Senior Transactional Lawyer
Carta provides an intelligent platform for private capital operations, connecting data, workflows, and people. Its products support equity management, fund administration, portfolio analytics, compliance, tax, and related services for companies, funds, investors, and legal teams.
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
About the Role
You will act as the primary day-to-day legal contact for institutional investors and asset manager clients, advising on compliance risk factors across live transactions. You will work with private equity deal teams to unpack complex deal structures, identify counterparties, and conduct risk analysis covering AML, bribery and corruption, financial crime, and reputational risk. You will review fund structures, SPVs, partnerships, and trusts to map corporate ownership and fund flows. You will liaise with deal teams, legal, compliance, and counterparties to gather materials and complete reviews on time, and collaborate with clients' legal and compliance teams to ensure transactions meet AML/CTF regulations and jurisdictional requirements.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer licensed to practice in the UK or Europe (other comparable jurisdictions considered)
- 4-6+ years PQE in regulatory or investment compliance
- Experience representing asset managers, institutional investors, or other financial services clients
- Deep familiarity with complex asset management structures, fund structures, SPVs, offshore vehicles, and multi-jurisdictional counterparties
- Comfortable as the named contact for demanding institutional clients in a fast-paced financial services environment
- Right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary day-to-day legal contact for institutional investors and asset managers
- Advise on compliance risk factors across live transactions
- Analyze complex transaction structures and identify counterparties
- Conduct multi-dimensional risk analysis covering AML, bribery and corruption, financial crime, and reputational risk
- Review fund structures, SPVs, partnerships, and trusts to map corporate ownership and fund flows
- Liaise with deal teams, legal, compliance, and counterparties to gather required materials
- Ensure transactions meet AML/CTF regulations, internal policies, and jurisdictional requirements