Overview
This role is for the firm’s first lawyer advising banks, funds, and insurers from New York.
Responsibilities include running real mandates for sophisticated financial-sector clients—regulatory, transactional, and advisory work where judgment is required and answers are not template-driven. The work is primarily non-contentious by design, with litigation also included. Each matter you solve should become a reusable, AI-native service the firm can deploy for future clients.
Responsibilities
- 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 a trusted counterpart to general counsel, heads of compliance, and in-house teams
- Turn each matter into a reusable, AI-native service (analysis, precedents, and decision logic)
- Work alongside engineers to build tooling that supports and accelerates the work
- Set quality standards and review practices to make AI-produced legal work defensible
- Help stand up and shape the New York practice, including structure, intake, precedent library, and engagement terms
- Develop the client base together with founders, from first conversation through signed mandate
- Bring in and mentor lawyers who follow you as the practice grows
Requirements
- 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 experience in at least one of:
- Banking and financial regulation
- Funds and asset management
- Insurance regulatory
- Structured products
- Financial transactions
- Advisory and transactional work style
- Commercial judgment: ability to identify what the client actually needs and to price and scope work accordingly
- Entrepreneurial motivation to build a firm from the first mandate
- Native/fluent English
- Based in or moving to New York
Preferred Qualifications
- Existing relationships with general counsel or compliance leadership at banks, funds, or insurers
- Cross-border experience with European financial institutions
- Experience building with AI (e.g., automation, agents, workflows)—not just using AI
Location
New York (based in or moving to New York)