Complex Transaction Lawyer

JR United Kingdom; Leicester; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative legal tech company is seeking two experienced lawyers to help develop AI-driven contract analysis tools. This role involves close collaboration with product teams to evaluate existing functionalities and shape future legal tech products, focusing on corporate and finance law. Ideal candidates will have robust experience in M&A and lending.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Project-based engagement

Qualifications

• 5-6 years PQE from a top-tier law firm or in-house team.
• Senior Associate experience in running deals.
• Background in corporate and finance law.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex contracts to identify interdependencies.
• Collaborate with product managers on legal intelligence features.
• Evaluate existing tools and contribute legal insights.

Skills

Corporate Law

Finance Law

Analytical Skills

Risk Assessment

Legal Research

Education

Qualified Lawyer (PQE 5-6 years)

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 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 insights on drafting and risk, 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 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, including lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers, operate across the US, Europe, UK, Asia, Hong Kong, and Australia.

ElevateFlex is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, supporting a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to our clients’ needs through a global community of talent and advanced search technology. We were recently 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.

At ElevateFlex, diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our success. We believe a diverse, inclusive work culture 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 drives innovation and is good business.

We are committed to hiring candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to join the ElevateFlex team—help us change the legal landscape and make a difference in the legal universe.