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# Legal Counsel at IMC

- **Company:** IMC
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Compensation:** $170k–$230k
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-25
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/imc/jobs/4986762101

## Job description

IMC seeks a Legal Counsel (5 years’ experience) to provide in-house corporate legal support in the U.S. for a multi-entity international proprietary trading organization. This position primarily focuses on researching, drafting, and offering legal advice as it relates to corporate law, entity formation, corporate transactions, intracompany dealings, and tax matters.  This position also will provide general commercial contract review support as needed.

Your Core Responsibilities:

- Review, draft, and negotiate, intracompany agreements related to a wide variety of matters including, among other things, services, cost allocations, transactions, credit, and resource sharing.
- Provide advice on corporate law and organizational structure.
- Work with members of the Finance team to provide support on tax implications related to the various entities’ structures and activities.
- Partner closely with Finance and other internal cross-functional teams to support business objectives while ensuring appropriate legal and regulatory safeguards are maintained.
- Research and prepare legal memoranda on matters related to intracompany transactions, tax issues, corporate actions, corporate law, or any other topics as needed.
- Review, draft, and negotiate contracts, including vendor agreements, trading agreements, technology agreements (e.g., SAS), consulting agreements, NDAs, leases, and other business, corporate, and legal arrangements.

Your Skills & Experience:

- Candidate must have a Juris Doctorate and top academic credentials; must be a member in good standing of the Illinois bar.
- 5 years in-house experience with concentration in corporate law, entity structures, cost allocations/transfer pricing, and a general understanding of related tax issues, preferably in a financial services, trading, or technology company setting.
- Strong business judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to provide advice that reflects an understanding of IMC’s business, commercial objectives, the regulatory environment, and risk-reward tradeoffs.
- The ideal candidate will be able to work independently under tight deadlines and possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent research, drafting, and communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
- Candidate must be willing to demonstrate leadership as necessary to bring stakeholders across various teams together to set clear expectations and ensure a project’s timely completion.
- Collaborative and effective in building relationships across diverse teams.

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening. The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit [Benefits - US | IMC Trading](https://www.imc.com/us/careers/benefits) for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range $170,000—$230,000 USD

## 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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