Associate General Counsel Investment Transactions

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 17 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The New York City Comptrollers Office works to promote the financial health integrity and effectiveness of New York City government in order to strengthen trust secure a thriving future for all New Yorkers and build a more just equitable and resilient city. Led by an independently elected citywide official the comptrollers office provides checks and balances needed to hold City government accountable for budgeting wisely investing responsibly operating efficiently acting fairly living up to its obligations and promises and paying attention to the long-term challenges we face together.

The Comptrollers Office of General Counsel leverages the expertise of its diverse team of attorneys to provide high quality legal advice counsel and support to the Comptroller and the Agencys various bureaus. OGC facilitates and advances the Offices strategic objectives in advising on the various legal and operational opportunities and risks while ensuring compliance with the Agencys Charter mandate as well as local state and federal laws.

The Office of General Counsel (OGC) is responsible for all legal matters relating to the activities of the Comptrollers Office. This includes transactions for the five New York City Retirement Systems (Systems) and their public market and private market investments; accounting practices and disclosures; procurement rules and City contracts; settlement of claims brought on behalf of and against the City; prevailing wages on City projects; records access; public policy; and proposed federal state and local legislation. OGC interacts with many city agencies including the New York City Law Department and works closely with all of the divisions within the Comptrollers Office including the Bureau of Asset Management (BAM) which is responsible for oversight of the approximately $210 billion investment portfolios of the Systems. The selected attorney will primarily work with BAM related to investments of the Systems including (i) private market commingled funds and separately managed accounts in private equity hedge funds real estate infrastructure and opportunistic fixed income and (ii) arrangements with external managers of publicly traded equity and debt. The attorney will also provide legal support to other divisions of the Comptrollers Office primarily on contract and procurement matters including the Agency Chief Contracting Officer (ACCO) and Bureau of Contract Administration (Contracts).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

- Negotiate draft and review a variety of documents with respect to private markets transactions including limited partnership agreements side letters and subscription documents;

- Negotiate draft and review a variety of documents with respect to (i) public markets transactions including investment management agreements (ii) requests for proposals and (iii) consultant agreements;

- Work closely with other Comptrollers Office staff members of OGC BAM Contracts and ACCO to identify and resolve legal contracting policy and procurement issues including development and execution of internal policies and procedures;

- Manage supervise and direct outside counsel who are retained for substantially all new private markets transactions;

- Review the Systems board and internal governance and investment guideline materials as relevant to transactional work;

- Provide legal counsel on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters as they relate to pensions transactions conflicts of interest and prohibited conduct and BAMs day-to-day operations; and

- Perform related assignments and special projects as may be required.

EXECUTIVE AGENCY COUNSEL - 95005

Qualifications :

Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible relevant satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys in an administrative managerial or executive capacity or performing highly complex and significant legal work.

Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

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Employment Type :

Full-time