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Legal, AWM Private Equity Attorney, Vice President, New York City/Dallas
BUSINESS UNIT AND ROLE OVERVIEW:
Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally, with over $625 billion in assets and more than 30 years of experience. The business invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, sustainability, and hedge funds. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customized partnerships, and open-architecture programs. The business is driven by a focus on partnership and shared success with its clients, seeking to deliver long-term investment performance drawing on its global network and deep expertise across industries and markets. The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals. Goldman Sachs has approximately $3.6 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of December 31, 2025.
Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) Legal is looking for an experienced private equity/M&A attorney to join our team of lawyers covering the Alternatives business in Goldman Sachs. The attorney will provide transactional legal coverage for AWM desks making private equity investments, including Infrastructure and Private Equity, as well as for Firmwide Strategy in making GS strategic investments. The attorney will also be closely involved in managing legal and regulatory issues involving portfolio companies and investment exits. The position offers the opportunity to partner with the business and other control-side areas and oversee legal aspects throughout the transaction life cycle, including the analysis of legal and reputational issues as part of investment committee and portfolio management processes.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Advising AWM professionals on the structuring and execution of private equity transactions, taking into account legal, regulatory, reputational and compliance issues
- Managing outside counsel and overseeing legal due diligence
- Handling transaction-related fund and fiduciary issues as well as regulatory and structuring issues for investments on the firm’s balance sheet
- Liaising with portfolio companies regarding legal, regulatory, compliance and reputational issues
- Coordinating with other control-side areas
SKILLS / EXPERIENCE
- 5-8 years’ post qualification experience required in a leading law firm or financial institution
- Strong transactional experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity is required
- Experience with private equity funds is a plus
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills; ability to clearly articulate ideas and develop stakeholder relationships
- Team-oriented with ability to respond and be flexible to client demands while adhering to firm policies and group practices
- Ability to engage proactively as an advisor to the business and collaboratively work with other control areas
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $170000-$270000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview CORPORATE TITLE Vice President OFFICE LOCATION(S) New York, Dallas JOB FUNCTION Business Unit Legal DIVISION Legal SALARY RANGE USD 170,000 - 270,000
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