• Develop, maintain, and refine sophisticated financial models in Excel to support investment decisions, negotiations, and portfolio management.
• Monitor and analyze loan budgets and milestones.
• Conduct detailed credit risk analyses, evaluating borrower reorganization viability, market conditions, and collateral quality to inform underwriting decisions and negotiations.
• Collaborate with the investment and risk management teams to provide data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Prepare and present reports to senior management on portfolio performance, risk exposure, and investment opportunities.
• Stay abreast of market trends and potential impacts on portfolio risk and investment opportunities.
• Enhance loan origination and monitoring processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field is required; advance degrees are highly regarded.
• 3-5 years’ experience in financial analysis, modeling, and risk assessment in a finance, banking, or private credit environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including experience with building complex financial models.
• Familiarity with data visualization is valued.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Valued traits include flexibility, humility, a growth mindset, and a good sense of humor.

Where You Come In:

• Help to design and implement the architecture of a large-scale crawling system
• Design, implement, and maintain various components of our data acquisition infrastructure (building new crawlers, maintain existing crawlers, data cleaners & loaders)
• Work on developing tools to facilitate the scraping at scale, monitor the health of crawlers and ensure data quality of the scraped items. 
• Collaborate with our product and business teams to understand / anticipate requirements to strive for greater functionality and impact in our data gathering systems 

What you’ll be bringing to the team:

• 3+ Years experience with Python for data wrangling and cleaning
• 2+ Years experience with data crawling & scraping at scale (100+ spiders at least)
• Productionized experience with Scrapy is mandatory. Distributed crawling and advanced scrapy experience are a plus.
• Familiarity with scraping libraries and monitoring tools highly recommended (BeautifulSoup, Xpaths, Selenium, Puppeteer, Splash)
• Familiarity with data pipelining to integrate scraped items into existing data pipelines.
• Experience extracting data from multiple disparate sources including HTML, XML, REST, GraphQL, PDF, and spreadsheets.
• Experience running, monitoring and maintaining a large set of broad crawlers (100+ spiders) 
• Sound Knowledge in bypassing Bot Detection Techniques
• Experience using techniques to protect web scrapers against site ban, IP leak, browser crash, CAPTCHA and proxy failure.
• Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as containerization tools like Docker and orchestration such as kubernetes or others.
• Ability to maintain all aspects of a scraping pipeline end to end (building and maintaining spiers, avoiding bot prevention techniques, data cleaning and pipelining, monitoring spider health and performance).
• OOP, SQL and Django ORM basics

Even better if you have, but not necessary:

• Experience with microservices architecture would be a plus.
• Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc
• Experience with DevOps
• Expertise in data warehouse maintenance, specifically with Google BigQuery (ETLs, data sourcing, modeling, cleansing, documentation, and maintenance)
• Familiarity with job scheduling & orchestration frameworks - e.g. Jenkins, Dagster, Prefect

We're hiring a Head of Human Resources to lead our HR and recruiting functions. This position reports directly to Legalist’s executive team. You’ll be joining a growing team of engineers, lawyers, and investment analysts in a fast-paced environment. If you're an experienced human resources professional interested in helping us grow to the next level, we’d love to talk with you.

Core responsibilities:

• Manage payroll/compensation, benefits, and related administrative matters for a worldwide team of investment professionals
• Coordinate recruiting for individual teams and assist team leads with sourcing and retaining new colleagues
• Oversee annual evaluation process and facilitate year-round performance feedback for individual teams/personnel
• Develop and own employee onboarding and ongoing training processes
• Assist and provide guidance to executive and legal teams on employment law compliance and related issues

Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ relevant experience
• Expertise with employment law compliance in California, New York, and similar jurisdictions
• Highly organized with well-developed attention to detail and project management abilities
• Prior experience at multistate and/or international employer strongly preferred
• Prior experience in asset management industry strongly preferred
• Flexibility, humility, and a sense of humor required

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Fully remote workplace
• Annual company retreat
• Twelve paid vacation days and ten paid holidays

Core responsibilities

Your primary focus will be assisting our finance team with their daily operations, actively working with our finance director for any related tasks.Your core responsibilities are to help assist in the following:

• updating internal systems with financial data
• participating in the preparation of
  • net asset value (NAV) package and LP allocation review (including shadow LP allocation schedule)
  • LP performance reporting 
  • capital summary and statements, as well as annual/ quarterly compliance and tax filings
  • investor transfers
  • subscription onboarding/ investor transfers/ LP tracking
  • expense preparation and analysis
• overseeing entire capital calls/ distributions process
• monitoring and preparing LP/ investor requests

Required qualifications for this role:

• Bachelor's Degree with a background in accounting, finance, or accounting tech
  • CPA certification is a plus
• Proficiency in MS Office (particularly Excel), GSuite (particularly GSheets), and other similar applications
• Graveyard shift experience (the target schedule is from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time (-04:00)
• Fast, stable and reliable internet connection
• We also prefer folks who possess:
  • great communication skills
  • the flexibility to take on different projects with minimal supervision
  • administrative skills: research and data validation
  • a meticulous, self-motivated, and solution-oriented outlook

Compensation:

• $6.5/ hour starting rate after probation
• Paid US holidays beginning Month 2
• PTO beginning Month 3
• Annual tech allowance beginning Year 2
• Individual health insurance beginning Year 2
• Annual mid-year performance reviews with performance-based bonuses and a potential rate increase

Core responsibilities

Your primary focus will be assisting our Investment Counsel with client scheduling and correspondence, as well as document and record management. 

Your core responsibilities are to:

• Schedule calls
• Correspond with clients
• Manage inboxes and calendars
• Manage our internal database
• Provide additional assistance to our Investment Counsel to achieve their underwriting goals

Required qualifications for this role:

• Bachelor's Degree
  • Legal background is a plus
• Familiarity with GSuite
• Graveyard shift experience (the target schedule is from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time (+08:00)
• Fast, stable and reliable internet connection
• We also prefer folks who possess:
  • the flexibility to take on different projects with minimal supervision
  • administrative skills: research, data validation, lead generation
  • a meticulous, self-motivated, and solution-oriented outlook

Compensation:

• $5.75/ hour starting rate after probation
• Paid US holidays beginning Month 2
• PTO beginning Month 3
• Annual tech allowance beginning Year 2
• Individual health insurance beginning Year 2
• Annual mid-year performance reviews with performance-based bonuses and a potential rate increase

We're hiring aGovernment Receivables Investment Coordinatorto conduct due diligence and assist in presenting investment memos on our newest private credit strategy. You’ll be joining a growing team of engineers, lawyers, and data scientists to make real-time decisions in a fast-paced environment. If you come from a background as a Paralegal, Analyst, or Associate and are interested in working at a technology powered investment firm, we highly encourage you to apply. 

Core responsibilities:

• Coordinate underwriting of potential Government Receivable investments, including conducting borrower interviews and analyzing due diligence materials
• Organize diligence and monitoring efforts across a growing portfolio of revolving loans
• Draft investment memoranda summarizing results of underwriting and strengths and weaknesses of potential investments
• Assist in tasks across functions including: origination, underwriting, structuring, portfolio management, operations, technology and marketing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Finance or related field desirable or equivalent experience from a top-tier institution
• 3-5 years of transactional-based or similar underwriting experience
• Experience in financial statement analysis, financial modeling or financial valuation; preparing financial information, interpreting financial performance or assessing risk exposure
• Ability to articulate financial concepts and information in both verbal and written forms
• Excellent organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to work seamlessly in a cross-functional team environment spanning multiple disciplines
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous and fast paced startup environment

Legalist is adding aSoftware Engineer to our growing tech team. You'll work closely with our other engineers to build and ship key features. You'll directly influence our entire tech stack, from standards to frameworks to architecture. We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.

Responsibilities

• Contribute towards improving Legalist’s internal data processing tools and frameworks
• Collaborate with teammates to design data pipelines and APIs, seeking and offering feedback along the way.
• Build tools to extract data from various sources to enrich the data that we collect - we ingest a lot of data! 

Key Qualifications

• A love for technology, API’s, and an insatiable curiosity for tackling problems
• 4+ years of experience object-oriented language - Python (preferred)
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with a variety of databases
• Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as cloud solutions like Kubernetes, Docker, BigQuery, etc
• You have a pragmatic, data-driven mindset and are not dogmatic or overly idealistic about technology choices and trade-offs
• You have an aptitude for learning new things quickly and have the confidence and humility to ask clarifying questions

We're hiring a Head of Investor Relations reporting directly to Legalist's CEO. The ideal candidate has substantial existing relationships among institutional capital allocators and investors and will be able to marshal internal resources (across marketing, finance, legal/compliance, and investments) to meet Legalist’s fundraising and investor relations goals.

Responsibilities:

• Expand Legalist’s investor base while growing capital commitments from existing investors
• Respond to periodic investor inquiries and coordinate quarterly reporting
• Lead marketing and branding for Legalist in investor-facing communications
• Counsel Legalist’s leadership on future product offerings and opportunities
• Act as principal point of contact for all current and potential Legalist investors, as well as press and marketing contacts

Qualifications:

• 10+ years’ relevant experience in fundraising for alternative assets, either in-house at an asset manager or at a third-party placement firm 
• Substantial book of existing relationships among institutional capital allocators, including foundations, endowments, and family offices 
• Comfortable managing internal resources and stakeholders, while ultimately owning all fundraising and investor relations outcomes
• Process oriented, with track record of developing and institutionalizing best practices  
• Prior success in managing placement agents and similar service providers

We're hiring anInvestment Counselto help deploy our latest litigation finance fund. You’ll be joining a growing team of engineers, lawyers, and investment analysts to make real-time decisions in a fast-paced environment. If you're an experienced lawyer interested in building the future of law and finance, we’d love to talk with you. 

Core responsibilities:

• Legal research and due diligence on investment opportunities
• Preparation of investment memos
• Real-time negotiation with plaintiffs and attorneys over investment terms and pricing
• Training and working closely with the engineering team to translate legal knowledge into automation
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, History, Law or related field desirable or equivalent experience from a top-tier institution. 
• J.D. from an accredited top 20 law school
• 10+ years post-law school experience, including in a litigation practice at AmLaw 200 firm and/or comparable boutique firms
• Experience with plaintiff-side representation, alternative fee arrangements, litigation finance, and/or in an asset-management environment are pluses but not required
• Experience in several of the following areas: commercial litigation, breach of contract, antitrust, multidistrict litigation, employment disputes, whistleblower claims, corporate governance litigation
  
  

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Fully remote workplace
• Annual company retreat
• Twelve paid vacation days and ten paid holidays

We're hiring aPortfolio Counselto lead monitoring of our growing portfolio of litigation finance investments. You’ll be joining a growing team of engineers, lawyers, and data scientists to make real-time decisions in a fast-paced environment.

In this role, you willownour existing 200+ litigation finance investments, reporting directly to our Managing Director and weekly to our Chief Investment Officer. Our portfolio requiresactivemanagement by someone able to combine commercial savvy with legal nous.

This is afront-officeposition for someone looking to apply legal skills to managing a large number of investment positions. This person is comfortable (in addition to monitoring underlying commercial litigation) with analyzing contracts, negotiating with counterparties, and resolving disputes – all with an eye to optimally exiting our investment positions. 

If you are a commercially minded generalist who enjoys hard work and new challenges, this may be the job for you; if you’ve ever answered a question with “I’m not that kind of attorney” – or “I’m just an attorney” – this would probably not be a good fit.

Core responsibilities:

• Serve as primary contact with our investment counterparties and monitor progress of underlying cases
• Report investment progress to internal stakeholders and evaluate problem investments for internal and external escalation
• Work with colleagues on our Finance and Investor Relations teams on quarterly reporting of investment positions
• Own the valuation process for our litigation finance investment, including serving on the company’s Valuation Committee

Qualifications:

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• 6+ years litigation, restructuring, or similar experience, including prior inhouse experience
• Prior experience at an investment adviser or financial firm a plus

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, and vision
• Annual Company Retreat
• Twelve paid vacation days plus ten bankable federal holidays

Core responsibilities

Your primary focus will be assisting our Investment Managers with emails, scheduling calls, and other similar tasks.

We send hundreds of emails a day to prospective lawyers. You'll be on the front lines of that, helping to schedule calls between lawyers and our Investment Managers and Investment Counsel for a smooth and efficient workflow. Your core responsibilities are to:

• Schedule calls
• Correspond with clients
• Manage inboxes and calendars
• Manage our internal database and sales CRM
• Provide additional assistance to our Investment Managers to achieve their sales goals

Required qualifications for this role:

• Bachelor's Degree
  • Legal background is a plus
• Graveyard shift experience
  • Our sales assistants work from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time (+08:00)
• Fast, stable and reliable internet connection
• We also prefer folks who possess:
  • the flexibility to take on different projects with minimal supervision
  • administrative skills: research, data validation, lead generation
  • a meticulous, self-motivated, and solution-oriented outlook

Compensation:

• $5/ hour starting rate after probation
• Paid US holidays beginning Month 2
• PTO beginning Month 3
• Annual tech allowance beginning Year 2
• Individual health insurance beginning Year 2