Senior Transactional Lawyer

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.