Lawyer

The Role

You are the firm's first lawyer advising banks, funds, and insurers out of New York

You will run real mandates for sophisticated financial-sector clients: regulatory, transactional, and advisory work where the answer is not in a template and the client is paying for judgment. Non-contentious by design. We will litigate too.

And every matter you solve becomes a product. Working directly with the managing partner, founders, and our engineers, you turn your own expertise into AI-native services the firm can deploy for the next client in a fraction of the time. That is the whole thesis, and you are the person who proves it.

This is a firm to be built, not a seat to fill. You will shape the practice, the client base, and how the work gets done.

What You Will Do

Client work

• Advise banks, asset managers, funds, and insurers on regulatory, transactional, and structuring questions across US and cross-border mandates
• Own matters end-to-end: scoping, analysis, memos, documentation, negotiation, regulator-facing work
• Be the trusted counterpart to general counsel, heads of compliance, and in-house teams

Productizing the practice

• Turn each matter into a reusable, AI-native service: the analysis, the precedents, the decision logic
• Work side by side with our engineers to build the tooling that does the work with you
• Set the quality bar and the review standards that make AI-produced legal work defensible

Building the firm

• Help stand up the New York practice: structure, intake, precedent library, engagement terms
• Develop the client base together with the founders, from first conversation to signed mandate
• Bring in and mentor the lawyers who follow you

This list will not stay static. As the firm grows, so does your scope.

Who You Are

• Admitted to the New York bar, with a clean disciplinary record
• Several years at a leading US firm or in-house at a bank, fund, or insurer, with real ownership of financial-sector matters
• Deep in at least one of: banking and financial regulation, funds and asset management, insurance regulatory, structured products, or financial transactions
• Advisory and transactional by temperament.
• Commercially sharp. You can read what a client actually needs and price and scope the work accordingly
• Entrepreneurial. The prospect of building a firm from the first mandate is the reason you are interested
• Native/fluent English, based in or moving to New York

Bonus

• Existing relationships with GCs or compliance leadership at banks, funds, or insurers
• Cross-border experience with European financial institutions
• You have built something with AI, not just used it. An automation, an agent, a workflow. Tell us what it does