Associate Corporate Counsel
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A growing organization seeks an Associate Corporate Counsel to support corporate, commercial, and transactional legal matters, particularly debt financing, lending transactions, and corporate governance. The ideal candidate has experience negotiating complex financing arrangements and strong corporate and commercial law fundamentals, and can balance legal risk with business objectives.
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Description
A growing organization is seeking an Associate Corporate Counsel to support a broad range of corporate, commercial, and transactional legal matters, with a focus on debt financing, lending transactions, and corporate governance.
The ideal candidate will have experience negotiating complex financing arrangements, strong corporate and commercial law fundamentals, and the ability to balance legal risk with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
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Draft, review, and negotiate financing documents, including credit agreements, security agreements, guarantees, and related transaction documents.
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Support lending transactions, closing requirements, ongoing reporting obligations, and secured financing matters.
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Advise on corporate governance, entity management, board documentation, and corporate records.
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Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including vendor contracts, NDAs, technology agreements, and strategic partnerships.
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Provide day-to-day legal guidance to cross-functional business teams.
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Support regulatory and compliance matters involving financial services, lending, and payment processing.
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Monitor applicable legal and regulatory developments.
Requirements
Qualifications
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J.D. from an accredited law school.
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Active U.S. bar membership; New York admission preferred.
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Approximately 4–7 years of relevant legal experience, ideally in-house or within a corporate, banking, or financial services practice.
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Demonstrated experience with debt financing and lending transactions, representing either lenders or borrowers.
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Knowledge of corporate governance, commercial contracts, secured transactions, and UCC Article 9.
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Familiarity with banking, payments, ACH, AML/KYC, or financial services regulations is a plus.
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Strong communication, negotiation, analytical, and business judgment skills.
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Practical, solutions-oriented approach with the ability to communicate complex legal issues to non-legal stakeholders.
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How this job compares
Set against the 669 open Corporate Counsel jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$169–229K/yr56 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 63 open Corporate Counsel jobs in New York and 669 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Corporate Counsel postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (629 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a doctorate or professional degree; 559 of the 669 open Corporate Counsel jobs (84%) ask for a doctorate or professional degree.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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