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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.
Skills Required
- Juris Doctorate degree
- Top academic credentials
- Member in good standing of the Illinois bar
- Five years of in-house legal experience
- Experience in corporate law and entity structures
- Experience with cost allocations or transfer pricing
- General understanding of related tax issues
- Strong business judgment and decision-making skills
- Excellent research, drafting, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently under tight deadlines
- Ability to lead stakeholders and coordinate timely project completion
- Collaborative relationship-building skills across diverse teams
- Experience in financial services, trading, or technology companies
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
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 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.
Why Work With Us
At IMC, the best ideas win, regardless of hierarchy. Graduates receive mentorship and make an impact from day one, while experienced hires get to shape their own path in a flexible, high-performance environment. We remove barriers so everyone can grow and help drive one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
