Career Associate — Corporate / Asset Management (New York)

A leading law firm is seeking an experienced Career Associate to support its Alternative Asset Opportunities practice group in New York. This full-time role focuses on fund investments, co-investments, secondary transactions, and related transactional and governance matters for several of the firm's largest institutional investor clients.

The associate will serve as a dedicated legal resource for a high-volume client workflow, working independently and building trusted client relationships while drawing on deep subject-matter knowledge of a sophisticated investment platform. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement with periodic in-office or client-facing presence.

Day-to-day work includes drafting, reviewing, and negotiating transfer agreements, subscription agreements, confidentiality agreements, and other documentation for alternative asset transactions; coordinating with corporate, tax, and regulatory colleagues and with client legal, finance, tax, compliance, management, and investor relations teams; and managing a steady pipeline of recurring matters with organized records, templates, and workstreams. The role also involves identifying opportunities to improve forms, build precedent resources, and streamline repeatable workflows.

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and admission in good standing to the bar in the relevant office jurisdiction.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department at an asset management firm, or similar environment, with substantial transactional and/or asset management experience.
• Strong drafting, legal analysis, organizational, and project management skills, with the ability to manage a high volume of matters independently and accurately.
• Knowledge of fund investment, co-investment, and secondary transaction documentation.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with clients and cross-functional teams and serve as a practical, responsive legal partner.
• Experience developing or maintaining document templates, playbooks, precedent libraries, or knowledge management resources.
• Proficiency in using artificial intelligence technologies responsibly and ethically, including identifying appropriate use cases, protecting confidentiality, verifying outputs, and applying independent legal judgment.