Transaction Legal Counsel

Employment Type: Contract

Team: Legal & Transaction Services

Location: Fully Remote (open to candidates based in Eastern and Southern Europe including Portugal Spain Italy and Greece.)

Company Description

Tangible is a fast-growing tech-driven platform providing liquidity solutions to LPs and GPs in the private-markets secondaries space. By combining deep sector expertise with modern infrastructure we unlock liquidity across private equity private credit and real assets transforming the industry and enabling investors to move faster and smarter.

You will be a key member of Tangibles legal and execution team working across a wide range of private-market transactions including secondary transfers and NAV lending engagements. You will help shape and manage the transaction lifecycle from legal documentation and regulatory onboarding to closing coordination and process execution. Youll play a critical role in ensuring our transactions run smoothly across multiple jurisdictions and counterparties. You will work independently yet collaboratively across deal teams fund administrators compliance partners lenders and institutional clients.

This is a remote role open to candidates based in Eastern and Southern Europe including Portugal Spain Italy and Greece. Must have strong familiarity with both US and UK legal frameworks as these jurisdictions underpin most of our work.

Tasks

• 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

You are a confident lawyer who thrives in a global fast-moving environment. Youre comfortable navigating cross-border transactions interpreting complex structures and coordinating among multiple stakeholders.

To succeed in this role you bring:

• 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.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in financial services private markets or fintech platforms.
• Experience coordinating multi-party closings involving lenders fund managers administrators custodians and institutional investors.
• Comfort working across international time zones and cultures.

This is a high-impact role where your work directly influences the quality and efficiency of Tangibles global execution engine. You will help build the legal DNA of a scaling private-markets platform. We offer competitive compensation (contract) flexible remote work and opportunities to grow within a mission-driven globally distributed team.