CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
Are you an experienced attorney with a background in financial services? CTC is looking for an innovative, creative problem solver who will collaborate closely with the General Counsel to advise leadership and others on legal risks, business strategies, and commercial deals. You will be a key partner to the business helping to drive our growth plans in an ever more complex industry. If you are a highly motivated, self-starter with good business discernment who enjoys working in a dynamic, and collaborative environment, then CTC is the place for you.
What You’ll Do
- Handle regulatory matters with securities regulators (FINRA, SEC, CFTC, Exchanges) regarding the firm, our trading activities, and employees.
- Represent CTC in regulatory enforcement cases including collecting evidence, responding to requests for information, presenting employees for testimony, engaging in settlement negotiations, and representing the firm in administrative hearings.
- Provide guidance on legal matters for business activities including corporate, contractual, regulatory, insurance, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation and transactional issues.
- Understand the priorities of the business units and ensure that legal services support those priorities.
- Draft highly complex limited partnership and limited liability company agreements in the context of restructurings, startups and joint ventures involving tax, regulatory and intellectual property considerations.
- Review, negotiate, and train CTC personnel with regard to commercial contracting with an emphasis on technology and intellectual property law. Participate with other departments in negotiations to ensure consideration of all meaningful legal issues and appropriate protection of CTC’s interests.
What We Are Looking For:
- J.D. from an ABA accredited law school. Licensed to practice law in Illinois or New York,
- Seven or more years of legal experience with a strong background in securities regulation and corporate law.
- Solid experience working within Financial Services, option market making and/or proprietary trading preferred.
- Extensive experience handling regulatory inquiries and representing firms before regulators is required, experience with FINRA preferred.
- Quick study, able to handle complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously that require discretion and confidentiality.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, combined with a professional demeanor.
Our Benefits
(Disclaimer: does not apply to contract roles) We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.