[Hiring] Working Student: Legal Research & Platform Implementation @Vestlane

Role Description

In this role, you work at the intersection of fund law, legal research, client implementation, and legal engineering. Your analysis doesn't end in a memo: you turn it into digital workflows that run in live fund closings and investor onboardings.

• Research and assess legal questions in the fund space: analyze limited partnership agreements (LPAs), subscription documents, and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions, including Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, and many more.
• Work directly with fund managers, law firms, and fund administrators to understand their existing legal and compliance processes and translate them into scalable, standardized workflows on Vestlane.
• Implement subscription documents on our platform: build them into legally sound, production-ready digital workflows with form logic, field mapping, and e-signature integration (DocuSign).
• Support client implementations from the first document review to go-live, and take on more responsibility for your own projects as you grow into the role.
• Feed what you learn back into our product: spot recurring legal and regulatory requirements across clients and jurisdictions and share them with our Product and Engineering teams.
• Work closely with our Legal & Compliance team, who provide subject-matter guidance, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our legal-tech processes, templates, and documentation.

Qualifications

• You are studying law (ideally from the fourth semester onwards) with an interest in corporate, business, or capital markets law, or you have already completed your degree.
• Students of business law (LL.B./LL.M.) and legal trainees (Referendar:innen) looking for a part-time role are equally welcome.
• You enjoy working through complex legal questions, but you are just as interested in what happens after the analysis: how requirements are implemented in practice and turned into efficient, repeatable processes.
• You work in a structured, detail-oriented way. Getting a document exactly right matters to you, because it will run in real fund closings.
• You are curious about technology and want to get hands-on with digital tools and processes. You don't need to be a developer, but you enjoy figuring out how things work.
• You communicate confidently in German and English, in writing and with clients.

Requirements

• First exposure to fund law, fund structures, or investor onboarding, for example through a seminar, internship, or a position at a law firm or fund administrator (nice to have, not required).

Benefits

• 20 hours per week, flexibly scheduled around lectures and exam periods.
• Remote-first, preferably located in the Cologne/Bonn area.
• Full equipment for working from wherever you are.
• Structured onboarding and a fixed mentor in the Legal & Compliance team.
• Real client projects and live fund closings from an early stage.
• Fund law across multiple jurisdictions and legal-tech tooling you won't find in a law firm.
• Clear career path support after your studies.