# Senior Contracts Lawyer

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

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## Description

## The Role

As a Senior Contracts Lawyer at Carta Law, you'll lead high-value negotiations, own key client relationships, and play a significant role in developing junior lawyers and the wider paralegal team.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the negotiation of high-value, complex pre-M&A contracts and multi-party agreements across the client portfolio.

- Own and independently manage key client relationships with sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients.

- Manage external counsel instructions and supervision across relevant matters.

- Drive continuous improvement of Carta's legal technology suite, including Carta Ava , identifying, piloting, and embedding new capabilities.

- Mentor and develop E4 Contract Lawyers and senior paralegals, reviewing their work and providing structured feedback.

- Own and evolve the firm-wide standard clause library and cross-client playbook framework.

## Requirements

- Senior practitioner. You're licensed to practise law in the UK, Europe, US, or Canada, with 5+ PQE.

- Complex negotiator. You have a track record independently leading complex pre-M&A negotiations, including cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters.

- Trusted advisor. You build and sustain trusted advisor status with sophisticated financial services clients and lead senior stakeholder engagement.

- Tech innovator. You're an expert user of Carta Ava, HighQ, and CLM/e-signature platforms, and you drive AI/legal tech adoption across the team.

- Mentor and leader. You develop junior team members with structured feedback and contribute to team strategy and resourcing.

- Commercially sharp. You align legal advice with business objectives and manage external counsel spend effectively.

## Skills

### Required
- pre-M&A contract law
- complex negotiations
- client relationship management
- legal technology
- mentorship

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