Top Counsel Jobs in NYC, NY

Provides senior legal counsel on acquisition finance, syndicated lending, leveraged finance, bridge loans, and related transactions. Advises senior leadership and business stakeholders on complex legal, regulatory, lending, secured-finance, and market matters. Serves as primary legal coverage across multiple transactions, manages external law firms, educates legal colleagues, and supports large-scale strategic solutions for Corporate & Investment Banking.

Provides legal support for equity and debt capital markets transactions, including IPOs, follow-ons, private placements, tender offers, and exchanges. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates transaction documents; advises on securities laws, SEC and FINRA rules, registration exemptions, and regulatory risks; manages external counsel; updates legal templates; supports internal stakeholders; and contributes to regulatory and industry initiatives.

Negotiate complex enterprise AI SaaS agreements and provide commercial legal support to sales, marketing, channel, and customer success teams. Advise on privacy, security, and AI regulatory matters; collaborate with Product Legal; improve contracting processes; and develop templates and playbooks. The role requires strategic judgment, strong negotiation and drafting skills, practical business advice, and the ability to support revenue-generating functions in a rapidly growing technology company.

Support Affirm’s capital markets and bank partnerships teams by structuring and executing financing transactions. Draft, review, and negotiate domestic and international deal documents, advise on lending and securities laws, and guide transactions from strategy through execution. The role also supports capitalization strategy, partner-bank expansion, and special projects while collaborating with internal business teams and external parties.

Lead Deepgram’s corporate legal function, including governance, IPO readiness, financings, M&A, employee equity, international subsidiaries, and regulatory developments. Partner with Finance, People, and company leadership to build scalable legal processes for a fast-growing AI company. Establish an AI-native legal practice while advising on a broad range of startup legal matters.

Commercial Counsel will draft, review, negotiate, and implement complex commercial agreements across customer, vendor, technology, SaaS, licensing, advertising, procurement, and services matters. The role develops contracting processes, templates, playbooks, and training; advises on strategic initiatives, product launches, partnerships, AI, privacy, intellectual property, and emerging technologies; and partners with cross-functional and executive teams to manage legal risk and support growth.

Advise on payments and financial-services regulations across the Americas, including licensing, money transmission, product launches, regulatory filings, and payment flows. Research regulatory developments, provide practical guidance to cross-functional teams, manage external counsel, support regulator and government-relations work, and help improve legal workflows using AI and other tools. The role focuses primarily on US regulation, with opportunities involving Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

Lead CoreWeave’s product regulatory governance program and advise Product, Engineering, AI, Security, Supply Chain, and Operations teams. Responsibilities include reviewing products and AI capabilities, assessing international regulatory risks, embedding privacy, responsible AI, security, and data-governance requirements, advising on market entry and launches, monitoring global laws, and leading regulatory inquiries, audits, investigations, and remediation.

Provides legal and regulatory guidance on cybersecurity, information security, physical security, and global security matters. Drafts and negotiates security contract terms, advises on incident response and crisis management, supports policy advocacy, analyzes regulations across jurisdictions, and counsels senior leaders and security teams. Represents the firm in legal matters, collaborates with outside counsel, and manages complex matters in a regulated financial-services environment.

Serve as a senior privacy legal subject matter expert supporting global privacy compliance, primarily for Udemy. Advise on U.S. and international privacy laws, privacy impact assessments, AI and cybersecurity issues, incidents, data subject requests, regulatory inquiries, product counseling, and privacy program development. Partner with Legal, Privacy, Product, Engineering, and Information Security teams, advise senior leadership, and mentor colleagues.

The Corporate Counsel will handle SEC reporting, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance, while providing legal support and advice to the company on various corporate matters.

Provide legal advice on U.S. and EU payments regulation, support licensing and MTL applications, draft and negotiate commercial and cardholder agreements, manage outside counsel, respond to regulators and audits, and shape internal strategy on payments and crypto compliance.

Provide high-level administrative support to the COO and manage day-to-day NYC office operations, including calendar and travel coordination, expense management, meeting materials, onboarding, vendor and facilities management, office events, confidential communications triage, and ad-hoc projects to support company growth.

Advise product, partnership, legal, risk, and compliance teams on complex global technology and strategic partnership transactions. Draft and negotiate agreements, coordinate local counsel across jurisdictions, assess regulatory paths to market, and manage external counsel and consultants. Build relationships with global stakeholders while supporting fintech product strategy and navigating payments, card network, and banking regulations.

Provide practical U.S. employment law advice to People and business leaders on hiring, performance, accommodations, leaves, investigations, compensation, terminations, restrictive covenants, and wage-and-hour compliance. Draft and review employment documents and policies, support M&A integration, partner cross-functionally to develop compliant practices, assess legal risk, and monitor regulatory changes.

Provide legal counsel to senior leaders of the Equity Finance business on prime brokerage, equity swaps, and related financing transactions; negotiate and document client agreements; advise on U.S. securities, commodities, and regulatory frameworks; manage complex legal projects, outside counsel, policy interpretation, risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement to support business operations and compliance.

Serves as senior employment counsel for the Americas, advising People & Talent and business leaders on employee lifecycle matters, workplace investigations, policies, disputes, litigation, compensation, benefits, equity, contractor classification, EOR arrangements, and cross-border employment risks. Coordinates multi-jurisdiction advice and external counsel while building scalable employment-law playbooks and templates for a global, regulated fintech.

Provide business affairs legal support for entertainment and technology matters: draft, negotiate, and track commercial agreements across music, talent, technology, marketing and distribution; advise internal stakeholders on IP, copyright, corporate and contractual issues; assess legal risks; and support publishing labels in a fast-paced, in-person New York office environment.

Lead global regulatory strategy and execution for technology infrastructure, operational resilience, and enterprise resilience. Interpret regulations, translate them into technology control frameworks and operational guidance, advise on third-party technology contracts, coordinate cross-functional implementation, and engage regulators and legal stakeholders across jurisdictions. The role requires a law degree and significant regulatory experience in payments, banking, or financial services.

Provides legal counsel to Capital One’s Commercial Real Estate and Multifamily Agency Finance businesses. Advises on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA/HUD lending requirements, securitization sub-servicing documentation, regulatory compliance, negotiations, outside counsel, industry developments, training, and process improvements. Partners with business, risk, compliance, operations, and other legal teams while serving as a strategic subject matter expert.

Lead outside counsel pricing strategy, matter budgeting, fee negotiations, and value measurement for a global legal department. Advise senior stakeholders using financial and matter-performance insights, evaluate AI impacts, implement AI-enabled pricing tools, and drive legal transformation across Legal, Finance, Legal Technology, and supplier-management teams. Develop training, change-management programs, governance practices, and executive recommendations while managing multiple firmwide workstreams.

The Associate General Counsel will advise Vetcove on commercial contracting, SaaS and product matters, privacy, data security, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth initiatives. Responsibilities include negotiating commercial agreements, counseling product and business teams, translating complex legal requirements into practical guidance, and supporting new products, markets, commercial models, and regulated workflows. The role partners cross-functionally within a fast-growing, remote technology company serving the veterinary industry.

Assistant General Counsel will serve as Attain’s second in-house lawyer, focusing on adtech data privacy and high-volume commercial contracting. Responsibilities include negotiating data licenses, MSAs, DPAs, SOWs, and order forms; advising product and engineering teams on data use; building the privacy program; supporting fintech legal matters; developing legal operations, AI-enabled workflows, playbooks, templates, and policies; managing outside counsel; and handling broader corporate, employment, IP, financing, licensing, and regulatory needs.

Build and operate Adyen’s enterprise AI governance framework, translating global AI and privacy laws into policies, standards, assessments, and practical workflows. Advise on generative and agentic AI, risk classification, model evaluation, fairness, explainability, red teaming, privacy, and human oversight. Partner cross-functionally with Risk, Security, Product, Compliance, Legal, Engineering, and Data Science; deliver training, monitor regulatory developments, and support audits and inquiries.

Advise and lead complex financial-services litigation across the Commercial & Investment Bank and Asset & Wealth Management lines. Manage litigation strategy from intake through resolution, oversee outside counsel, handle discovery, depositions and subpoenas, provide pre-litigation counseling, and create playbooks to reduce repeat risk. Collaborate with senior business leaders and firm management.