Investment Funds Attorney

Overview

The organization is seeking an experienced investment funds attorney to lead and help build its Investment Funds practice. This role is designed for a candidate with an entrepreneurial mindset who is interested in developing the practice, deepening client relationships, contributing to business development, shaping a growing department, and supporting the organization’s continued growth.

The ideal candidate will have at least five years of meaningful experience in investment funds and fund formation, with a particular focus on venture capital and private equity funds. Experience representing emerging and established fund sponsors, general partners, management companies, and investment platforms is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients throughout the lifecycle of private investment funds, including:
  • Fund structuring and formation
  • Sponsor and management company arrangements
  • Offering and governing documents
  • Investor negotiations
  • Side letters
  • Regulatory considerations
  • Fund closings
  • Ongoing fund operations
• Take primary responsibility for sophisticated fund formation matters.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, providing practical, commercial guidance.
• Help expand the breadth and sophistication of the organization’s existing funds capabilities.
• Support practice growth alongside the organization’s broader emerging companies, venture capital, private equity, and transactional platform.
• Contribute to shaping the Investment Funds practice through leadership, relationship-building, and business development.
• Mentor and help develop more junior attorneys as the practice expands.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of substantial investment funds and fund formation experience.
• Particular experience forming and advising venture capital and private equity funds.
• Experience representing fund sponsors, general partners, management companies, and other investment platforms.
• Strong drafting, structuring, negotiation, and project-management skills.
• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and taking primary responsibility for matters.
• Strong judgment and the ability to offer practical, commercial advice.
• Highly self-motivated and able to develop and grow client relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in mentoring and developing more junior attorneys as the practice expands.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with genuine enthusiasm for building something rather than simply filling a role within an existing structure.

Compensation & Benefits

Not specified in the provided description.