Working student (m/f/d): legal research & platform implementation

Europe's private markets manage trillions in assets, yet much of the work behind them still runs on manual processes, spreadsheets, and fragmented legacy systems. Investor onboarding, KYC/AML checks, subscriptions, and closings can take weeks and tie up lawyers, fund administrators, and compliance teams.

Vestlane is changing that. We build the KYC/AML and onboarding platform for funds and asset managers: one system that takes investors from first contact to closing, with screening, risk scoring, and monitoring built in and audit-ready by default. Fund managers get a faster, fully digital process; their investors get an experience that finally matches the quality of the funds they invest in.

Since 2021, we have onboarded 12,000+ investors & assets from around the world into 600+ funds, working with leading European and international fund managers. Our team combines lawyers, engineers, and compliance experts, and we work in small, senior teams with real ownership and short decision paths. If you want to shape how an entire industry handles compliance rather than maintain the status quo, you'll fit in here.

Tasks

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice to have, not required:

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.

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

If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. A CV is enough, no cover letter needed. We review every application personally and get back to you within two weeks. After that, the process is one short step: a 45-minute call where we get to know each other, talk about your experience so far, and answer everything you want to know about the role.

Questions before applying? Reach out to us directly, we're happy to help.