Mid-Level Corporate Associate

About the company

Our client is a law firm.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead corporate deal work for early-stage businesses and their investors, from initial advice through closing. The position involves frequent direct contact with business leaders, hands-on document work and coordination with colleagues in other locations. It sits on a partnership track and offers the chance to grow your own client base.

What you'll do

- Advise young businesses on setting up entities, governance and day-to-day corporate questions as they scale.

- Run equity financing transactions for either the business or the investor side, guiding each from first terms through completion.

- Serve as a trusted counselor to founders, senior executives and funds, with substantial responsibility for client communication.

- Prepare and negotiate transaction paperwork, including simple early-stage funding instruments and larger investment agreements.

- Support clients through acquisitions and commercial agreements.

- Oversee major parts of a transaction, including coordinating junior lawyers and specialists.

- Work with colleagues in other offices as part of a national practice.

- Develop your own client base using the firm's business development support.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Roughly 3 to 6 years of corporate transactional practice, with a focus on startups or investors.

- Admission to the New York bar, or eligibility to be admitted.

- Authorization to work in the US without sponsorship.

- Comfort working directly with founders and investors in a hands-on setting with limited administrative support.

- Ability to explain your past work concretely, including the number and kinds of deals and your role in each.

Bonus points

- Hands-on experience with financing rounds across several stages.

- Experience acting for startups, founders or investment funds.

- Broad corporate experience across emerging business matters.

- Familiarity with SAFEs, convertible notes and similar instruments.

- Exposure to fund formation or startup acquisitions.

- Existing relationships in the startup and investor community.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 240,000 to 280,000 per year

- Hours-based bonus

- Origination bonus

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office

- Full-time