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About the Role
State Street is one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors. Investment Services is a core State Street business, delivering servicing, operational, and technology solutions to asset managers, asset owners, insurance companies, and other institutional clients globally.
Joining State Street means working at the center of a sophisticated and highly regulated financial services ecosystem. Our Legal team partners with business and control leaders to address complex legal and regulatory matters, support strategic growth, strengthen client relationships, and help the business navigate an evolving investment services landscape.
We are seeking an experienced attorney to join the Investment Services Legal team supporting the Americas business. This role provides the opportunity to advise business leaders and client-facing teams on significant legal, regulatory, commercial, operational, and reputational matters across a broad range of institutional client relationships and investment servicing activities.
The successful candidate will bring strong legal judgment, commercial awareness, and the ability to translate complex legal and regulatory considerations into practical advice that supports the business while appropriately managing risk.
What You Will Be Responsible For
As Legal Counsel, Investment Services, Vice President, you will:
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor to Investment Services business leaders, client-facing teams, and control functions on legal, regulatory, commercial, operational, and governance matters.
- Advise on matters involving investment funds, investment managers, institutional asset owners, and other sophisticated financial-services clients.
- Draft, review, interpret, and negotiate complex client and commercial agreements.
- Provide practical legal guidance on significant client relationships, negotiations, new products, service enhancements, and changes to business or operating models.
- Advise on applicable securities and investment-management laws and regulations, including relevant SEC rules and regulatory developments.
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, Audit, Operations, Product, Technology, and other functions on regulatory change, governance, remediation, and strategic initiatives.
- Identify and evaluate legal, regulatory, operational, financial, and reputational risks and provide clear, commercially informed recommendations.
- Support interactions with clients, regulators, fund boards, outside counsel, and other external stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Monitor relevant legal and regulatory developments and advise business partners on potential client, product, and operational impacts.
- Contribute to the continued development of legal processes, standards, knowledge management, and risk-management practices.
What We Value
We are looking for a commercially minded attorney who can operate effectively at the intersection of law, regulation, business strategy, and client service.
The successful candidate will bring:
- Sound judgment and a practical, solutions-oriented approach to legal advice.
- The ability to identify the issues that matter most and provide clear, actionable guidance.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- The confidence and credibility to advise and appropriately challenge business partners.
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to understand sophisticated products, clients, and operating models.
- A collaborative approach to working across Legal, business, and control functions.
- A commitment to integrity, accountability, and disciplined risk management.
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree and admission to practice law.
- 6+ experience practicing law within a law firm, financial institution, investment manager, asset manager, or other relevant financial-services environment.
- Strong knowledge of laws and regulations relevant to the investment-management and/or financial-services industry.
- Demonstrated ability to advise business partners on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, or client matters.
- Strong legal drafting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into practical, business-oriented advice.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build credibility and effectively advise business leaders, clients, control functions, and other stakeholders.
- Experience advising registered investment funds, including mutual funds, ETFs, money market funds, or other registered investment products, preferred.
- Experience with private and alternative investment funds, including private markets, hedge funds, real estate funds, or similar structures, preferred.
- Experience advising institutional asset owners, insurance companies, or other sophisticated institutional investors, preferred.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, particularly within investment management or financial services, preferred.
- Familiarity with custody and asset servicing, including custody, fund administration, fund accounting, transfer agency, trustee services, securities lending, collateral, or related services, a plus.
- Prior law firm experience advising investment-management, institutional-investor, or financial-services clients a plus.
Why This Role Is Distinctive
This role combines the reach of a global financial institution with the opportunity to provide high-level legal advice across a sophisticated Investment Services business. You will partner with business and control leaders on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, and client matters, providing practical guidance that supports business objectives while appropriately managing risk.
For an experienced attorney seeking broader business exposure, sophisticated client relationships, and the opportunity to advise a core State Street business, this role offers a compelling next step.
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Legal Counsel, Investment Services, Vice President
About the Role
State Street is one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors. Investment Services is a core State Street business, delivering servicing, operational, and technology solutions to asset managers, asset owners, insurance companies, and other institutional clients globally.
Joining State Street means working at the center of a sophisticated and highly regulated financial services ecosystem. Our Legal team partners with business and control leaders to address complex legal and regulatory matters, support strategic growth, strengthen client relationships, and help the business navigate an evolving investment services landscape.
We are seeking an experienced attorney to join the Investment Services Legal team supporting the Americas business. This role provides the opportunity to advise business leaders and client-facing teams on significant legal, regulatory, commercial, operational, and reputational matters across a broad range of institutional client relationships and investment servicing activities.
The successful candidate will bring strong legal judgment, commercial awareness, and the ability to translate complex legal and regulatory considerations into practical advice that supports the business while appropriately managing risk.
What You Will Be Responsible For
As Legal Counsel, Investment Services, Vice President, you will:
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor to Investment Services business leaders, client-facing teams, and control functions on legal, regulatory, commercial, operational, and governance matters.
- Advise on matters involving investment funds, investment managers, institutional asset owners, and other sophisticated financial-services clients.
- Draft, review, interpret, and negotiate complex client and commercial agreements.
- Provide practical legal guidance on significant client relationships, negotiations, new products, service enhancements, and changes to business or operating models.
- Advise on applicable securities and investment-management laws and regulations, including relevant SEC rules and regulatory developments.
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, Audit, Operations, Product, Technology, and other functions on regulatory change, governance, remediation, and strategic initiatives.
- Identify and evaluate legal, regulatory, operational, financial, and reputational risks and provide clear, commercially informed recommendations.
- Support interactions with clients, regulators, fund boards, outside counsel, and other external stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Monitor relevant legal and regulatory developments and advise business partners on potential client, product, and operational impacts.
- Contribute to the continued development of legal processes, standards, knowledge management, and risk-management practices.
What We Value
We are looking for a commercially minded attorney who can operate effectively at the intersection of law, regulation, business strategy, and client service.
The successful candidate will bring:
- Sound judgment and a practical, solutions-oriented approach to legal advice.
- The ability to identify the issues that matter most and provide clear, actionable guidance.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- The confidence and credibility to advise and appropriately challenge business partners.
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to understand sophisticated products, clients, and operating models.
- A collaborative approach to working across Legal, business, and control functions.
- A commitment to integrity, accountability, and disciplined risk management.
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree and admission to practice law.
- 6+ experience practicing law within a law firm, financial institution, investment manager, asset manager, or other relevant financial-services environment.
- Strong knowledge of laws and regulations relevant to the investment-management and/or financial-services industry.
- Demonstrated ability to advise business partners on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, or client matters.
- Strong legal drafting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into practical, business-oriented advice.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build credibility and effectively advise business leaders, clients, control functions, and other stakeholders.
- Experience advising registered investment funds, including mutual funds, ETFs, money market funds, or other registered investment products, preferred.
- Experience with private and alternative investment funds, including private markets, hedge funds, real estate funds, or similar structures, preferred.
- Experience advising institutional asset owners, insurance companies, or other sophisticated institutional investors, preferred.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, particularly within investment management or financial services, preferred.
- Familiarity with custody and asset servicing, including custody, fund administration, fund accounting, transfer agency, trustee services, securities lending, collateral, or related services, a plus.
- Prior law firm experience advising investment-management, institutional-investor, or financial-services clients a plus.
Why This Role Is Distinctive
This role combines the reach of a global financial institution with the opportunity to provide high-level legal advice across a sophisticated Investment Services business. You will partner with business and control leaders on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, and client matters, providing practical guidance that supports business objectives while appropriately managing risk.
For an experienced attorney seeking broader business exposure, sophisticated client relationships, and the opportunity to advise a core State Street business, this role offers a compelling next step.
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Vice President of Legal
Verify your JD qualifies as specialty occupation
A Juris Doctor is the standard credential for VP of Legal roles, and USCIS treats it as a qualifying specialty degree. Confirm your employer's job description explicitly ties the position to legal expertise, not general management, before filing.
Check prevailing wage tiers before accepting offers
VP of Legal roles typically fall at DOL wage Level III or IV. Run the OFLC Wage Search using SOC code 23-1011 for your target city before negotiating, so your offered salary meets the LCA certification requirement from day one.
Find sponsors with active LCA filing history on Migrate Mate
Target employers who have already certified LCAs for legal leadership roles. Migrate Mate surfaces verified H-1B visa sponsorship history by role and location, so you can prioritize outreach to companies with a proven track record of sponsoring senior legal positions.
Prepare a degree equivalency analysis early
If your law degree was earned outside the U.S., obtain a credential evaluation before your employer files. Some foreign legal qualifications require a three-for-one work experience analysis to satisfy USCIS specialty occupation standards for VP-level roles.
Confirm each worksite has its own certified LCA
If you'll work across multiple offices or client sites, your employer must file a separate certified LCA for each location. Confirm this during offer negotiation, since an uncovered worksite can trigger compliance liability for the employer and jeopardize your status.
Account for cap-subject timing in your start-date planning
If you're not already in H-1B status, your employer must navigate the annual cap process. The selection rules have changed recently, so plan your job search timeline with at least six to twelve months of lead time before your intended start date.
H-1B Visa Vice President of Legal: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Vice President of Legal role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. A VP of Legal position typically qualifies as a specialty occupation because it requires a Juris Doctor or equivalent advanced legal degree as a standard entry requirement. USCIS looks at whether the role normally requires a specific bachelor's-level or higher credential in a directly related field, and legal leadership positions consistently meet that standard.
How do I find employers who sponsor H-1B visas for VP of Legal roles?
Search on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history filtered to legal and compliance leadership roles. Focusing on companies that have already sponsored similar positions reduces the risk of pursuing employers who are unfamiliar with or unwilling to manage the sponsorship process for senior legal hires.
What documents should I prepare before an employer files my H-1B petition?
Gather your law degree transcripts and diploma, bar admission certificates for any jurisdiction where you're licensed, a credential evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S., and a detailed resume documenting your legal career progression. Your employer's attorney will also need these to support the specialty occupation argument in the I-129 petition.
Can I switch employers while on H-1B as a Vice President of Legal?
Yes, through H-1B portability. If your new employer files an I-129 transfer petition before your current status expires, you can begin working for the new company as soon as the petition is received by USCIS. The new employer must file a fresh LCA certified for the specific worksite and wage level of the new role.
How long does H-1B status last for a VP of Legal position?
Initial H-1B status is granted for up to three years and can be extended to a maximum of six years. Extensions beyond six years are possible only if you have an approved immigrant visa petition or a pending labor certification that has been on file for at least 365 days, allowing you to remain in status while pursuing permanent residence.