# Contracts Lawyer

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

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## Description

## The Role

You'll join Carta Law's UK Contracts team at the heart of its pre-M&A practice. As a Contract Lawyer, you'll independently negotiate high volumes of pre-M&A contracts while acting as the primary day-to-day contact for sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients.

## 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, including Carta Ava and HighQ, to increase speed and consistency.

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

## Requirements

- Qualified and experienced. You're licensed to practise law in the UK, Europe, US, or Canada, with 3+ PQE.

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

- Trusted advisor. You build lasting relationships with sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients and communicate legal advice crisply.

- Commercially minded. You balance legal risk against business objectives and flag issues before they escalate.

- Tech-forward. You're proficient with AI-backed contract review tools like Carta Ava, HighQ, and CLM/e-signature systems, and look for ways to improve them.

- Collaborative leader. You mentor junior lawyers and paralegals and take ownership of your work in a fast-paced environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Contract negotiation
- Pre-M&A contracts
- Client relationships
- Legal technology
- Leadership

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