Our client is seeking an experienced attorney to serve as a dedicated legal resource in a high-volume asset management workflow for one of its largest private equity clients, with responsibility spanning recurring fund and management-company matters. This Boston-based role calls for sound judgment, strong drafting, and the ability to build trusted working relationships across client and internal teams.
The Work
- Provide day-to-day legal support for fund operations, including drafting and reviewing confidentiality agreements, intercompany agreements, and related asset management documents.
- Draft, review, and negotiate fund-interest transfer agreements and supporting documentation, including transfer consents and due diligence materials.
- Support management-company and general-partner entity matters by preparing organizational documents, internal economic arrangements, award agreements, and vesting schedules.
- Support fund formation, co-investments, upper-tier carried-interest grants, and related fund operations for a sophisticated private equity platform.
- Coordinate with legal, finance, tax, compliance, management, and investor relations teams to implement transactions accurately and maintain clear records.
- Manage a steady pipeline of recurring matters, monitor deliverables and deadlines, and maintain organized records, templates, and workstreams.
- Identify ways to improve forms, build precedent resources, streamline repeatable workflows, and reduce legal and operational risk.
What You Bring
- At least five years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department at a private equity firm, asset management firm, or similar environment.
- Substantial experience with private equity, fund formation, investment funds, or fund management matters.
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school and admission in good standing to the Massachusetts bar.
- Strong drafting and legal analysis skills, with knowledge of fund-related agreements, carried-interest arrangements, management incentive structures, transfer documentation, and related governance matters.
- Ability to manage a high volume of matters independently and accurately, with strong organization and project management skills.
- Capacity to build trusted relationships with clients and cross-functional teams and to serve as a practical, responsive legal partner.
- Experience developing or maintaining document templates, playbooks, precedent libraries, or knowledge-management resources.
- Ability to use artificial intelligence technologies responsibly and ethically, including protecting confidentiality, verifying outputs, identifying appropriate use cases, and exercising independent legal judgment.
Why Consider It
This role offers meaningful ownership of a consistent, high-volume client workflow and exposure to fund formation, transfers, carried interest, and management-company matters within a sophisticated private equity platform.
The attorney can build trusted client and cross-functional relationships while helping improve repeatable processes.
Compensation & Benefits
The position has a hybrid arrangement with periodic in-office or client-facing presence, a firm-stated base salary range of $290,000–$375,000, and eligibility for a discretionary year-end bonus.
Confidentiality
This is a confidential opportunity. Contact Advocates Legal Recruiting to discuss the role and receive additional details about the client and team. All inquiries will be handled confidentially.