Treasury Clearing Attorney

Join Our Team as a Treasuring Clearing Attorney at Axiom

Location: Remote

We are seeking an experienced Treasury Clearing Attorney to support U.S. Treasury clearing initiatives. In this role, you will review, draft, and negotiate customer clearing agreements for sponsored repurchase transactions in preparation for compliance with the SEC’s U.S. Treasury clearing mandate. You will work closely with internal teams across legal, business, and credit risk while supporting documentation remediation and clearing readiness. The broader work involves CCP frameworks, margin and collateral mechanics, netting, and cross-product documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Review, draft, and negotiate customer clearing agreements for sponsored repurchase transactions.
• Support preparation for compliance with the SEC’s U.S. Treasury clearing mandate.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure compliance with legal, business, and credit risk controls, guidelines, and procedures.
• Update agreement templates and tailor industry forms for use in client negotiations.
• Review and analyze applicable regulations and netting opinions.
• Support Treasury and repo documentation within CCP frameworks.
• Help align margin, collateral, netting, and default provisions with operational requirements.

Qualifications:

• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating clearing, repo, or related markets documentation.
• Strong understanding of repurchase transactions and Treasury clearing.
• Knowledge of margin, collateral, and netting mechanics.
• Experience reviewing regulations and netting opinions.
• Ability to work effectively with legal, business, credit risk, and operational stakeholders.
• Juris Doctor degree or equivalent and licensed to practice law in an applicable jurisdiction.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with sponsored repurchase transactions and customer clearing agreements.
• Familiarity with CCP documentation and clearinghouse frameworks.
• Experience tailoring industry-standard forms and templates for client negotiations.
• Experience supporting large-scale documentation or regulatory remediation initiatives.

Compensation:

The estimated total compensation for full-time Axiom attorney roles is $104,500-325,000 per year and for non-attorney roles is $71,250-309,750 per year. Compensation decisions are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, certifications, location, and business needs.

About Axiom:

For over 25 years, Axiom has pioneered the alternative legal services industry, now serving more than 1,500 legal departments globally with our unique blend of world-class legal talent and advanced AI tools, delivering innovative solutions ranging from that combine top-tier talent with cutting-edge technology. We tackle complex legal matters across 12 practice areas for clients ranging from Fortune 100 to SMBs, empowering our legal professionals to engage in meaningful work that advances their careers. Our Talent NPS score of +71% and our Client NPS score of +64% highlight our commitment to excellence (Reported scores were Axiom’s average for 2025 – the legal industry average NPS score is +35%). Join our forward-thinking community where you’ll keep your career dynamic and multi-faceted, be part of a company that values agility, collaboration, and excellence, and love both the law and your life.

Learn more about life at Axiom.

Axiom is the global leader in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in class alterative legal services.

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