Legal Counsel
SeedLegals
Legal Counsel
SeedLegals
Automates startup fundraising, cap table, contracts
SeedLegals · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-02-12
Workplace: hybrid
Department: Legal
SeedLegals is the leading provider of automated legal solutions for startups, with offices in London, New York and Paris, and a team in Ireland.
We’re a Series A company, backed by exceptional VCs such as Index Ventures, committed to making entrepreneurship accessible to all. Since we launched in 2016, we’ve served more than 75,000 startups who have collectively raised more than £2 billion on our platform. We’ve changed how early-stage companies fundraise, reward their teams and scale their businesses, forever.
Our values are key to our success; here at SeedLegals, we:
About the Legal Team
We are an innovative and highly collaborative Legal team of around 12 people. Unlike other in-house roles, at SeedLegals, our lawyers are right in the middle of our products - helping to shape (at scale) the way in which companies pitch to investors, raise investment, and hire and retain talent. We automate what we can, and give customers access to experienced lawyers to handle the rest.
The Legal team is split into three divisions: GC (commercial & regulatory), Legal Product and Legal Advisory. While each division has a clear remit, we work collaboratively to continuously improve our products, deliver value to our customers and insulate the business from the typical risks that high-growth tech companies face. SeedLegals offers its lawyers the chance to work in a variety of roles, all of which have a genuine and realisable impact on our revenue and growth. While we sell automated solutions, it is our outstanding team behind the scenes that create, maintain and support our platform products.
We are committed to continuous learning and development as a business and as a legal team. You’ll have access to knowledge management resources and a variety of online learning tools. Most importantly, we learn from each other in a psychologically safe space in which no idea is too outrageous to be given air time. Everyone in the team contributes to this learning environment, sharing ideas and best practice.
About the Role
We’re seeking a bright, ambitious Legal Counsel to join the in-house Legal team at SeedLegals. Working across the GC (commercial & regulatory) and Legal Product teams, and reporting directly to the Head of Legal, you’ll play a pivotal role in providing pragmatic, commercially astute legal guidance across the business including Customer Experience (CX), Marketing, Partnerships, Product and Sales. You’ll also review and uphold the legal soundness of existing products while working with the Legal, Product and Tech teams to develop new products and features - and by doing so, you’ll be directly helping startups to run and grow their business.
This role has a broad remit and presents an exciting opportunity to undertake a wide range of corporate and commercial legal work with tech and automation at its core. The successful candidate will be a confident, dynamic lawyer who is able to work independently, takes ownership of legal projects, and has a genuine interest in contributing to the continued development of SeedLegals' innovative approach to legal services. We’re not fussy about PQE, although we believe this role is best suited for a lawyer with approximately 3-5 PQE. A background in private practice within a corporate / commercial team is preferred.
This role is based in the UK. Successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK, as this role is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.
Application and Interview Process
Rather than submit a traditional cover letter, we ask that you instead reflect on how your skills and experience relate to our product offering. Your cover letter will be part of the conversation in your first interview, as our team dives deeper into your response and formulates their initial interview questions around it.
Share options: the option to buy shares in SeedLegals via our performance-based share option scheme
Contributory pension, private healthcare, critical illness cover + life insurance
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Automates startup fundraising, cap table, contracts
SeedLegals is a legaltech platform that automates the administrative legal tasks startups need for fundraising, cap table management, and employee equity. It lets founders create, negotiate, and sign funding documents digitally—such as term sheets, shareholders' agreements, and resolutions—while also handling cap table distributions and employee stock option plans through automation. The service uses a pay-as-you-go model for individual legal products (e.g., closing a round or setting up an option plan) and subscription plans for ongoing needs like cap table maintenance and ongoing legal support. Compared with traditional law firms, SeedLegals simplifies and speeds up the process, lowers costs, and provides an integrated toolkit tailored to early-stage startups, especially in the UK and France. Its goal is to make essential legal services more accessible, faster, and affordable for the startup ecosystem.
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