Complex Transaction Lawyer

JR United Kingdom; Manchester; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative legal tech company is looking for experienced lawyers to enhance AI-driven contract analysis tools. The role requires analyzing contract interdependencies and collaborating with development teams to evolve legal technology products. Ideal candidates will have strong corporate law backgrounds and be excited about shaping the future of legal tech. The position allows for flexible remote work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years PQE, ideally from a top-tier law firm or in-house legal team.
• Experience in corporate and finance law (M&A, lending, credit facilities).
• Comfortable with ambiguity in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex contracts to identify interdependencies.
• Collaborate with product teams to refine features.
• Provide insights into how changes affect document intent.

Skills

Corporate Law

Finance Law

Contract Analysis

Legal Technology

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 real-world 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 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 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 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.

ElevateFlex values diversity, equity, and inclusion. As The Law Company, we are committed to hiring candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply and become part of the ElevateFlex team—help us change the legal landscape and make a meaningful impact in the legal universe.