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About the Role
Social Finance is seeking an experienced Senior Assistant General Counsel to join its five-person legal team. This role requires creativity and collaboration due to the innovative nature of the work, which often lacks legal precedent. The legal team acts as strategic partners to internal teams, covering fund structures, regulatory frameworks, government partnerships, and transactional work.
Responsibilities
- Advise deal teams from initial structuring to drafting and negotiation of final financing and outcome-contingent agreements.
- Oversee external counsel in discussions and negotiations with project stakeholders.
- Contribute to deal document negotiations.
- Serve as a thought leader to deal teams throughout the entire deal lifecycle, including on key contract terms and best practices for achieving impact via contracting.
- Collaborate with internal and external counsel to develop credit facility agreements, asset purchase agreements, and ancillary financial agreements.
- Draft and execute entity formation agreements for impact investment special purpose vehicles.
- Advise on investment fund development, structuring, and legal implementation.
- Oversee drafting and negotiation of fund documentation with key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with internal and external counsel to develop private placement memoranda and support finance structuring.
- Support capital raises and lead investor agreement drafting and negotiation.
- Conduct legal due diligence on prospective investments and develop/draft investment agreements.
- Advise, support, or oversee corporate governance and entity management for the nonprofit parent and its subsidiaries/affiliates.
- Support management of the organization’s RIA compliance program and build a culture of compliance.
- Contribute to a positive culture by maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain and improve compliance and governance processes, designing efficient, reliable, and audit-ready systems.
- Collaborate with other members of the Legal team on fund and investment work.
- Oversee other legal matters, with emphasis on risk management and compliance for Social Finance and its affiliates.
- Participate in and lead broad, non-legal organizational priorities and community activities.
Requirements
- J.D. and license to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction.
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
- Relevant experience working at a major law firm or equivalent in-house experience.
- Experience with fund structures and governance.
- Experience with corporate transactional work including capital markets, investment funds, project finance, securities, structured finance, private equity, or public finance law.
- Experience with investment adviser or regulatory compliance.
- Comfort quickly getting up to speed in unfamiliar areas of law.
- Excellent communication skills; ability to translate complex concepts to non-legal audiences.
- Ability to flag and quantify risks and communicate clearly about uncertainty.
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to build and maintain relationships.
- Commitment to excellence and accuracy.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.
- Constructively express contrary points of view and seek consensus.
- Demonstrated interest and knowledge of key issues in effective nonprofit management, social interventions, and/or impact investing.
- Comfort operating in gray areas and contributing creative, practical solutions.
- Capacity to work independently and in a solutions-oriented way.
- Sense of humor, integrity, and flexibility.
- Commitment to enhancing a team culture of inclusion, belonging, and equity.
- Must be permanently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
- Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including a booster shot, to be in-person at a Social Finance office or client location.
Skills
- Fund formation
- Fund management
- Transactional work
- Financial regulation
- Contract drafting
- Negotiation
- Credit facility agreements
- Asset purchase agreements
- Financial agreements
- Entity formation agreements
- Investment fund development
- Private placement memoranda
- Capital raises
- Investor agreements
- Legal due diligence
- Investment agreements
- Corporate governance
- Entity management
- RIA compliance
- Risk management
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving
Location
- Boston, MA
- San Francisco, CA
- Austin, TX
- Washington, D.C.
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid work model (in office a minimum of two days per week and on an ad-hoc basis as needed)
Experience Level
- Minimum of 8 years relevant experience
- Senior Assistant General Counsel level
- Assistant General Counsel level (depending on candidate experience)
Education Level
- J.D.
Salary/Compensations
- $165,000-195,000
- Annual increase of $5,000
- Eligible for firmwide annual bonus program (typically 5-10%)
Benefits
- Comprehensive health care coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Flexible spending accounts
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Wellness Program “AHealthyMe Rewards”
- Retirement savings plan with employer contribution
- Short-term, long-term, and life insurance policies
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone reimbursements
- Dedicated budgets for team building and employee recognition
- Annual budget for external professional development opportunities
- Mentorship and onboarding programs
- Collaborative and energizing workspaces
- Paid vacation
- Paid holidays (with 12/24-1/1 off every year)
- Paid parental leave
About the Company
- Social Finance is a national nonprofit and registered investment adviser.
- They work with public, private, and social sectors to create partnerships and investments that measurably improve lives.
- Since 2011, they have mobilized over $500 million in investments focused on workforce and economic mobility, health, and housing.
- Driven by the belief that social and economic systems should enable all people to thrive.
- Conviction that meaningful change occurs when governments and markets work together.
- Core values: people, performance, integrity, collaboration, and inclusion.
- Work spans four areas: Impact-first Investing, Workforce and Education Investments, Advisory & Public Sector Practice, and the Social Finance Institute.
- Impact-first Investment team designs, launches, and manages investments for impact capital deployment.
- Workforce and Education Investments team designs, launches, and manages financial solutions for workforce challenges.
- Advisory team partners with government and philanthropy leaders to implement data-driven programs.
- Social Finance Institute aims to build the field and change systems through research, communities of practice, and educational outreach.
Equal Opportunity
- Social Finance, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, creed, disability, marital status, citizenship, ancestry, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, military status, status as a protected veteran, genetic information or any other legally protected status.
- Social Finance is committed to providing an accessible and supportive work environment to ensure individuals are able to contribute at their best.
- We will discuss and provide reasonable accommodations to those in the recruiting process who need them.
- It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.