Senior Commercial Attorney

Elevate is recruiting a Senior Commercial Attorney in our Contracts - Managed Services team. Senior Commercial Attorney will beworking closely with in-house legal departments and their internal business clients. He/she will provide deal support and participate on projects to improve of our client's contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes. He/she will work independently on assigned matters but will also work collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team as well as the clients in house team.

Specifically, the Senior Commercial Attorney will

• Draft, review, redline, negotiate various contracts and other transactional documents as well as conducting general, compliance and legal research and drafting well written memorandums.
• 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 company's business and 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 quickly learn new systems and adapt to new processes.

Skills for Success

• Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven environment.
• Dependable, responsive, and committed to producing high quality work.
• Flexible, and willing to pitch in on matters and projects to better serve our clients, even if the work falls outside your normal scope of duties.
• Excellent writing skills, particularly depicting complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Excellent listening as well as communication skills and the judgment to know which skill to use in each setting.

Experience

• 6+ years of legal practice with at least 4-6 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.
• Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements.
• Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Must have worked in Customer facing contracts review and negotiation role.

Qualifications

• LL.B. (LL.M. is a plus)

Company Information

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:

• Certified as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Development 2025 by Great Place to Work.
• Certified as a Great Place to Work 2025 in the US, UK, India, and Philippines.
• For the tenth consecutive year, in 2025, 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) and as an Alternative Legal Service Provider in Asia-Pacific.
• Newsweek named Elevate one of 'America's Greatest Workplaces in Professional Services' for 2025 and previously awarded it the highest rating in the 'America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity' and 'America's Greatest Workplaces for 2024' lists.
• For the fourth year in a row, Elevate's integrated law firm is designated as a top law firm in Commercial Litigation in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Best Law Firms.
• Elevate named a top ALSP in Asia by Thomson Reuters' Asian Legal Business in 2024.
• Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016.
• Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact.

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