paralegal

Alcazar Energy Partners; Dubai; Sur place; AED 180 000 - 300 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Alcazar Energy Partners seeks a capable Corporate Paralegal to support the legal team across the fund, management company, and SPVs. You will help with governance, entity management, contract drafting, tracking, and closing processes, ensuring accurate data and compliant documentation.

The role involves coordinating notarisation and regulatory filings, supporting due diligence, data rooms, and closing checklists, while liaising with external counsel and providers. Fluency in English is essential.

Qualifications

• Paralegal qualification or law degree or equivalent experience.
• 3–6 years corporate paralegal experience in infra, energy, PE, or funds.
• Strong corporate housekeeping across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience supporting M&A and financing through closing, CP tracking.
• Drafting skills for corporate docs with solid filing discipline.
• Proficiency in Office and SharePoint; familiarity with contract systems is a plus.
• High accuracy, strong organization, ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Fluent English written and spoken; Spanish/French desirable.

Responsabilités

• Manage corporate housekeeping for entities across jurisdictions.
• Prepare board/shareholder packs and draft minutes and resolutions.
• Maintain group structure, signatories, and key corporate data.
• Coordinate notarisation, apostille, and local counsel interactions.
• Draft and format corporate and commercial documents.
• Manage NDA workflow from preparation to filing.
• Support transactions and closings with CP tracking and checklists.
• Assist due diligence, data rooms, and document requests.
• Maintain contract trackers and renewals; file in SharePoint.
• Support KYC, compliance and regulatory filings.

Connaissances

Contract management

M&A support

Drafting & doc control

Multi-jurisdiction governance

Attention to detail

Fluent English

Formation

Paralegal qualification or law degree

Outils

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Description du poste

Job Description:

Alcazar Energy Overview:

Alcazar Energy Partners-II (AEP-II) is an independent sustainable infrastructure fund focused on investing, financing, and developing utility scale energy capacity in selected emerging markets. Current target geographies include the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Legal Director, the Paralegal will provide strong corporate paralegal support to Alcazar Energy's legal team across the fund, the management company and the holding companies and SPVs through which the fund invests in renewable energy platforms and projects. The role supports corporate governance, entity management, contract management and transactions, including drafting, filing, contract tracking and support on financial closings, and helps organise and structure the legal function as it grows.

Responsibilities:

• Manage corporate housekeeping for the group's entities across multiple jurisdictions, including statutory registers, filings, annual returns, share transfers, changes of directors and registered details.
• Prepare board and shareholder meeting packs, draft minutes, written resolutions, powers of attorney and certificates, and track execution.
• Maintain an accurate group structure chart and entity database, including directors, shareholdings, signatories and key corporate information.
• Coordinate notarisation, apostille and legalisation of documents, and liaise with corporate service providers and local counsel on entity matters.
• Draft and format corporate and commercial documents, such as standard agreements, letters, certificates and ancillary transaction documents.
• Manage the NDA workflow, including preparation, review against standard positions, circulation, execution and filing.
• Support transactions and financial closings, including Conditions Precedent (CP) tracking and follow-up, signing arrangements, closing checklists and preparation of closing bibles.
• Support due diligence, including setting up and managing data rooms, organising document requests and preparing summaries.
• Maintain contract and legal obligation trackers, monitoring key dates, renewals and deliverables.
• File and manage legal documentation in SharePoint, maintaining a clear structure and version control.
• Support KYC, compliance and regulatory filings, and assist with other legal projects as directed by the Legal Director.

Relationship Management:

• Work closely with the Legal Director and members of the legal team, as well as the investment, finance, development and delivery teams.
• Liaise with external counsel, corporate service providers, notaries, banks and registries on corporate and transaction matters.
• Coordinate with counterparties and advisers on document circulation, execution and closing requirements.

Leadership:

• Take ownership of corporate governance and entity management processes, working independently with minimal supervision.
• Help build and improve the legal team's templates, trackers, filing structure and processes as the function grows.
• Handle confidential information with professional discretion, and bring a reliable, structured and proactive approach.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Paralegal qualification or law degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–6 years' experience as a corporate paralegal, ideally gained in a law firm and/or in-house within infrastructure, energy, private equity or investment funds.
• Strong experience in corporate housekeeping and entity management across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience supporting M&A, financing or other transactions through to closing, including CP tracking and closing deliverables.
• Strong drafting skills for corporate documents, with excellent document management and filing discipline.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook) and SharePoint; experience with entity management or contract management systems is an advantage.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail, with strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Fluent English, written and spoken, is essential; Spanish and/or French is desirable.