Senior Business Development Manager-Investment Funds

New York, NY

A leading global AM Law Firm is looking for a dynamic business development professional to help lead the continued growth of its Investment Funds practice and support other transactional practices and/or initiatives as needed. The Senior Business Development Manager for Investment Funds is a high-impact, partner-facing business development and marketing role based in New York with responsibilities that span the firm’s U.S. and UK practices.

The Senior BD Manager will work closely with firm’s investment funds partners across private equity, credit and hedge funds, as well as business development leadership and business professionals throughout the firm. The position requires intellectual curiosity, the ability to think critically and strategically about a range of topics and issues across the investment funds landscape, and exceptional attention to detail.

In this role, you will interact daily with globally recognized investment funds partners who are at the forefront of today’s most sophisticated fund formation transactions. Together with business development leadership and firmwide operational teams, you will help shape and execute strategies that align with the firm’s strategic vision for its global investment funds platform and accelerate practice growth across the U.S. and UK.

You will be exposed to the firm’s full capabilities as an active participant in our cross‑selling, business planning, and key client and industry group initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in the growth and strategic direction of a market‑leading investment funds practice on a global scale.

Together with dedicated junior team member support, and with guidance from the BD Associate Director, the Senior BD Manager will:

• Lead the execution of strategic investment funds priorities, including those specific to fund types, industries, geographies, client teams, and individual partners, as well as regularly track and report on progress.
• Coordinate business development efforts across the firm’s U.S. and UK investment funds practices to ensure alignment, optimize cross‑border opportunities, and present a unified go‑to‑market strategy.
• Work with business development leadership to execute individual lawyer, transactional department, and firm business development and marketing objectives.
• Establish and maintain meaningful working relationships with partners and other members of the investment funds practice group to build support for key business development initiatives.
• Optimize strategic cross‑selling opportunities in coordination with business development colleagues throughout the firm, leveraging the breadth of the firm’s transactional and advisory capabilities.
• Monitor, track, and report on partner client development activities, market trends, and competitive developments affecting the global investment funds market.
• Work closely with the group’s dedicated business intelligence team to monitor marketplace and competitive developments that impact existing and prospective clients.
• Collaborate with other team members to meet rolling fund formation league table submission deadlines and effectively leverage firm processes to more efficiently mine data and improve matter management and overall data collection.
• Work with the firm’s event professionals and other members of the business development department to execute details of events, sponsor ships, speaking engagements, and thought leadership initiatives relevant to the investment funds space.
• Prepare pitch materials, responses to RFPs, deal lists, brochures, and other client materials for the firm’s investment funds practices, including drafting original content, and collaborate on cross‑practice materials as needed.
• Maintain and update marketing content for the investment funds practice group on a regular basis, ensuring consistency across U.S. and UK platforms.
• Collaborate with junior members of the business development team to execute legal directory and league table submissions, biography updates, matter management, and other routine projects.
• Handle marketing and business development database updates, including practice…