212-373-3000

212-757-3990

September 1, 2020

Virtu Financial, Inc.

One Liberty Plaza

165 Broadway

New York, NY 10006

Virtu Financial, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to Virtu Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) of the Company, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “Rules”). You have asked us to furnish our opinion as to the legality of the securities being registered under the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement relates to the registration under the Act of an additional 5,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, of the Company (collectively, the “Shares”), issuable in respect of awards to be granted under the Virtu Financial, Inc. Amended and Restated 2015 Management Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Amended Plan”).

In connection with the furnishing of this opinion, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the following documents (collectively, the “Documents”):

1. the Registration Statement;

2. the Amended Plan and the forms of award agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”) relating to awards granted under the Amended Plan;

3. the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, included or incorporated by reference as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registration Statement; and

4. the Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company, included or incorporated by reference as Exhibit 4.2 to the Registration Statement.

In addition, we have examined (i) such corporate records of the Company that we have considered appropriate, including copies of resolutions of the board of directors of the Company relating to the issuance of the Shares, certified by the Company and (ii) such other certificates, agreements and documents that we deemed relevant and necessary as a basis for the opinion expressed below. We have also relied upon the factual matters contained in the representations and warranties of the Company made in the Documents and upon certificates of public officials and the officers of the Company.

In our examination of the documents referred to above, we have assumed, without independent investigation, the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all individuals who have executed any of the documents reviewed by us, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified, photostatic, reproduced or conformed copies of valid existing agreements or other documents, the authenticity of all the latter documents and that the statements regarding matters of fact in the certificates, records, agreements, instruments and documents that we have examined are accurate and complete.

Based upon the above, and subject to the stated assumptions, exceptions and qualifications, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Companyand, when issued, delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Amended Plan and any applicable Agreement under the Amended Plan, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

The opinion expressed above is limited to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Our opinion is rendered only with respect to the laws, and the rules, regulations and orders under those laws, that are currently in effect.

We hereby consent to use of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required by the Act or the Rules.

	Very truly yours,

	/s/ Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

	PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON & GARRISON LLP