Counsel
Carta provides an intelligent platform for private capital operations, connecting data, workflows, and people.
About Carta
Carta operates a platform for private capital that helps companies, private equity and venture capital firms, limited partners, and other financial organizations manage portfolios, move money, and model investment scenarios. Its offerings include equity and cap table management, valuations, compensation, liquidity, fund administration, fund tax, SPVs, deal CRM, portfolio valuations, loan operations, LP analytics, compliance, contracts, and attorney-led legal services. Carta combines software, AI capabilities, and expert human services for private capital workflows.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will negotiate and manage high volumes of pre-M&A contracts, including NDAs, confidentiality agreements, NRLs, joinders, and engagement letters. You will liaise directly with counterparties, advise sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients, maintain client playbooks, review junior colleagues’ work, mentor lawyers and paralegals, and improve legal technology workflows using AI-backed tools and HighQ.
Requirements
- 6-8+ years of post-law-school corporate or transactional law experience
- Experience independently negotiating pre-M&A contracts
- Experience working with asset managers, investment banks, or other financial services firms
- Law degree
- License to practice law in the Americas, including the US or Canada
- Comfort working with legal technology such as AI tools and HighQ
- Strong client communication and relationship-building skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Responsibilities
- Negotiate and manage high volumes of pre-M&A contracts
- Liaise directly with counterparties and meet agreed turnaround times
- Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for investment fund and asset manager clients
- Build trusted advisor relationships with clients
- Maintain and update client playbooks
- Review the work of junior lawyers and paralegals
- Mentor junior lawyers and paralegals
- Identify improvements for AI-backed legal technology tools
Benefits
- Equity for full-time roles