Paralegal - Structured Transactions
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is one of the world’s leading global law firms seeking to hire a Paralegal for the Structured Transactions Practice Group. This role involves drafting legal agreements, managing deal closings, and liaising with clients and corporate service companies.
Responsibilities
- Drafting legal agreements and transaction documentation
- Managing deal closings and taking responsibility of all closing mechanics
- Frequent communication with many high-profile clients and third parties
- Liaising with corporate service companies to place various corporate orders
- Drafting officer certificates, resolutions and incumbency certificates
- Preparing and reviewing SEC filings, UCC financing statements/amendments, and specimen securities
- Compiling and distributing final deal documentation
- Post-closing responsibilities such as assembling closing sets consisting of all transaction documents and opinions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- Flexibility with overtime required
- Occasional travel may be required
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel), as well as PDF software
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in a professional environment to interact effectively with clients
- Strict attention to detail for document review and preparation
- Ability to multi-task a variety of assignments concurrently while under time constraints
- Self-starter who will take ownership of projects but always remain a team player
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business and professional publications, prepare business correspondence, effectively present information to groups of employees, and respond to questions from employees, managers, clients and vendors
- Advanced arithmetic skills (compute rate, ratio, percent; able to draw and interpret graphs and charts)
- Ability to solve practical problems, dealing with a variety of variables where little standardization exists
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw conclusions
Benefits
- Medical coverage, with a variety of plans
- Health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts
- Domestic partner coverage
- Parental leave
- Vacation and holiday leave
- Life and accident insurance
- Income protection, including sick leave, salary continuation, and long term disability
Company Overview
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