Scissero

Attorney

• Review, draft, and negotiate NDAs and ancillary transaction documents across private equity, M&A, and financing transactions.
• Undertake a planned 12-month secondment with a leading global alternative asset manager following an initial onboarding period within Scissero’s Managed Services team.
• Apply client-specific playbooks and structured frameworks to ensure alignment with agreed client positions.
• Identify deviations from playbook positions and implement appropriate fallback language in line with client guidance.
• Manage your own workflow and document queue, prioritising effectively to meet defined turnaround times and service levels.
• Support live deal execution across multiple concurrent transactions in fast-paced environments.
• Work directly with internal stakeholders to maintain operational efficiency and service excellence.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal processes and delivery workflows.
• Use proprietary AI tools to accelerate document review and enhance accuracy and consistency.
• Maintain full oversight of legal output, ensuring all deliverables meet client and internal quality standards.
• Provide structured feedback to product and engineering teams to support ongoing platform improvement.
• Work within an AI-native legal delivery model that combines legal expertise with technology.

Legal Specialist

• Work directly on live private equity, M&A, and financing transactions for leading global investment firms.
• Review and negotiate NDAs and ancillary transaction documentation in accordance with client-approved playbooks.
• Leverage proprietary AI-enabled platform to assist with document review, deviation identification, and playbook application.
• Support fast-moving, high-value transactions where precision, responsiveness, and reliability are critical.
• Collaborate with global legal team to deliver seamless support across concurrent deals.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to refine and improve the AI tools.

• Lead day-to-day delivery for your allocated client group, ensuring high-quality legal services, strong client experience, deadline compliance, and consistent execution.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and oversee complex NDAs and ancillary transaction documents across private equity, M&A, and financing transactions.
• Act as the senior point of escalation for difficult legal, commercial, client, counterparty, or workflow issues, identifying, challenging, and formulating high-quality solutions.
• Oversee and review the work product of junior, specialist, and senior team members, ensuring quality, consistency, legal substance, and readiness for client distribution.
• Lead, sign off, review, and refine client playbooks, templates, and precedents, ensuring consistency with internal guidelines, format, and structure.
• Serve as the day-to-day account lead and ultimate “responsible person” for allocated clients, owning the overall health of each account.
• Be available and on call to clients, hosting regular check-ins, negotiation calls, and quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to assess platform usage, service performance, and account direction.
• Track customer health across allocated accounts, proactively identifying risks to satisfaction, retention, or renewal and acting early to address them.
• Take ownership of client complaints and issues end-to-end, drafting competent responses and driving them through to resolution.
• Support customer outreach and account growth, identifying opportunities to expand or deepen relationships — including onboarding additional document types, new workflows, or changes to scope — in partnership with the Account Manager.
• Provide coaching, feedback, mentoring, and training to team members, identifying development needs and designing and delivering targeted training.
• Monitor capacity, workload distribution, SLA performance, and service quality across your allocated group, escalating resourcing or performance issues as appropriate.
• Contribute to hiring, interviewing, onboarding, performance calibration, and progression discussions.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery, legal technology adoption, workflow design, and managed services scalability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal processes and delivery of workflows.

Principal Legal Lead

• As a Legal Specialist, you will work directly on live private equity, M&A, and financing transactions for leading global investment firms, asset managers, financial institutions, and corporates.
• You will review, draft, and negotiate NDAs and ancillary transaction documents in accordance with client-approved playbooks, ensuring alignment with sponsor-side legal and commercial positions.
• Working alongside our global legal team, you will support sophisticated clients on high-value transactions where precision, responsiveness, commercial judgement, and attention to detail are critical.
• You will also leverage our proprietary AI-enabled platform to accelerate document review, identify deviations from client positions, and improve delivery efficiency while maintaining full ownership of legal output.
• Working hours: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time (EST/EDT, depending on the time of year)

Financial Crime

• Perform end-to-end CDD and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) on institutional clients and counterparties
• Analyse complex ownership structures and identify Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs)
• Review Source of Wealth (SOW) and Source of Funds (SOF)
• Conduct sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening
• Escalate high-risk cases with clear risk summaries
• Support the onboarding of institutional investors and corporate entities
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of KYC documentation
• Perform risk classification and periodic reviews (KYC refresh)
• Provide AML/KYC input across deal lifecycle and transaction closings
• Track onboarding progress and coordinate documentation requirements
• Maintain accurate compliance records and case documentation
• Support audit readiness and regulatory reviews
• Prepare concise compliance reports and summaries
• Liaise with internal teams, clients, and external partners
• Follow up on outstanding documentation and onboarding queries
• Use compliance tools to improve efficiency and accuracy
• Identify and implement workflow improvements

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