# Senior Transactional Lawyer

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## The Role

As a Senior Transactional Lawyer at Carta, you will join the Compliance – Transactional team and serve as the day-to-day legal contact for institutional investors and asset manager clients across private equity, infrastructure, credit, and real estate strategies.

## Responsibilities

- Be the client's trusted deal-side compliance partner, advising on compliance risk factors across live transactions with clarity and commercial pragmatism.

- Unpack transaction structures, working closely with private equity deal teams to understand complex deal anatomy, identify counterparties, and conduct multi-dimensional risk analysis.

- Investigate ownership and control to find what matters, reviewing fund structures, SPVs, partnerships, and trusts to map corporate ownership and fund flows.

- Drive the materials process, liaising with deal teams, legal, compliance, and relevant counterparties to gather what's needed to complete reviews on time.

- Ensure deals close compliantly, collaborating with clients' legal and compliance teams to confirm that transactions meet AML/CTF regulations, internal policies, and jurisdictional requirements.

## Requirements

- Qualified lawyer with transactional compliance experience, licensed to practice in the UK or Europe.

- 4-6+ years PQE recommended in regulatory or investment compliance.

- Experience representing asset managers, institutional investors, or other financial services clients.

- Commercially sharp and solutions-first, approaching compliance as an enabler of deal velocity.

- Deeply familiar with complex asset management structures, having reviewed fund structures, SPVs, offshore vehicles, and multi-jurisdictional counterparties in a live deal context.

- Client-ready under pressure, comfortable as the named contact for demanding institutional clients in a fast-paced financial services environment.

- Right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship.

## Skills

### Required
- transactional compliance
- regulatory experience
- investment compliance
- AML/CTF regulations

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