Overview
Legal Counsel Role-Private Equity Fund Jobs in San Francisco, CA at Hudson Gate Partners
Title: Legal Counsel Role-Private Equity Fund
Company: Hudson Gate Partners
Location: San Francisco, CA
Senior Legal Role-Private Equity / Venture Capital – Technology Firm
Roles includes – managing core legal processes, owning strategic contracts, and partnering across our investment and operation team.
The Position
· Manage day-to-day legal matters at the management company, including NDAs, vendor agreements, consulting agreements, and employment contracts
· Own and refine our contract intake and tracking processes, surfacing insights from negotiated terms to inform strategy
· Audit and optimize our Ironclad CLM implementation; improve workflows, data hygiene, and reporting to power our Legal Center of Excellence
· Build and maintain a dashboard of internal legal templates and precedents
· Onboard team members to best practices around NDAs, vendor contracting, attorney-client privilege, and internal legal workflows
· Assist the Associate General Counsel in developing internal trainings on employment practices, intellectual property, data privacy, and other core legal topics
· Create scalable legal resources including FAQs, playbooks, and training modules for the GP and our portfolio companies
· Support ongoing compliance with data privacy regulations (e.g., CCPA, GDPR) across the fund and its portfolio
· Help track and analyze legal and regulatory developments impacting our companies
· Partner with the AGC to support M&A transactions, including helping with post-close execution.
Requirements
· JD from an accredited law school; active bar membership in good standing
· 3-5 years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal department; exposure to private equity and/or SaaS exposure preferred
· Strong drafting, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills, with a solid foundation in commercial contracts
