Corporate Transactions Attorney M&A & Capital Markets

Candidate Requirements

• Licensed attorney (JD required)
• Substantive transactional experience at a law firm
• Experience drafting and negotiating transactional documents
• Comfortable independently managing deal workflow and closings

Roles Not Suitable For

• Litigators seeking to pivot into transactions
• Candidates without substantive drafting experience
• Purely regulatory or compliance‑only backgrounds
• Candidates without law firm transactional experience

Open Positions

Mid‑Level Corporate/M&A Associate Attorney – Los Angeles, CA

Compensation: $240,000 – $290,000

Experience: 6–8 Years

Work Model: Hybrid

This role focuses on sophisticated middle‑market M&A transactions including PE buyouts, strategic acquisitions, growth investments, and sell‑side deals. Attorneys independently manage transactions end‑to‑end, negotiate definitive agreements, coordinate diligence teams, and serve as primary client contacts on leanly staffed deal teams.

Financial Services Associate Attorney – Charlotte, NC; Charleston, SC

Compensation: $155,000 – $340,000

Experience: 1–7 Years

Work Model: Hybrid

This role focuses on syndicated credit facilities, leveraged finance transactions, renewable energy finance, securitization, public bond work, and commercial lending transactions. Attorneys work across multiple finance verticals with substantial drafting and transaction management responsibility.

Financial Services Associate Attorney – North Carolina; South Carolina

Compensation: $155,000 – $340,000

Experience: 1–7 Years

Work Model: Hybrid / Remote Flexibility

This role focuses on finance transactional work involving syndicated lending, leveraged finance, securitization, public bond financing, and real estate finance. Candidates with strong transactional lending experience and working knowledge of credit facilities are strongly preferred.

Capital Markets Mid‑Level Associate Attorney – Los Angeles, CA

Compensation: $260,000 – $390,000

Experience: 3–6 Years

Work Model: Hybrid (Mon–Thu in office)

This role focuses on IPOs, follow‑on offerings, high‑yield debt, convertible notes, and complex securities transactions. Attorneys lead sophisticated capital markets deals, manage transaction execution, coordinate with underwriters and issuers, and handle both equity and debt offerings.

Capital Markets Associate Attorney – New York, NY; Boston, MA

Compensation: $290,000 – $315,000

Experience: 4–8 Years

Work Model: Hybrid

This role focuses on SEC reporting, debt and equity offerings, registration statements, corporate governance, and public company compliance matters. Attorneys independently run capital markets transactions from initiation through closing with substantial client contact and accelerated partnership‑track exposure.

Securities & Capital Markets Associate Attorney – Rochester, NY; Buffalo, NY; Albany, NY

Compensation: $139,000 – $177,000

Experience: 4–8 Years

Work Model: Hybrid

This role focuses on Securities Act and Exchange Act compliance, registered offerings, SEC reporting, corporate governance, and public company advisory work. Attorneys advise issuers on securities compliance, governance matters, and capital markets transactions with substantial client interaction and long‑term partnership track potential.

Global Transportation Finance Associate Attorney – Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL

Compensation: $225,000 – $310,000

Experience: 2–6 Years

Work Model: Hybrid

This role focuses on aviation finance, transportation asset finance, railcar finance, maritime finance, and complex commercial finance transactions. Attorneys work closely with shareholders on sophisticated global transportation financing matters with substantial drafting and deal management responsibility.