About Company
Established in 2018, Bitget is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges. Currently serving more than two million users across 50 countries, Bitget accelerated its mission to promote decentralised finance in 2021 with a 600-strong workforce spanning over twenty countries. Since Bitget’s official launch in the crypto derivatives market in June 2019, the platform has become one of the largest crypto copy trading and derivatives exchanges in the world, with the latest round of financing launching the company into a multi-billion dollar valuation.
Job Description
Summary
What you'll do
- You will be an important member of the Legal team prioritising ownership of all Disputes work (litigation & arbitration).
- Our Disputes practice covers the full range of contentious work, typically involving listings, intellectual property, financial, commercial, corporate, criminal, liquidation, compliance, law enforcement, consumer and employment legal matters.
- You will be responsible for addressing risks within the company, and proposing measures to mitigate and reduce such risks.
- You will lead efforts to manage external law firms including their engagement, review of their work and approval of fees with on-going matter-management to ensure the best results for Bitget.
- You will represent the legal team before internal stakeholders to provide robust, commercially sensible, accurate and practical advice and to manage their expectations throughout the life of the matter.
What you'll need
- 3-7 PQE qualified common law lawyer with experience in a reputable law firm and/or in-house organisation.
- Graduated with a law degree from a major common law jurisdiction (e.g. UK, HK or SG).
- Ability to take ownership of disputes and contentious matters from beginning-to-end.
- Start-up experience is advantageous, especially demonstrable experience in handling complex legal matters in fast-paced and exacting situations.
- Experience and knowledge of crypto products, regulations and transactions are advantageous.
- Ability to work independently, exercise common sense judgement and make tough decisions.
- Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills.
- Excellent command of English, and business proficient Mandarin language skills are required to communicate with some Chinese-speaking stakeholders.
- Ability to quickly adapt to using MacBook, Google Drive and internal IT platforms for work purposes.
- Right to work and based in HK.
We foresee there will be a real possibility that this hire may eventually be offered the opportunity to convert into a permanent role depending on performance and business needs.
Skills
- Communications Skills
- Cryptocurrency
- Legal Consulting
- Team Collaboration
