Complex Transaction Lawyer

JR United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal tech company is looking for two experienced lawyers to support the development of innovative contract analysis tools. This role involves analyzing complex contracts, providing legal insights, and collaborating with product teams to enhance AI-driven legal products, all within a flexible remote structure.

Benefits

Flexible hours and project-based work

Open to hourly billing

Qualifications

• 5–6 years PQE, ideally from top-tier law firm or in-house.
• Strong background in corporate and finance law (M&A, lending, credit facilities).
• Experience or comfort working with sample/test contracts for legal tech products.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex contracts to identify interdependencies.
• Collaborate with product managers and developers for legal intelligence features.
• Contribute to the evolution of AI-driven contract editing tools.

Skills

Corporate Law

Finance Law

Contract Analysis

Risk Assessment

Legal Research

Education

Qualified Lawyer with 5–6 years PQE

Job description

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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 immediately 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 insights 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 across the globe. 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 capability within Elevate. We define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry by matching exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our clients through a curated, global community of talent and advanced, technology-enabled search. We are proud to have been assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

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

Equitability and inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive work culture that attracts, retains, and celebrates the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and are simply good business.

As strong proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to join the ElevateFlex team—help us change the legal business landscape and make a significant impact in the legal universe.