Compliance & Transaction Manager

About the role

The Los Angeles office of Alston & Bird LLP is seeking a senior practice support professional to join its Private Equity Sponsor Finance team. This role supports a Los Angeles-based team of partners, counsel, and associates as a core, client-facing member of the deal team on sophisticated financing transactions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day practice support lead for a sponsor finance team handling sophisticated private equity transactions.
• Act as a client-facing point of contact, communicating directly with clients, opposing counsel, lenders, agents, and internal stakeholders with professionalism and responsiveness.
• Manage end-to-end transaction execution, including:
• New matter intake, including preparation of engagement letters and coordination of conflict checks.
• Preparation and maintenance of closing checklists, tracking deliverables and conditions precedent, version control and keeping deal teams organized and on schedule throughout the transaction lifecycle and across multiple concurrent transactions.
• Cooking KYC, diligence, onboarding, and ancillary closing documentation, including corporate governing documents.
• Conduct and review UCC, lien, judgment, tax lien, and litigation searches; prepare search result summaries and track filing deadlines; prepare and file UCC financing statements and amendments thereto.
• Preparation and collection of signature pages, document execution tracking, and final document distribution.
• Affirmative administrative tasks including updating and keeping organized workspace documents, completing internal deal reporting, and development of knowledge management materials.
• Managing certain deal workflows, including post-closing credit agreement obligation [covenant] reminders, [status keeping]/[tracking] and completion.
• Support attorneys as a true member of the deal team, anticipating needs, driving follow-up, and contributing to efficient execution under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years with significant experience supporting corporate finance, leveraged finance, sponsor finance, private equity, or similar transactional practices in a major law firm or comparable environment.
• Demonstrated experience with closing process management, including document management systems (preferably iManage), signature pages, closing checklists, final document distribution, and transaction coordination (cross-border experience is preferred).
• Experience with KYC, diligence coordination, and client onboarding in financing transactions.
• Knowledge of and experience with lien search mechanics and Article 9 of the UCC.
• Experience working directly with sophisticated clients and other outside counsel.
• Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple high-pressure matters at once.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the polish to work directly with sophisticated clients and senior stakeholders.
• A proactive, team-oriented approach and the ability to operate with ownership, discretion, and professionalism.
• Comfort with using AI tools efficiently and responsibly to streamline administrative workflows, support document and process management, and enhance overall execution efficiency.