Complex Transaction Lawyer

JR United Kingdom; Basingstoke; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative legal tech company seeks two experienced lawyers to enhance contract analysis tools. This role involves collaborating with product teams, analyzing complex agreements, and providing legal insights to shape AI-driven technology. The ideal candidate has a strong background in corporate and finance law, eager to work in a flexible and collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years PQE from a top-tier law firm or in-house team.
• Experience running deals with partners.
• Intellectual curiosity and excitement about legal tech.
• Familiarity with transactional work and implications.

Responsibilities

• Analyze contracts to map interdependencies between clauses.
• Collaborate with product teams to refine legal features.
• Evaluate existing tools for accuracy and usability.
• Support design of innovative contract editing tools.

Skills

Corporate Law

Finance Law

M&A

Proactive

Collaborative

Job description

Our customer, an innovative legal tech company, is seeking two experienced lawyers to support the development of cutting-edge contract analysis tools. The company, currently with approximately 100 employees, is building AI-driven products designed to help legal teams edit complex contracts and understand the downstream impact of those changes. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how legal technology supports transactional lawyers.

About the Role:

You will work closely with the product team to guide legal intelligence features—particularly those that identify interdependencies and structural impacts within long-form contracts. You’ll provide real-world insights on drafting and risk, help evaluate existing tools, and contribute directly to the evolution of an AI-first contract editing platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze complex contracts (e.g., credit agreements, SPAs) to identify and map interdependencies between clauses, definitions, schedules, etc.
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to refine cause-effect features (e.g., “change clause 27.3, then check Schedule 4 and the definition of ‘N’”).
• Contribute legal insight into how changes to clauses affect the structure and intent of full documents.
• Evaluate outputs from existing product features and provide feedback on accuracy and completeness.
• Support the design of innovative tools for contract editing and risk flagging.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 5–6 years PQE, ideally from a top-tier law firm or in-house legal team.
• Senior Associate level – experience running deals with partners.
• Strong background in corporate and finance law (M&A, lending, credit facilities, etc.).
• Comfortable understanding and explaining the knock-on effects of structural changes (e.g., removing a revolving facility or a letter of credit).
• Intellectually curious, proactive, and excited about working with emerging legal tech.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and iterative work in a highly collaborative, non-hierarchical environment.
• Experience or comfort working with sample/test contracts to help shape legal tech products.
• Bonus: Familiarity with IP is useful but the core focus is on general transactional experience.

Work Structure & Flexibility:

• Remote and project-based (flexible hours and structure).
• Open to hourly billing or other engagement models depending on mutual fit.
• Initial scope will focus on evaluating existing product functionality with potential for ongoing collaboration.

About Elevate:

Elevate provides consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms worldwide. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our team of over 1,600 legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, Asia, Hong Kong, and Australia.

ElevateFlex is the flexible resourcing arm of Elevate, defining and supporting a new flexible career path within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to our clients' needs through a curated global community of talent and advanced search technology. We are proud to be ranked in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision: a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes together.

At ElevateFlex, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to hiring candidates from all backgrounds and fostering an inclusive work culture. We invite you to join the ElevateFlex team—help us transform the legal landscape and make a meaningful impact in the legal universe.