About the Position

We are looking for an energetic and driven Legal Counsel to join our Legal and Compliance team in Hong Kong, focusing on our China business development. In this role, you’ll provide clear and practical advice to teams across the firm and help draft, review and negotiate trading-related contracts for our Asia business, with a particular focus on China. 

The types of agreements that you will help draft and negotiate include derivatives documents, commodities purchase agreements, broker agreements, terms of business, NDAs and financing agreements. We will also rely on you to:

• Respond to inquiries regarding existing and new contracts 
• Provide direct legal support to the desk on new business initiatives
• Liaise with external counsel and other external advisers 
• Negotiate with counterparties in China and other jurisdictions

While your daily work will focus on Hong Kong and China, you may also advise colleagues more broadly across our office locations worldwide.

About You

• Have 3-8 years of PQE on a corporate and/or finance team (e.g., derivatives, credit, M&A) within leading law firms or financial institutions
• Experienced with drafting and negotiating contracts
• Able to stay organised with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy, and able to handle competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent writer and speaker; strong negotiator
• Self-motivated and flexible team player
• Positive, responsible and professional in attitude and presence
• Collaborative and able to clearly articulate your approach, analysis and conclusions
• Comfortable working on problems that rarely have clean, definitive answers
• Native in Mandarin and fluent in English, both in speaking and writing

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Work with the Best

Orderly Network is a combination of an orderbook-based trading infrastructure and a robust liquidity layer offering spot and perpetual futures orderbooks. Unlike traditional platforms, Orderly doesn’t have a front end; instead, it operates at the core of the ecosystem, providing essential services to projects built on top of it.
Our DEX white-label solution is carefully crafted to save builders time and capital while granting access to our bootstrapped liquidity. Picture having the best features of CEXs while keeping settlements on-chain and maintaining full self-custody.

With Orderly, anyone can create a trading application thanks to our seamless plug-and-play experience leveraging our liquidity and composability.

Looking ahead, our grand vision is to create an omnichain protocol, connecting traders from both EVM and non-EVM chains within the same orderbook.

A Glimpse into Your Future at Orderly Network

Orderly's Partnership team accelerates the growth of Orderly's ecosystem and business development by supporting committed teams that build ambitious products on top of Orderly. 

As Associate, Eco & BD, you’ll conceptualize, implement, and manage growth initiatives for early- to mid-stage builders across all verticals (DeFi, gaming, NFTs, etc) to become thriving ecosystem projects. You will use creativity and data-driven evidence to identify which strategies and support verticals to prioritize. You will manage, maintain, and improve internal and externally-facing systems and processes. You are ready and willing to tackle any challenge, no problem too small.  You are self-sufficient, organized, and ambitious, with existing experience in L1/L2 ecosystem development.

• What will you be working on?
  • You’ll develop and execute new initiatives that grow our ecosystem 
  • You’ll work alongside Business Development, DevRel, Marketing, and Operations teams to execute initiatives
  • You’ll collaborate with a range of counterparties, builders, investors, exchanges, infrastructure providers—to promote the growth of our ecosystem
  • You’ll manage initiatives like grants programs and hackathons that bring builders to Orderly and encourage them to compose with other ecosystem apps
  • You'll research new defi protocols, work with L1/2 ecosystems, support in driving more utility for our token
• Who will you be working with?
  • Maintain close collaboration with Marketing, Operations, Product & BD Teams.
• About you
  • Two or more years of experience in ecosystem growth/BD at an L1/L2 blockchain or similar (e.g. portfolio support at a venture firm), onboarding and growing successful projects from the ground up
  • You are biased toward action while respecting team-oriented priorities
  • You are no-ego, adaptable, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented
  • You are an excellent speaker and writer
  • You are personable and able to manage expectations across many stakeholders and multiple on-going relationships

Interested in Learning More?

• Our hiring process begins by meeting with our People Team, who help facilitate the process of placing you in your new role. You can expect to share your experience and ideas in online video interviews with our hiring team, made up of management and potential new colleagues.
• If you have experience in developing trading systems or financial-related products is a plus.
• You can prepare for this interview by mentally organizing your strategies and opinions on topics such as Web3, cryptocurrency trading platforms, and your vision of how to succeed. 
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