Assistant General Counsel

About the Company

Skyview Equity is a Beverly Hills–based private equity firm with more than two decades of investment history in the lower middle market and a deliberate, high-conviction move underway toward institutional scale.

With a core focus on enterprise values of $25M–$250M, Skyview specializes in special situations, corporate carveouts, and value-oriented transactions across North America and Europe. Operating from Los Angeles, Miami, and London, the firm combines the agility of a founder-led platform with the discipline and rigor of an institutionally maturing organization. This is a rare moment to join as Skyview formalizes its first institutional fund raise and expands its legal infrastructure in step with its ambitions.

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About the Role

The Assistant General Counsel will serve as a core legal partner to the firm’s investment, operations, and leadership teams handling the full arc of transactional, fund, and general corporate legal work that underpins a scaling private equity platform.

This is not a seat at the end of the table. The Assistant General Counsel will be embedded in deal execution, fund formation, and strategic decision-making from day one, working directly with firm leadership in a high-trust, high-autonomy capacity.

Job Responsibilities

M&A Transaction Support

• Lead or co-lead legal workstreams across acquisitions, divestitures, carveouts, and special situation investments
• Manage outside counsel throughout transaction execution
• Draft and negotiate purchase agreements, LOIs, NDAs, and ancillary transaction documents

Fund Formation & Investor Matters

• Support the structuring and launch of SkyView’s inaugural institutional fund
• Assist with LP documentation, subscription agreements, fund governance, and regulatory filings

General Corporate & Governance

• Oversee entity management, board resolutions, portfolio company governance, intercompany agreements, and firm-level corporate housekeeping across domestic and international structures

Employment & HR Legal

• Advise on employment agreements, equity and incentive arrangements, separation matters, and broader HR-related legal issues across both the firm and portfolio companies

Litigation Oversight

• Manage outside litigation counsel and monitor active matters
• Assess legal exposure and provide strategic guidance to firm leadership on dispute-related decisions

Legal Operations

• Build scalable internal legal processes and operational infrastructure
• Manage outside counsel relationships and legal spend
• Help institutionalize the legal function as the firm continues to scale and formalize operations

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school required
• Active California Bar admission required; dual licensure in New York, Florida, or Delaware is a strong plus
• 5–6+ years of M&A transaction experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house with a private equity firm or financial sponsor
• Experience with fund formation, private funds, or investor-related legal matters is highly preferred
• Exposure to general corporate, employment, and/or commercial litigation matters within a transactional or in-house environment
• Strong commercial instincts with the ability to make pragmatic legal decisions that support transaction efficiency and business objectives
• Based in Los Angeles or open to relocation; ability to maintain an in-office presence at the firm’s Beverly Hills headquarters

Ideal Profile

The ideal candidate brings more than strong legal credentials — they possess a genuine curiosity for the business of private equity and a desire to operate as a strategic business partner. This individual is commercially minded, entrepreneurially driven, and excited to take true ownership within a growing investment platform.

Key Attributes

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach
• Strong commercial acumen and sound business judgment
• Deep fluency across M&A transactions and private equity deal environments
• Low ego, high output mentality with a willingness to roll up their sleeves
• Institutional mindset with the ability to help scale and formalize infrastructure
• Understanding of fund formation and investor-related legal considerations
• Builder mentality with excitement around helping shape a growing platform
• Executive presence and confidence interacting with leadership, investors, and counterparties
• Investor empathy with an appreciation for balancing legal risk and business objectives
• Cross-functional agility with the ability to collaborate effectively across legal, finance, operations, HR, and portfolio company leadership

Why Skyview Equity

Skyview Equity offers something genuinely rare: the credibility and deal track record of a 20+ year private investment firm, combined with the momentum and white space of a platform in the early stages of institutional transformation.

The Assistant General Counsel joining today will have an outsized role in shaping how the firm’s legal function is built from the ground up, with the full support of leadership and the strategic context of a fund raise that will define the firm’s next decade. xrczosw This is a career-defining opportunity for a highly capable attorney ready to step out of a large institutional environment and into something with real agency, real stakes, and real upside.