Alternative Asset Opportunities Career Associate Attorney

Job Description

Job Description

Alternative Asset Opportunities Career Associate Attorney

Direct Counsel is seeking an Alternative Asset Opportunities Career Associate Attorney with 5+ years of relevant experience to join a leading global law firm and its highly regarded Alternative Asset Opportunities practice.

Locations

Boston or New York

Position Overview

This full-time position focuses on fund investments, co-investments, secondary transactions, and related transactional and governance matters for sophisticated institutional investor clients. The Career Associate will serve as a dedicated legal resource within a high-volume workflow, providing day-to-day support on alternative asset transactions across a variety of asset classes and geographies.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced transactional or asset management attorney who can work independently, manage a significant volume of matters, and build trusted relationships with institutional clients and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day legal support to institutional investor clients on alternative asset transactions.

• Handle confidentiality agreements, subscription agreements, transfer agreements, KYC/AML processes, investment structuring, and related investment matters.

• Draft, review, and negotiate documentation for fund investments, co-investments, and secondary transactions .

• Coordinate with corporate, tax, and regulatory attorneys to structure and execute transactions.

• Work closely with clients' legal, finance, tax, compliance, management, and investor relations teams to implement transactions accurately.

• Manage a steady pipeline of recurring matters, tracking deliverables, deadlines, records, templates, and workstreams.

• Identify opportunities to improve forms, develop precedent resources, streamline recurring workflows, and reduce legal and operational risk.

• Apply sound legal judgment, strong drafting skills, and practical project management to deliver accurate work in a fast-paced asset management environment.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department at an asset management firm or similar environment.

• Substantial experience with transactional and/or asset management matters.

• J.D. from an accredited law school.

• Admission in good standing to the bar in the relevant office jurisdiction.

• Strong knowledge of fund investment, co-investment, and secondary transaction documentation .

• Strong drafting, legal analysis, organizational, and project management skills.

• Ability to independently manage a high volume of matters accurately and efficiently.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build trusted client relationships.

• 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.

Compensation

The anticipated salary range for this position is $265,000–$350,000 annually , depending on qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. This position is also eligible for a discretionary year-end bonus.