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Counsel, Legal and Compliance (New York, New York): Counsel, Legal and Compliance positions available. D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. seeks full-time Counsel, Legal and Compliance, to work in its office in New York, New York. Responsibilities: Review and negotiate master trading agreements, including ISDA master agreements, prime brokerage, futures and options clearing, repurchase, and custody agreements, as well as trade- specific agreements and confirmations with international banks, broker- dealers, and their external counsel in support of the firm's trading strategies. Handle ISDA and related derivatives documentation, including master agreements, margin segregation agreements, master confirmations, and bespoke long-form confirmations in addition to other transaction-specific documentation with a particular focus on equity and commodity swaps. The successful candidate will have a Master's degree in Law, or a related field of study plus two (2) years of experience negotiating ISDA published documents (including Master Agreements, Credit Support Annexes, IM CSA, and confirmation agreements for equity, credit, FX, and interest rate swaps); negotiating master repurchase and global master repurchase agreements; negotiating execution-based trading agreements (including Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement, futures and options give-up agreements, swap execution facility agreements, and SIA 151 agreements); and negotiating custody, prime brokerage, futures and options clearing agreements, ISDA Master agreements, master and global master repurchase agreements, confirmation agreements, and execution based trading agreements and identifying and tracking key legal terms in such agreements. Applicants may submit a resume by mail to D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., Two Manhattan West, 375 Ninth Avenue, 52nd Floor, New York, NY 10001, or by email: recruitment-nyc@ world.deshaw.com. Submissions must reference 2026-5966 NYT. No phone calls please. The annual base salary for this position is $200,000 - $215,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year- end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401k contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program. D. E. Shaw is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or other category protected by law.