# Lawyer, Legal Insights

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Edinburgh
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

BlackRock is seeking a lawyer to join its Legal Insights team, a specialist private markets legal intelligence function focused on fund terms, governance, fees, benchmarking, legal data and market insights.

This is a unique opportunity to apply private funds legal expertise beyond traditional legal practice, working at the intersection of law, data, product innovation and commercial strategy.

**Responsibilities**

- Analyse LPAs, side letters, management agreements and other private markets documentation.

- Assess fee structures, carried interest, investor rights and governance provisions.

- Convert complex legal drafting into proprietary legal intelligence and benchmarking data.

- Support FAIR fee validation and Term Intelligence benchmarking.

- Contribute to legal data, AI-enabled extraction and thought leadership initiatives.

- Create insights that support client outcomes, product development and commercial growth.

**Requirements**

- Qualified lawyer with private funds, investment funds or asset management experience.

- Strong knowledge of private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate or hedge funds.

- Experience analysing complex fund documentation and applying legal judgement.

- Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.

**Why Join?**

- Supports legal benchmarking across 600+ private funds.

- Contributes to client findings generating millions of dollars in client value.

- Produces market-leading thought leadership and private markets insights.

- Helps shape the future of legal intelligence, legal data and AI in private markets.

**Benefits**

- Retirement investment and tools designed to help you build a sound financial future.

- Access to education reimbursement.

- Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being.

- Family support programs.

- Flexible Time Off (FTO).

**Hybrid Work Model**

- Work at least 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

## Skills

### Required
- private funds
- investment funds
- asset management
- legal drafting
- data analysis

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