Mid -Level/Senior ECVC Associate

Advocates Legal Recruiting • San Francisco, CA

21d • $310,000 - $420,000

About The Position

Our AmLaw 50 client is growing its Emerging Companies & Venture Capital group and is adding a midlevel to senior associate across four key offices: San Francisco, Silicon Vally, Los Angeles, and New York. The group sits at the intersection of venture capital, frontier technologies, and strategic M&A, backed by a firm repeatedly recognized in Chambers for venture capital, technology, and fintech work and consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for over two decades.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of ECVC, startup, or venture -side experience from a peer AmLaw platform or highly regarded boutique.
• Significant experience running or heavily staffing venture financings and other private company transactions, including drafting and negotiating core deal documents.
• Familiarity with or interest in regulatory and strategic issues around AI, Web3, blockchain, crypto, metaverse, and other next -generation technologies.
• Strong writing, judgment, and client -handling skills, with the ability to manage concurrent workstreams for sophisticated founders, boards, and investors.
• Bar admission: California for SF / Palo Alto / LA and New York for NYC, or a clear path to admission.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted counsel to startups and emerging growth companies from incorporation through exit, as well as to venture and growth equity funds that invest in them.
• Lead and support venture financings, SAFE and convertible rounds, preferred equity deals, and secondary transactions.
• Advise founders and boards on corporate governance, cap table issues, and strategic transactions, including acquisitions and portfolio company exits.
• Work on matters that touch AI, Web3, blockchain, crypto, metaverse, and other frontier technologies, often with cross -practice input from the firm’s nationally ranked fintech, technology, and digital assets teams.
• Operate as part of an integrated ECVC platform with partners and associates across the West Coast and New York handling thousands of financings from pre -seed through growth stages.

Benefits

• Market AmLaw scale, with a posted base salary range of $310,000 to $420,000 annually, plus discretionary bonus, 401(k), robust health benefits, and paid leave programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed