Corporate Counsel, Funds and Transactional Attorney

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New York, NY
Hybrid
Mid level
Fintech • Information Technology • Financial Services
Invest beyond the stock market
The Role
As a Corporate Counsel at Yieldstreet, you will manage legal aspects of transactions, including drafting and negotiating agreements across various asset classes like litigation finance and real estate. You will work with the investment and risk management teams, ensuring compliance and helping to structure offerings and corporate governance documents.
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About the Role

Are you tired of working in a legal practice and looking to transition into one of NYC's fastest scaling start-ups? Yieldstreet is hiring an in-house Corporate Counsel that has strong transactional experience (M&A, leveraged finance, structured finance and/or private funds). This candidate will report directly to our Deputy General Counsel and work closely with the Investments teams in executing new debt and equity originations in asset classes including litigation finance, art, commercial and consumer finance, real estate, aviation, and private equity. You will lead and manage the legal aspects of each deal from formation of the fund to acquisition of the investment to the offering of securities by the fund on Yieldstreet’s platform. We expect you to live, breathe and love complex transactions, innovative structures and securities offerings.

What you'll do:

  • Work closely with the investments team to structure and close transactions and negotiate, draft and manage related loan or investment documentation in various asset classes, including litigation finance, art, commercial and consumer finance, private equity and real estate
  • Negotiate, draft and manage participation and asset purchase agreements, loan purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, and loan facility documentation in the context of a direct lender or participant, as well as other investment documentation, as the context may require
  • Negotiate, draft and manage private placement memoranda, subscription agreements, operating agreements, limited partnership agreements and side letters for newly-created funds
  • Work closely with the portfolio risk management team on issues relating to defaulted or troubled deals, including restructurings, amendments, foreclosures and litigation.
  • Develop an expertise in Yieldstreet’s offering vehicles and structures and work across teams at Yieldstreet to expand our distribution network through improved issuer vehicles and new and innovative structures
  • Manage compliance with legal requirements of warehouse facilities and leverage facilities
  • Work on securities offerings' disclosure documents and related issues for origination deal documentation
  • Attend to corporate governance documents for Yieldstreet and its affiliates
  • Negotiate vendor contracts and other commercial agreements
  • Assist with the general legal needs of Yieldstreet and liaise with various teams and stakeholders both internally and externally

What you’ll need:

  • J.D. 
  • 4-7 years of legal experience in a law firm and/or in-house experience
  • Expertise in transactional work streams (M&A, finance and/or private funds) 
  • Strong experience with complex transactions and innovative structures
  • Strong communication skills, and be exceptionally organized and detail-oriented
  • Ability to multi-task and manage various projects, meet deadlines, excel under pressure, and work independently

About Yieldstreet

Yieldstreet is the leading private market investment platform. We believe that private market alternatives should be a fundamental part of your portfolio. That’s why we’re unlocking access to make it easier than ever to get started. We partner with top-tier investment managers to provide investors with a wide range of opportunities across real estate, venture capital, private equity, art, short term notes and more. All of our offerings are curated and vetted by our team to help investors diversify away from the stock market with confidence. 
 
Why Yieldstreet?

Join a team of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages who are on a mission to make alternative investments a fundamental part of the modern portfolio. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B. We get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites! We are a hybrid work company giving you the opportunity to connect with your peers in real time with the flexibility to work remotely a few days per week. 

What’s in it for you:

 

Competitive compensation packages including equity 

Health, dental & vision coverage with FSA/HSA options

Unlimited PTO 

401k Match 

Paid lunch once a week

Commuter benefit  

Life insurance

Sabbatical

Summer Fridays

Compensation:

  • HIRING SALARY RANGE: $200,000 + (Actual salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) Compensation package also includes generous, bonus, benefits and equity.

PLEASE NOTE - ALL CANDIDATE COMMUNICATIONS WILL COME VIA LINKEDIN OR THE YIELDSTREET.COM DOMAIN.  ALL CANDIDATES THAT ARE SELECTED FOR THE INTERVIEW PROCESS WILL HEAR FROM LIVE HUMAN BEINGS.  IF YOU HEAR FROM ANYONE WITH AN ALTERNATIVE DOMAIN (e.g. YieldstreetCareers.com) OR RECEIVE AN OFFER  IN ANY MANNER OTHER THAN VIA PHONE, KINDLY REACH OUT TO US IMMEDIATELY.

The Company
New York, NY
225 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Yieldstreet is changing the way wealth is created, providing access to asset based investments historically unavailable to most investors. We believe our technology platform creates a unique experience for investors at every level and provides valuable diversification and strength to most portfolios.

Why Work With Us

We're creating something that has never existed before to change the world for the better, and we're doing it with a fun and diverse group of thinkers that have joined us from all walks of life.

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