
Avantia is leading the way in legal services innovation. We combine tailor made services, expert lawyers who understand your business and custom-built AI technology. Our team of lawyers, project managers and tech experts work with you to support your business, and deliver routine legal and compliance work fast and cost-efficiently.

Avantia is leading the way in legal services innovation. We combine tailor made services, expert lawyers who understand your business and custom-built AI technology. Our team of lawyers, project managers and tech experts work with you to support your business, and deliver routine legal and compliance work fast and cost-efficiently.
Founded: 2019
Core offering: AI-enabled legal, compliance and fund solutions for asset managers
Proprietary tech: Ava — in‑house AI agent augmenting lawyer review
Offices: London and New York
Employee count: 122
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High-volume legal and compliance workflows for asset managers (contracting, KYC/onboarding, LP transfers, regulatory compliance).
2019
Legal Services
“Received a venture debt facility from HSBC Innovation Banking to support investment in its Ava AI platform”
**Job Title:**Transaction KYC Analyst
**Department:**Compliance – Transactions Division
**Location:**FullyRemote within Canada or USA; Greater Toronto Area Preferred
**Reports to:**Michael Xiao, Legal Director (Compliance Department)
**Employment Type:**Full Time, Permanent.
About the Company
Avantia is an AI-first legal and compliance services provider to many of the world’s leading asset managers private equity firms and institutional investors. We combine specialist sector expertise with AI-powered workflows to help clients move faster, manage risk, and scale globally.
Headquartered in London with hubs in New York, Denver and Toronto, we’re building a new model for legal and compliance delivery - one that blends the precision of expert lawyers with the efficiency and insight of technology. Our proprietary AI platform, AVA, underpins every service we deliver. It streamlines manual processes, surfaces institutional knowledge, and empowers our attorneys to negotiate from a position of strength, respond faster, and deliver consistently better outcomes.
But technology alone isn’t what sets us apart - it’s how we use it. Avantia is built for professionals who see change as an opportunity. We’re a team of lawyers, technologists and specialists who want to shape the future of our industry, not just adapt to it.
We value clarity over caution, innovation over inertia, and collaboration over hierarchy. We’re pragmatic, ambitious, and united by a shared belief that legal and compliance services can be delivered with greater impact and less friction.
Position Overview
As a Transaction KYC Analyst, you will be working alongside asset managers’ legal, compliance and investment teams to help bring complex private equity deals to completion. You will responsible reconducting Know Your Customer (KYC) analysis and reviews on behalf of our clients, with a particular focus on complex debt, equity, real estate and infrastructure transactions across different jurisdictions and sectors. You will support our clients' investment risk management processes and help ensure that their deals comply with applicable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations, internal policies, and jurisdictional requirements.
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