Top Legal Counsel Jobs in NYC, NY

Legal Counsel will handle commercial contract reviews, corporate matters, board consents, equity grants, fund and investment issues, side letters, secondary transactions, and regulatory questions. The role advises on securities and investment-management laws, supports bespoke fund structures, uses AI-assisted legal workflows, and develops reusable guidance, templates, and processes. Close collaboration with Product, Engineering, Fund Operations, Finance, Tax, Compliance, and Customer Success teams is required.

Provides senior corporate, regulatory, commercial, healthcare, privacy, and intellectual property legal counsel. Drafts and negotiates customer, vendor, licensing, data use, and other business agreements; advises on product compliance, contracts, marketing materials, and risk strategies; manages legal projects and outside counsel; and supports federal, state, and industry compliance activities.

Provide commercial and government-contracting legal support across the contract lifecycle, including drafting, negotiation, compliance, risk review, disputes, and contract administration. Advise on FAR, DFARS, procurement rules, state regulatory requirements, flow-down provisions, cybersecurity obligations, and government disclosures. Develop legal templates, playbooks, approval processes, and compliance procedures while partnering with Sales, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Information Security in a remote, international environment.

The role involves executing legal processes for sales, negotiating complex agreements, collaborating with multiple internal teams, and improving legal documentation for a cloud-based service company.

Advise Booking Holdings’ fintech business on U.S. and Americas payments and financial-services regulation, including money transmission licensing, BSA compliance, regulatory strategy, product development, consumer protection, privacy, and cross-border issues. Partner with business, technology, risk, compliance, finance, and public affairs teams; manage outside counsel; engage regulators; monitor emerging laws; and provide commercially practical advice on payments products and strategic initiatives.

Legal Counsel supports prime brokerage and futures transactional work across North America. Responsibilities include negotiating financial services contracts, updating trading agreements, managing client documentation and relationships, assessing contractual risks, advising internal stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC, exchange, and clearinghouse requirements.

Provides legal and regulatory guidance on digital assets, tokenized securities, and SEC-regulated entities. Supports securities-law compliance, product launches, transactions, regulatory examinations, audits, policies, and external counsel management. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements while monitoring developments affecting digital assets and securities markets.

Negotiate and structure commercial agreements across the ad tech and digital advertising ecosystem, including publisher, advertiser, agency, platform, vendor, data licensing, and insertion order agreements. Advise on privacy, data security, consumer protection, intellectual property, and regulatory issues. Partner with sales, product, engineering, finance, marketing, and operations teams, develop scalable legal processes, and use AI tools to improve contract workflows.

Provides legal support for corporate and commercial matters, including contract drafting, negotiation, confidentiality agreements, regulatory compliance, corporate policies, and document management. The role advises on business practices, mitigates legal risk, develops legal training materials, and collaborates with business teams in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

Provide corporate and commercial legal support for strategic partnerships, acquisitions, asset purchases, acqui-hires, and digital-asset transactions. Draft and negotiate commercial and transaction agreements, conduct legal due diligence, advise on regulatory and intellectual property issues, support partner integrations, and develop contracting processes and legal playbooks. Collaborate with business, product, senior stakeholders, and external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.

Provide senior legal counsel for trading and treasury functions across US and London/EUR markets. Lead negotiations on prime brokerage, ISDA/CSA, securities lending, repurchase, and banking documentation. Advise on regulatory compliance for transaction reporting, clearing, margin, custody, and collateral. Partner with Risk, Treasury, and business teams and manage cross-functional projects.

Provide employment-law counsel across the Americas: advise HR and management on hiring, performance, wage/hour, benefits, leaves, investigations, terminations, restructurings, and compliance; manage litigation and agency matters; draft and negotiate employment agreements; develop policies and trainings; monitor legal developments; manage outside counsel and support cross-functional business needs.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel on SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and NFA requirements for securities, derivatives, tokenized securities, prediction markets, and related products. Advises business teams on product launches, contracts, policies, licensing, marketing materials, and cross-border compliance. Represents the company before the SEC, coordinates with external counsel, manages regulatory risks, and supports regulated exchange and broker-dealer operations.

Senior Legal Counsel responsible for building and scaling the corporate legal function, managing equity programs, supporting securities offerings, financings, investments, M&A, JVs, and strategic transactions. The role oversees corporate governance, entity administration, compliance, executive compensation, board and stockholder meetings, and transaction readiness. This counsel will collaborate across Finance, HR, Marketing, and other teams while also supporting commercial, privacy, product, intellectual property, employment, and litigation matters.

Lead legal structuring and operation of US private equity feeder funds, primarily Delaware limited partnerships. Draft and negotiate LPAs, PPMs, subscription documents, and complex agreements; conduct fund-manager and service-provider due diligence; advise on product launches, co-investments, and secondary markets; manage external counsel; and oversee SEC, FINRA, Form ADV, Form D, and Blue Sky filings. Partner with Sales, Operations, and global legal teams to support US growth.

Own and negotiate commercial agreements across customers, vendors, partners, marketplaces, technology, data protection, and confidentiality matters. Advise Sales and go-to-market teams on deal structure, risk, and contracting strategy. Build scalable templates, playbooks, approval processes, and self-service resources. Partner with Security, Privacy, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations on technology transactions, global matters, revenue considerations, and risk management. Improve contracting efficiency and support broader legal priorities.

Serve as fractional Chief Legal Counsel/General Counsel advising alternative asset firms and family offices on securities law, fund formation, regulatory compliance, contracts, transactions, governance, litigation and vendor relationships. Lead fund structuring, investor negotiations, regulatory responses, training, policy development, and special projects while managing outside counsel and legal budgets across US and international jurisdictions.

Legal Counsel will support US expansion by negotiating complex B2B SaaS agreements, advising AI and engineering teams on product risks, managing privacy and security compliance across jurisdictions, and developing scalable legal policies and processes. The role partners with executive leadership and addresses novel generative AI legal issues in a fast-growing technology startup.

Provides the company’s primary legal support across corporate, commercial, regulatory, contract, governance, compliance, employment, and risk matters. Advises the CEO and leadership, reviews and negotiates contracts and SLAs, manages statutory filings and corporate records, supports board documentation, coordinates external counsel, and assists HR, Finance, and Procurement with legal issues.

The Legal Counsel will support all legal matters, handle contracts, compliance, and provide legal guidance for a fast-growing SaaS company, with a focus on the AI space.

Provide legal support for commercialization and product development of an AI-powered ad tech platform: draft and negotiate commercial agreements, manage IP portfolio and complex IP litigation, advise on AI, data, and privacy matters, counsel product teams on compliance and IP protection, and develop automated legal workflows.

Provide expert legal support for global data center client contracts, focusing on complex commercial leases, triple-net leases, service agreements and gigawatt campus projects. Negotiate and draft contracts, manage contractual risk and compliance, advise leadership, support cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, and develop contract templates and procedures to improve efficiency.

Serve as a business-minded legal partner across commercial contracting, corporate matters, employment, privacy, healthcare compliance, product counseling, AI, and general business issues. Negotiate enterprise technology agreements, advise leadership and cross-functional teams, support HIPAA and data protection needs, manage outside counsel, and build scalable legal templates, policies, playbooks, and approval processes.

Provides legal counsel across label, distribution, publishing, and artist management operations. Drafts and negotiates music agreements, advises on deal structures and rights, conducts copyright and chain-of-title research, supports royalty matters, maintains legal templates, and monitors copyright, AI-content, collective bargaining, NFT, and metaverse developments. Partners with A&R, creative, marketing, finance, and operations teams while managing legal risk in a fast-paced environment.

Provides senior legal counsel to a public, high-growth company on securities, capital markets, SEC and NYSE compliance, corporate governance, M&A, strategic transactions, commercial agreements, and Board matters. The role oversees disclosures, proxy statements, insider trading compliance, contracting processes, and regulatory developments while advising executives and directors. It also supports legal workflow improvements using AI-powered tools and requires regular presence in the NYC office.