Elevate is recruiting a Senior Commercial Attorney for our Contracts - Managed Services team. As a Senior Commercial Attorney, you will be a member of the legal service delivery team for a global client, working closely with Customers, in-house counsel teams in different geographies, including in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. You will provide commercial and transactional support, working both independently on assigned projects, and collaboratively with the Customers, in-house team and the Elevate legal delivery teams across the globe. You will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating various contracts and other transactional documents as well as conducting general and legal research and drafting well-written memorandums.

Specifically, a Senior Commercial Attorney will:

• Review contracts against established standards and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that you will help create.
• Compare contracts and highlight differences and similarities in memorandum format.
• Facilitate escalation of unresolved issues, approval and signature.
• Update or draft playbooks and templates.
• Research and analyse areas of commercial law as relevant to the companys business and future prospects, and prepare memos or position statements for different audiences.
• Provide high level legal research and memorandum drafting support for other simple to high complexity legal research assignments.

Experience:

• 7-9 years of total experience with at least 5 years of experience with commercial transactional support, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SAAS agreements, procurement and other inbound agreements.
• Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements experience conducting medium to high complexity legal research and memorandum drafting.

Skills for Success:

• Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven environment.
• Like the sound of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment for a quickly growing company.
• Have experience providing transactional contracts support including reviewing, redlining, drafting, managing various types of contracts for a multinational company.
• Are a highly organized, excellent researcher and writer who is passionate about delivering high quality analysis and written work product.
• Want to work directly with an in-house legal department of a leading multinational corporation.
• Are proficient in relevant technology and have a keen eye for detail.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft products like Excel, Word, Power Pointetc.
• Experience with contract management software is a plus.

Qualification:

• LL.B. (LL.M. is preferred, but not mandatory)

Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.

Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:

• For the seventh consecutive year, in 2022, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top Global Services Provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing)
• Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact
• Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016
• Named by ALM Intelligence as the only Pacesetter in the Legal category in its 2021-2022 Legal Department Legal Operations report
• The first non-lawyer-owned global legal services provider to receive an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) License to provide legal services in the US

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