Transaction Legal Counsel
Tangible
contract
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇵🇹 Portugal
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating legal documentation for secondary transactions and NAV lending, including NDAs, LOIs, Purchase & Sale Agreements, Transfer Agreements, Credit Agreements and other contractual materials that support the transaction lifecycle.
- Interpreting fund documentation such as LPAs, offering materials, and side letters to identify transferability guidelines, consent requirements, and closing constraints.
- Managing global closing workflows by coordinating with buyers, sellers, fund managers, administrators, custodians, lenders, and compliance teams to ensure timely and accurate execution of all legal and operational deliverables.
- Overseeing KYC/AML onboarding processes for all counterparties, including identity verification, beneficial ownership review, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Improving legal infrastructure by refining templates, playbooks, checklists, and standardised processes to enhance consistency and reduce friction.
- Acting as a trusted advisor to internal teams, providing clear, concise guidance on legal requirements, transaction feasibility, and risk considerations in a fast-moving environment.
- Collaborating across business units, ensuring alignment between legal, operations, deal teams, and platform workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of post-qualification transaction legal experience, ideally in investment banking or financial institutions, private equity, advisory services, or corporate law in US or UK-governed agreements.
- Strong familiarity with both US and UK law-governed agreements, with the ability to interpret and apply these frameworks in a global transactional context.
- Ability to draft, review, and negotiate high-quality agreements under tight timelines.
- Experience with KYC/AML or regulatory compliance processes.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to translate complexity into clear, actionable guidance.
- Strong organisational discipline, with a structured approach to balancing multiple active workstreams.
- A pragmatic, commercially minded approach, supported by strong legal judgment and integrity.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (contract)
- Flexible remote work
- Opportunities to grow within a mission-driven, globally distributed team
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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