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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates deep expertise in banking and financial regulation, asset management, and insurance regulatory matters, with a strong focus on advisory and transactional work. Proven ability to build and mentor teams while developing client relationships and establishing operational frameworks in a legal context.
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New York Bar AdmissionBanking And Financial Regulation ExpertiseAdvisory And Transactional OrientationClient Relationship DevelopmentAI-Driven Legal Tool Development
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Hard Skills
Financial TransactionsStructured ProductsRegulatory AnalysisDocumentationNegotiationLegal MemosEnd-To-End Matter OwnershipCross-Border ExperienceClient Needs AssessmentQuality Standards Setting
Soft Skills
Commercial AcumenMentoringEntrepreneurial MindsetCollaborationCommunication
Tools & Technologies
AI AutomationLegal Workflow Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
New York Bar Admission
Industry Keywords
Asset ManagementInsurance RegulationFinancial SectorCompliance LeadershipGeneral Counsel Relationships
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Advise banks, asset managers, funds, and insurers on regulatory, transactional, and structuring questions across US and cross-border mandates
- Own matters end-to-end, including scoping, analysis, memos, documentation, negotiation, and regulator-facing work
- Serve as trusted counterpart to general counsel, heads of compliance, and in-house teams
- Turn each matter into a reusable AI-native service containing analysis, precedents, and decision logic
- Work with engineers to build tooling that supports legal work
- Set quality bars and review standards for defensible AI-produced legal work
- Help establish the New York practice, including structure, intake, precedent library, and engagement terms
- Develop the client base with the founders from initial conversation through signed mandate
- Bring in and mentor subsequent lawyers
- Work directly with the managing partner, founders, and engineers to shape the firm, client base, and operating model
Requirements
What you’ll need- Admitted to the New York bar, with a clean disciplinary record
- Several years at a leading US firm or in-house at a bank, fund, or insurer, with real ownership of financial-sector matters
- Deep expertise in at least one of: banking and financial regulation, funds and asset management, insurance regulatory, structured products, or financial transactions
- Advisory and transactional orientation
- Commercially sharp, with the ability to understand client needs and price and scope work accordingly
- Entrepreneurial interest in building a firm from the first mandate
- Native/fluent English
- Based in or willing to move to New York
- Existing relationships with GCs or compliance leadership at banks, funds, or insurers (bonus)
- Cross-border experience with European financial institutions (bonus)
- Experience building something with AI, such as an automation, agent, or workflow (bonus)
- Authorized to work in the US
- Must be admitted to the New York bar
Benefits
Comp & perks- Partner-level scope from day one: your own clients, your own mandates, your own name on the work
- Expertise productized and deployed repeatedly with leverage beyond a traditional firm
- Sophisticated financial-sector clients and substantive mandates without the billable-hour machine
- Compensation that rewards what you build and bring in, without the capital commitment and lock-in of an equity partnership
- Direct line to the managing partner, founders, and engineers building the product