Legal Specialist

Scissero

3d • Remote

About The Position

As a Legal Specialist, you will work directly on live private equity, M&A, and financing transactions for leading global investment firms, asset managers, and corporates. You will review and negotiate NDAs and ancillary transaction documentation in accordance with client-approved playbooks, ensuring full alignment with sponsor-side legal and commercial positions. You will leverage our proprietary AI-enabled platform to assist with document review, deviation identification, and playbook application. The platform enhances speed, consistency, and accuracy, enabling you to deliver high-quality legal work at scale while maintaining full ownership and accountability for the final output. This role sits at the core of our legal delivery team, supporting fast-moving, high-value transactions where precision, responsiveness, and reliability are critical. You will work closely with colleagues across our global legal team to deliver seamless support across concurrent deals, collaborating to maintain exceptional standards of quality and consistency. You will also partner with our product and engineering teams, helping refine and improve the AI tools that underpin our delivery model.

Requirements

• Law degree (LLB or equivalent).
• 1-3 years of experience in transactional legal work, contract review, or similar high-volume legal environments.
• Experience reviewing NDAs and/or similar transactional agreements.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing consistently high-quality work.
• Takes initiative and proactively finds solutions to practical and legal challenges.
• Technical and commercial, applying legal expertise thoughtfully in practice and in supporting broader business objectives.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, diverse, and intellectually challenging environment, collaborating effectively with lawyers, technologists, and operational teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, coordinating seamlessly across global teams.
• Enthusiastic about new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on operational efficiency and automation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting private equity, M&A, capital markets, or financing transactions.
• Experience at legal tech firms, law firms, ALSPs, Big 4 legal teams, or in-house legal departments.
• Experience working with structured playbooks or standardised legal frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate NDAs and ancillary transaction documentation in accordance with client-approved playbooks.
• Ensure full alignment with sponsor-side legal and commercial positions.
• Leverage proprietary AI-enabled platform for document review, deviation identification, and playbook application.
• Deliver high-quality legal work at scale while maintaining full ownership and accountability.
• Support fast-moving, high-value transactions where precision, responsiveness, and reliability are critical.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the global legal team to deliver seamless support across concurrent deals.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to refine and improve AI tools.

Benefits

• Hybrid work, with the ability to request to work from other countries (upon request)
• Paid Sick Leave
• Annual Bonus: Discretionary and performance-based.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Annual leave + bank holidays.
• Confidential Support: Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering mental health support.
• Professional Development: 7 days per year of paid study leave annually for exams and structured learning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree