# Senior Associate Lawyer

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $126,000 - 157,600 CAD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## The Role

As a Senior Associate Lawyer at Carta, you will join the Contracts - North Americas function, managing the full lifecycle of commercial contracts for clients. You will work directly with sophisticated investment fund and asset manager clients, alongside fellow lawyers and paralegals.

## Responsibilities

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

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

- 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

- Commercially minded and client-focused, with 4+ years of post-law school corporate or transactional experience

- Experienced in transactional law, with a track record of independently negotiating pre-M&A contracts

- Familiar with financial services, having worked with asset managers, investment banks, or other financial services firms

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

- Tech-savvy and adaptable, comfortable working with and evolving a legal technology suite

## Benefits

- Market-competitive salary

- Equity for all full-time roles

- Exceptional benefits

- Commission plans for applicable roles

## Salary Range

The expected cash compensation range for this role is $126,000 - 157,600 CAD in Toronto.

## Skills

### Required
- transactional law
- financial services
- legal technology
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- HighQ
- Ava

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