Legal Counsel - Hedge Fund, Prediction Markets
Full Time, Barcelona Office
About the Company
BlueWalker Capital is a hedge fund developing systematic and quantitative trading strategies native to prediction markets.
It's still early days for us—we are deepening a moat across trading infrastructure, datasets, and modeling.
Our mission is to become the leading hedge fund in this emerging asset class, delivering investment returns while making prediction markets efficient as the world's most accurate source of truth.
Our legal operations span exchanges, brokers, and tax authorities across multiple jurisdictions. This is a rare opportunity to build the legal and fiscal backbone of a growing trading firm from the ground up, with full autonomy and no bureaucracy. Own relationships with exchanges, brokers, custodians, tax authorities and external counsel.
Establish and maintain robust transfer pricing policies for intra-group services and capital deployment across multi-jurisdictional entities.
Deep understanding of the fiscal treatment of financial instruments and digital assets across major jurisdictions (EU, US, and offshore).
Familiarity with entity structuring (holding companies, SPVs, offshore vehicles) and cross-border capital deployment mechanics.
Experience managing filings and compliance obligations across multiple entities simultaneously.
Solid grasp of AML, KYB, and financial regulatory processes applicable to prop trading firms.
Fluent Spanish & English
Ability to prioritize when everything feels urgent.
A "Option C" thinker who finds creative, compliant paths forward when legal roadblocks appear.
Familiarity with Spanish, BVI and/or US law — ideally more than one.
Prior experience at a law firm or the legal department of an investment firm.
Exposure to digital asset regulation, custody frameworks, or DeFi-adjacent legal structures.
Ability to own the full cycle of P&L accounting and reporting, leveraging fiscal optimization to protect the firm’s bottom line in a high-volume transaction environment.
Project ownership and autonomy, flat company structure.
~ Company culture is informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, collaborative and entrepreneurial.
Flexible Holidays
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