Corporate Legal Counsel (Capital Markets)

Accountabilities

• Provide practical and creative legal guidance for complex capital markets transactions, including credit facilities and securitizations.

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage transaction documents related to institutional loan sales, servicing arrangements, and consumer lending assets.

• Advise capital markets stakeholders on non-disclosure agreements, engagement letters, transaction agreements, and other commercial documentation.

• Negotiate agreements with existing and prospective clients, including leverage provider agreements, account control agreements, asset transfer agreements, and backup servicing arrangements.

• Provide ongoing legal interpretation of existing agreements and support communications with clients and counterparties.

• Track investor relationships and monitor contractual obligations, requirements, and key provisions across investor agreements.

• Coordinate and execute transaction closings, ensuring documentation and legal workstreams are completed accurately and on schedule.

• Support collections and recoveries activities by facilitating debt sale transactions and managing related agreements and documentation.

• Manage and negotiate contracts and ongoing commercial relationships with banking partners, including program agreements, amendments, and ancillary arrangements.

• Advise business stakeholders on related strategic, operational, and marketing matters.

• Support other commercial contracting and legal matters as needed.

• Build trusted relationships across legal, capital markets, operations, and business teams while independently managing multiple priorities.

Requirements

• 4+ years of legal experience gained in a law firm and/or in-house environment, with progressively increasing responsibility.

• Experience in capital markets and structured finance, including familiarity with secured lending or comparable transactional matters.

• Demonstrated experience leading transactional negotiations and managing complex legal workstreams.

• J.D. degree and active membership in good standing with a state bar.

• Strong understanding of transactional documentation, commercial contracts, and legal risk management.

• Excellent judgment, with the ability to balance legal considerations against practical business objectives.

• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to advise stakeholders at different levels in a fast-moving environment.

• Demonstrated ownership, initiative, and ability to resolve issues independently with limited supervision.

• Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide clear and persuasive legal guidance.

• Ability to adapt to an evolving business environment and develop practical solutions to complex problems.

Benefits

• Annual salary range of $165,000–$241,000, with actual compensation determined by location, experience, and other job-related factors.

• Eligibility for a bonus.

• Generous benefits package.

• Remote work opportunity within the United States.

• Opportunity to work closely with capital markets, business, and legal leadership on sophisticated transactions.

• Broad exposure to structured finance, consumer lending, institutional relationships, and strategic business matters.

• Progressive onboarding roadmap designed to build business knowledge, transactional expertise, and increasing ownership during the first 90 days.