Corporate & Capital Markets Lawyer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Analyze realistic scenarios related to corporate law, capital markets, securities, venture financing, and mergers & acquisitions.

• Conduct a comparison of six blinded legal documents designated A–F against a shared comparator output through a series of five direct comparisons.

• Evaluate transaction structures, legal reasoning, supporting documents, disclosure schedules, securities offerings, closing requirements, legal opinions, financing arrangements, and transaction papers.

• Identify significant legal inaccuracies, omissions, unsupported conclusions, incomplete or flawed legal analysis, and weak legal arguments.

• Assess accuracy, completeness, judgment, coherence, practical applicability, and adherence to professional standards.

• Differentiate between substantive quality differences and minor stylistic preferences.

• Choose the superior legal work product based on substantive quality.

• Offer clear and detailed written justifications for each preference decision.

• Cite relevant strengths, weaknesses, omissions, along with legal and practical considerations.

• Utilize practical judgment based on corporate, M&A, capital markets, securities, venture, and emerging company transactions.

• Adhere consistently to project instructions and evaluation criteria.

⛳️ Requirements

• Licensed attorney with significant professional experience in corporate law, capital markets, securities, venture financing, or M&A.

• Extensive experience in one or more areas such as corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, seller disclosure schedules, Rule 144A / Regulation S transactions, capital markets closing opinions, and Series B or other venture financings.

• Capable of assessing legal work comprehensively for accuracy, completeness, judgment, and practical applicability.

• Strong skills in transactional legal analysis.

• Excellent command of written English.

• Comfortable evaluating competing legal strategies and articulating preference decisions.

• Able to operate independently according to detailed written instructions and timelines.

• All project work is subject to NDA and confidentiality obligations.

• External AI tools must not be utilized on project materials.

• Work must be executed without the use of confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party.

• H1-B and STEM OPT support is not available for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote working arrangement.

• Part-time independent contractor engagement.

• Compensation ranging from $90 to $110 per hour.

• Approximately 24 hours of work throughout the engagement.

• Project duration may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project requirements and performance.