# Legal Counsel (Private Markets)

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $157,600 - $197,000 CAD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Summary

You'll join Carta's Contracts team as a Legal Counsel, focusing on pre-M&A contracts for sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients.

## Responsibilities

- Negotiate and manage high volumes of pre-M&A contracts, including NDAs, confidentiality agreements, NRLs, joinders, and engagement letters

- Serve as primary day-to-day contact for clients, building trusted advisor relationships

- Maintain and update client playbooks to ensure consistency and quality across contract negotiations

- Collaborate with and mentor junior lawyers and paralegals

- Contribute to improving Carta's legal technology suite, leveraging AI-backed tools

## Requirements

- 7-8+ years of post-law school corporate or transactional experience

- Experience working with asset managers, investment banks, or other financial services firms

- Law degree and licensed to practice in the Americas (US/Canada)

- Commercially minded and client-focused, with strong communication skills

- Tech-savvy and adaptable, with an interest in legal tech or AI

## Salary

The expected cash compensation range for this role is $157,600 - $197,000 CAD in Toronto.

## Skills

### Required
- transactional law
- financial services
- contract negotiation
- legal tech
- AI

### Nice to have
- HighQ
- Ava

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