Top Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

Lead corporate transactions globally, managing fundraising, financings, M&A, secondary sales, governance, and entity structuring. Advise senior execs, coordinate cross‑functional and regulatory teams, manage external counsel, and build scalable transaction playbooks and LegalTech/AI‑enabled processes.

Provide legal advice to product, sales, and local teams across multiple regions; negotiate and draft complex commercial and technology agreements; coordinate with local counsel and manage external advisors; support regulatory strategy, market entry, and government/regulator outreach for fintech/payments products.

Lead the global obligations management function: build and maintain a central obligations register, RFI knowledge base, and audit register; map regulatory and partner mandates to controls; drive automated GRC tooling and dashboards; partner with regional legal, compliance, risk, and audit teams to ensure traceable remediation and audit-ready evidence across jurisdictions.

Lead and scale a global controls and obligations management framework across jurisdictions and products. Translate regulatory requirements into controls, testing, reporting, and exam-ready documentation; manage control design, testing programs, regulatory reporting governance, and responses to exams and audits. Maintain obligations and controls register, engage third parties, and lead a high-performing team to ensure practical, scalable, regulator-ready compliance.

Lead the Corporate Legal function supporting governance, M&A, subsidiary management, stock plan administration, and compliance. Manage a global team, advise on corporate finance, investor relations, ESG, and support transactions, due diligence, and post-close integration to scale toward IPO while collaborating cross-functionally.

Provide senior regulatory legal advice for payments and financial services across the Americas. Lead licensing, registration, and compliance workstreams; engage regulators; support market entry and product launches; manage external counsel; partner with product, risk, and compliance teams; and shape regional regulatory strategy.

Lead and scale Airwallex's global AML and sanctions policy, governance, and risk framework. Define enterprise risk appetite, design risk assessment methodology and data-scoring models, embed automated controls with Product/Data Science/Engineering, oversee regulatory examination defense and executive reporting, and build a global second-line team to support growth and regulatory engagement.