We need an M&A attorney who can sit in on a diligence call, spot the one clause that's going to cause trouble in six months, and say so before the deal team has moved three slides past it. If that sounds like your particular skill, keep reading — this one's fully remote, salary is $150,000 a year, and there's no return-to-office clause hiding in the fine print.
The short version
You'd be advising clients on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and the occasional messy restructuring. Some clients are three years old and raising their first big round. Others have been around for decades and are buying a competitor. Both need a lawyer who won't bury them in caveats when what they actually need is a decision.
Day to day
No two weeks look identical in M&A, but here's roughly what you'd be doing:
- Drafting and negotiating term sheets, purchase agreements, and disclosure schedules
- Running due diligence — which mostly means chasing down finance, ops, and tax teams and turning what they find into something a client can actually act on
- Flagging structural or regulatory risk early, before it turns into a renegotiation
- Working securities and antitrust considerations into deal planning, and pulling in regulatory counsel when a matter needs it
- Briefing boards and executives directly — explaining what a clause means for their business, not just what it says
- Handling the aftermath once a deal closes: earn-outs, indemnity claims, updates to governance docs
That last part gets overlooked a lot in job postings, but post-closing work is where a good chunk of real M&A practice actually happens.
What you'll need
- A Doctoral degree — Juris Doctor or the equivalent — is the minimum here
- An active law license in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- At least 5 years doing M&A work, whether that's law firm, in-house, or some mix of both
- Real comfort with deal structuring and negotiation, not just familiarity with the terms
- A working handle on the regulatory landscape around corporate transactions
- Drafting skills sharp enough that you catch problems other reviewers miss
Also nice, not required
If you've worked cross-border deals, that's a plus. Same with experience inside a CLM platform or a virtual data room — most firms use one or the other, and knowing your way around them saves everyone time. PE-backed transactions, venture deal experience, a second language useful for global client work, or having mentored junior associates before — any of that helps your application stand out, though none of it is a dealbreaker on its own.
Tools you'd be working in
The stack is built for remote practice: secure data rooms, cloud collaboration tools, a CLM system for redlines and version tracking, and AI-assisted research tools when you need precedent fast. Candidates who find this listing through Naukri Mitra sometimes ask what "remote-first" actually means in a legal role beyond the job posting language — in practice, it means your own judgment sets the schedule, not a physical desk somewhere.
Pay and benefits
Base pay is $150,000 annually. Beyond that:
- Fully remote, with real flexibility in your hours — not just "flexible" on paper
- Health coverage that extends to dependents
- PTO that's separate from sick time
- A performance bonus tied to deal outcomes
- CLE credits and conference costs covered
- Mentorship from senior attorneys, and a real path toward partner track if that's the direction you want
Who you'd be working with
Most of the coordination happens over Slack and quick calls rather than long meetings — someone checking a clause before a client call, someone else flagging a risk they caught in diligence. It's a small team by design, which means fewer layers between catching a problem and fixing it. People here disagree openly when a deal point needs pushback, and that's treated as useful rather than awkward.
A few attorneys on the team are building toward partner. Others have chosen to go deep on a specific deal type or regulatory area instead. Both are supported — the check-ins are about where you actually want to go, not a scripted review cycle.
Applying
Send your resume, and include a short note on the most complicated deal you've worked — what made it hard, and how you got it across the line. That tells us more than a cover letter usually does.
Open to remote applicants in the United States, India, and other eligible regions; specific eligibility gets confirmed during the application process.
