Complex Transaction Lawyer

JR United Kingdom; Telford; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal tech company is hiring experienced lawyers to enhance contract analysis tools. This role involves analyzing complex contracts, providing legal insights to guide AI features, and supports the evolution of a cutting-edge, AI-driven platform. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in corporate and finance law.

Qualifications

• Five to six years of post-qualification experience ideally from a top-tier law firm.
• Experience with complex contract analysis.
• Ability to assess structural impacts in legal documents.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex contracts to identify interdependencies between clauses.
• Collaborate with product teams to guide features that enhance contract clarity.
• Provide insights on drafting and risk evaluation for AI tools.

Skills

Corporate and finance law

Analytical skills

Communication

Intellectual curiosity

Proactivity

Education

PQE (5-6 years)

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 ~100 employees strong, 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 globally. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, Asia, Hong Kong, and Australia.

ElevateFlex, our flexible resourcing capability, supports a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our clients through a curated global community of talent and advanced search technology. We are proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision:

To create a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At ElevateFlex, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to our success. We are committed to hiring candidates from all backgrounds and fostering an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their whole selves to work. Diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and are essential to our business.

Join the ElevateFlex team to help change the legal landscape and make a meaningful impact in the legal universe.