# Contract Solutions Counsel

**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 Description

You'll be joining Carta's Contracts team, specifically within the Contracts - North Americas function. Our Contracts team manages the full lifecycle of commercial contracts for clients – from first review through to execution. You'll be the direct day-to-day contact for sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients, working alongside fellow lawyers and paralegals.

## Responsibilities

As a Contract Solutions Counsel on the Contracts team, you'll work to:

- Negotiate and manage high volumes of pre-M&A contracts – including NDAs, confidentiality agreements, NRLs, joinders, and engagement letters – directly liaising with counterparties and adhering to agreed turnaround times

- Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for clients, building trusted advisor relationships with sophisticated investment funds and asset managers

- Maintain and update client playbooks on an ongoing basis, ensuring consistency and quality across all contract negotiations

- Collaborate with and mentor junior lawyers and paralegals, reviewing their work and contributing to a high-performing team culture

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Carta's legal technology suite, identifying ways to innovate using AI-backed tools

## Requirements

We are looking for someone who is:

- Commercially minded and client-focused. You communicate legal advice crisply and concisely, building strong relationships with sophisticated financial services clients.

- Experienced in transactional law. You have 6-8+ years of post law school corporate or transactional experience, with a track record of independently negotiating pre-M&A contracts (NDAs, NRLs, joinders, engagement letters).

- Familiar with financial services. You have experience working with asset managers, investment banks, or other financial services firms and understand their expectations.

- Law Degree and licensed to practice. You are licensed to practice law in the Americas (US/Canada).

- Tech-savvy and adaptable. You are comfortable working with and evolving a legal technology suite (e.g. AI tools, HighQ), and an interest in legal tech or AI is a strong plus.

- A self-starter who owns their work. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, prioritize effectively, and are always looking for ways to improve and innovate.

## Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:

- $157,600 - $197,000 CAD in Toronto

## Skills

### Required
- transactional law
- pre-M&A contracts
- financial services
- legal technology
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- legal tech
- AI

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