issues arising in financial markets.
- Exposure to multiple APAC jurisdictions and key regional regulatory considerations, with a demonstrated ability to manage multi-jurisdictional regulatory matters.
- Proven ability to manage contract negotiations and counterparty onboarding.
- Working knowledge of Australian AML/CTF requirements and of sanctions regimes relevant to APAC trading.
- Adept at using legal technology and leveraging AI tools and emerging technology to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.
- Ability to work independently under tight deadlines, be organised and have excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex legal issues effectively to a non-legal audience.
- Additional language skills relevant to the APAC region are highly desirable.
- Ability to work across different jurisdictions and time zones and occasional travel to other IMC offices and trading locations.

## About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.

## About IMC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: IMC is a global trading firm that uses cutting-edge technology, quantitative research, and advanced algorithms to provide liquidity across major asset classes and trading venues worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (global headquarters); major offices in Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai, and other cities.
- **Founded**: 1989
- **Founders**: Two traders (names not publicly disclosed) who met on the floor of the Amsterdam Equity Options Exchange.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading, Market Making, Financial Technology
- **Target customers**: Institutional clients, exchanges, ETF issuers, buy-side firms, and other market participants. **B2B** focus.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the world’s leading trading firm, supporting fair and transparent markets by providing significant liquidity and competitive pricing. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)

## Products & Services
- **ETF Market Making**: Acts as a Lead Market Maker (LMM) in more than 150 US exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
- **Options Wholesaling**: A top-3 liquidity provider by volume traded in listed options globally, with connectivity to all OCC venues.
- **Institutional Sales**: Provides off-screen trading for buy-side firms.
- **Crypto Solutions**: Offers global coverage of crypto products including spot, perps, futures, and options, both on- and off-chain.
- **Multi-Asset Class Trading**: Develops innovative technologies and algorithms to trade in all major asset classes on more than 120 venues globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,070 employees across 10 global offices as of 2025/2026. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Privately held; no external investors disclosed. Key partners include major global exchanges and clearing houses (e.g., OCC).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Employee count grew from +1,900 to +2,070 in recent years.
    - Operates 9,000+ servers across 9 countries and processes petabytes of data daily.
    - Expanding into crypto and new asset classes.
    - Committed to being Net Zero by 2040.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technology & Infrastructure**: A world-class technology backbone with 9,000+ servers, petabytes of data processing, and early adoption of AI/ML.
- **Longevity & Experience**: 36+ years of trading history and deep expertise across multiple asset classes.
- **Global Scale**: 24/7 liquidity provision across 120+ trading venues in the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and India.
- **Talent Density**: A flat, non-hierarchical culture that attracts top quant researchers, engineers, and traders from 70+ nationalities.
- **Culture of Ownership**: Employees are given significant responsibility early on, with a focus on collaboration and cross-functional teamwork.

## Strategic Focus
- **Quantitative Research & Tech**: Continually investing in quant research, AI, machine learning, and large-scale computing to generate alpha.
- **Global Expansion**: Expanding across new markets and asset classes, including crypto.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to being Net Zero by 2040 and making a positive impact through the IMC Foundations, focusing on education.
- **Talent Development**: Investing heavily in graduate and intern training programs (Graduate Traineeship, Launchpad) to build the next generation of talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: High-performance, collaborative, and non-hierarchical. 87% of employees say "IMC is a great place to work" (+4% vs global top-10%). [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
- **Work Environment**: Office-based (no remote policy indicated). Offers free catered breakfast and lunch, snacks, drinks, and Friday socials. Regular team events including an annual weekend trip.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive compensation with subsidized gym memberships, ergonomic desks, and health/well-being programs.
- **Learning & Development**: Extensive internal and external training programs. Graduates undergo a multi-week Graduate Traineeship (Trading School, Development School, FPGA School).
- **Diversity**: Employees represent 70+ nationalities, with a strong commitment to D&I.
- **Giving Back**: A share of profits is donated to non-profits, with a focus on education. Employees get volunteer time, donation matching, and grants.

## Sources
1. [IMC Homepage](https://www.imc.com/us/)
2. [IMC Careers Page](https://www.imc.com/us/careers)
3. [IMC Who We Are](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
4. [IMC Culture & Values](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
5. [IMC Recruitment Process](https://www.imc.com/us/careers/recruitment-process)

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