Commercial Attorney-contracts

Elevate is recruiting a** **Commercial Attorney** for our **Contracts - Managed Services** team. As a 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 Commercial Attorney will: -**
- Provide commercial and transactional support for multinational companies, including reviewing, redlining, drafting, and managing various types of commercial contracts.
- Working both independently on assigned projects, and collaboratively with the client’s in-house team and the Elevate legal delivery teams across the globe.
- Conducting general, compliance, and legal research in the areas of commercial law and drafting well written memorandums.
- Deliver high quality risk and gap analysis of contracts.
- Proficient in relevant technology and have a keen eye for detail.
- Update or draft playbooks and templates.

**Experience**
- 4 years of experience in commercial transactional support and technology/IT contracts, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly master services agreements, procurement, supply, and other inbound agreements.
- Experience conducting medium to high complexity legal research and memorandum drafting.
- Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements.

**Skills for Success**
- Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven environment.
- Highly detail oriented, with good analytical skills, financial acumen, and business judgment
- Excellent drafting skills, particularly depicting complex ideas clearly and concisely.
- Professionalism in both verbal and written work
- Keen understanding and ability to comply with confidentiality obligations.
- Excellent listening as well as communication skills
- Integrity and ability to own mistakes.

**Technical Skills**
- Experience with Microsoft products like Excel, Word, PowerPointetc
- Some 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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