Legal, Asset Management Private Credit Attorney, Vice President, New York / Dallas

LEGAL We work at the intersection of finance and law, providing counsel and advice that support activities across the firm. We handle litigation and arbitration, perform research and due diligence, aid in financing and legal filings, deal with contracts and intellectual property rights that show our commitment to clients, shareholders, and regulators. Whether you’re an experienced attorney or a quick learner with a strong interest in financial law coupled with critical thinking skills, our dynamic group might be right for you.
ROLE OVERVIEW Goldman Sachs is one of the world’s leading investors in alternative investments. With over 30 years of experience, we invest in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, ESG, and absolute-return strategies. Our clients access these solutions through our direct proprietary strategies, customized strategic partnerships, and open-architecture programs. Our alternative investment teams represent over 1,000 professionals, across 31 offices around the world. We leverage the depth and breadth of global relationships across Goldman Sachs to identify investment opportunities, drawing on our firm-wide capital market insights, industry research, and risk management platforms. We extend these capabilities to the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, family offices and individuals, for which we invest or advise on over $300 billion of alternative investments.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit

Established in 1996, the Private Credit business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s largest private credit investors with over $100 billion in assets across direct lending, mezzanine debt, hybrid capital and asset-based lending strategies. Deep industry and product knowledge, extensive relationships and global footprint position Private Credit to deliver scaled outcomes with speed and certainty, supporting companies from the lower middle market to large cap in size.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Asset Management Legal is looking for an experienced lending attorney to provide transactional legal coverage for Private Credit, with a focus on large cap and middle-market lending. In addition to senior secured loans, the work may also involve mezzanine/junior debt and preferred equity financing transactions as well as debt restructurings and other matters. 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 Private Credit professionals on the structuring, negotiation and execution of financing 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
• Coordinating with other control-side areas

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-7 years’ post qualification experience required in a leading law firm or financial institution
• Strong commercial lending experience is required, with experience in private credit/direct lending preferred
• Experience with private funds and BDCs as well as with bankruptcies/restructurings 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

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