# Senior Contract Solutions Lawyer, APAC

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

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## Description

You're joining Carta's Contracts - APAC team, part of Carta Law, the largest AI-native law firm for private capital.

As a Senior Contract Solutions Lawyer, you'll independently negotiate and execute high volumes of pre-M&A contracts, serve as the primary day-to-day contact for sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients, and maintain and evolve client-specific contract playbooks.

Responsibilities:

- Independently negotiate and execute high volumes of pre-M&A contracts , NDAs, NRLs, joinders, and engagement letters , liaising directly with counterparties against agreed SLAs.

- Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients, building trusted advisor relationships.

- Maintain and evolve client-specific contract playbooks, ensuring consistency and quality across every negotiation.

- Mentor junior lawyers and paralegals, reviewing their work and contributing to a high-performing team culture.

- Use and continuously improve Carta's legal technology suite, identifying ways to innovate using AI-backed tools.

- Manage the full contract lifecycle for each matter, from first review through execution and system logging.

Requirements:

- Law Degree and licensed to practice in any APAC jurisdictions, the UK, US, or Canada, with 5+ PQE.

- Track record of independently negotiating pre-M&A contracts like NDAs, NRLs, joinders, and engagement letters in a financial services legal environment.

- Ability to build lasting relationships with sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients and communicate legal advice crisply.

- Commercially minded, balancing legal risk against business objectives and flagging issues before they escalate.

- Collaborative leader, mentoring junior lawyers and paralegals and taking ownership of work in a fast-paced environment.

- Proficiency with AI-backed contract review tools and willingness to improve them.

- Language capability in Japanese, Korean, or Mandarin is highly preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- AI-backed contract review tools
- pre-M&A contracts
- financial services legal environment
- client relationship building

### Nice to have
- Japanese
- Korean
- Mandarin
- tech-forward skills

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