Candidate Description
The Philadelphia office of Greenberg Traurig is seeking a junior attorney to join its Investment Management and Financial Services Practice. The group does highly sophisticated and diversified work for clients that include banks, financial institutions, transfer agents, funds, advisers, and institutional investors. Preferred candidates should have familiarity with private and registered funds formation and alternative structures, and a working knowledge of the federal securities laws, in particular those applicable to investment companies and investment advisers.
Candidates should possess a strong academic background, client management skills and superior drafting skills. Candidates must have the skills to retain and desire to grow existing clients and relationships, including the ability to multi-task and manage their time to meet deadlines and complete projects.
- Admission to practice law in Pennsylvania with excellent academic credentials;
- 2+ years of experience at a law firm, financial institution, or regulator with demonstrated financial services experience;
- Superior writing skills, strong work ethic, great communication skills, comfort with ambiguity and outstanding interpersonal skills;
- Experience drafting and negotiating services agreements; and
- Willingness and desire to learn.
About the IBIS Practice Group
As one of very few practices that focus primarily on asset servicing providers, Greenberg Traurig’s Institutional Banking and Investment Services (IBIS) Practice Group is uniquely designed to serve the expansive needs of institutional banks and investment servicing providers both in the United States and globally. The IBIS practice group provides advice on all aspects of investment matters, including investment vehicle formation, management, planning, transactional, tax, regulatory, and compliance matters and pairs this expertise to uniquely focus on asset servicing and operational support matters such as administration, accounting, custody, corporate and escrow trust services, structured finance trust services, leveraged finance support, government contract bidding and savings plans, transfer agency, outsourcing and related matters. We support our clients through the entirety of the investment lifecycle.
Greenberg Traurig's Investment Management Group provides advice on all aspects of investment regulation and compliance. Our clients include registered investment companies and their independent boards, private funds, investment advisers, broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, futures commission merchants, major swap participants, structured product sponsors, and financial institutions and other service providers for the investment management industry.
See Investment Management and Institutional Banking & Investment Services (IBIS) and for more information.
GT is an EEO employer with an inclusive workplace committed to merit-based consideration and review without regard to an individual’s race, sex, or other protected characteristics and to the principles of non-discrimination on any protected basis.
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 45 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 250. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: www.gtlaw.com.
