About the Role
As Legal Counsel, you will work closely with the trading teams and play a key part in maintaining the high standard of legal advice across the firm. The role reports to the General Counsel.
Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.
Responsibilities
- Contract management: Draft, review and negotiate contracts across the full lifecycle, and act as trusted advisor to the business on commercial legal matters
- Corporate matters: Handle corporate housekeeping, including board and shareholder resolutions, and manage stakeholder engagement
- Corporate structuring: Support corporate optimisation projects and entity set-up, coordinating with internal teams and external advisors
- Privacy, IP and AI: Advise on complex and bespoke topics with legal impact on the organisation
- Legal technology: Help the department adopt AI tools in a controlled way, working with our technology teams on the guardrails
- Novel matters: Assess the legal impact of new products and markets as they arise
- Cross-functional work: Partner with Compliance, Risk, Finance, and Business Development to keep cross-functional projects efficient and aligned
- Laws and regulations: Track upcoming legislation relevant to Da Vinci's activities and advise the business on its impact
- Legal risk awareness: Represent Legal across the organisation and build awareness of legal risk
Requirements
- Law degree from the EU, UK or US
- 3 to 5 years of work experience since graduating, gained in private practice and/or in a legal function at a regulated financial services firm. Experience advising financial services clients is a strong plus
- A “go the extra mile” mentality: you follow through until the job is done, with judgement on when to go deep and when to stay practical
- A team player who enjoys collaborating and thrives on varied work, where no two days are the same
- Proven contract experience: drafting from scratch, commercial negotiation, and managing business and counterparty expectations
- Experience with corporate housekeeping, including board and shareholder resolutions and meetings
- Affinity with entity set-up across jurisdictions, corporate restructuring and (tax) optimisation projects
- Curiosity about emerging topics such as artificial intelligence, both as a legal subject and as a way of working
- Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day legal work, and keen to help the department get more out of them
Benefits
- An opportunity to work in a high-tech, driven environment
- The chance to see trading first hand as trusted advisor to the business
- An opportunity to work alongside some of the most qualified professionals in the industry
- A base salary of EUR 70k-100k (based on experience)
- Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities
- Shareholding in the company for outstanding performance
- Relocation package when moving from abroad, including relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support
- Fresh breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared by our in-house chef
- An in-house gym and game room (pool table, board games and console games)
- Social events and after-work drinks
- Reimbursement of travel costs to and from the office
Skills Required
- Law degree from the EU, UK or US
- 3 to 5 years of work experience since graduating, in private practice and/or in-house at a regulated financial services firm
- Experience advising financial services clients
- Proven contract experience: drafting from scratch, commercial negotiation, and managing business and counterparty expectations
- Experience with corporate housekeeping, including board and shareholder resolutions and meetings
- Affinity with entity set-up across jurisdictions, corporate restructuring and (tax) optimisation projects
- Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day legal work and helping adopt them responsibly
- Curiosity about emerging topics such as artificial intelligence
- Team player who enjoys collaborating and handling varied work
- Proactive, 'go the extra mile' mentality with good judgment
What We Do
Da Vinci was founded in 2015 after a group of passionate trading experts found themselves desiring a new way of working. They wanted to do things differently. At Da Vinci, our goal is to build the best proprietary trading house in the world by doing just that. We strive to keep our work smart and innovative, making the most of our team’s strategic minds to challenge existing ways of thinking. We’ve established a unique approach to trading and have high standards for company culture. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market — Amsterdam — and spend each day immersed in the city’s rich financial and trading history. Becoming the best in the world means building a team of first-rate talent with the most innovative ideas. The real value comes from how we work and grow together, making working at Da Vinci challenging and rewarding. We have a lot of fun and truly enjoy what we do; at Da Vinci, we value collaboration, so you can find traders, software engineers, researchers and founders working closely together every day. We are nonhierarchical, support employees moving flexibly within the firm and place no limit on personal growth. No matter their role, everyone is key to sustainably growing Da Vinci into the business we know it can be. We value excellence in everything we do, encourage employees to take ownership of their work. We believe that our colleagues must consistently feel stimulated and supported in order to reach their full potential and achieve our ambitious goals.
