Experienced paralegal - 18-month fixed-term contract

Natixis NY Branch; Paris; Sur place; EUR 42 000 - 62 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Natixis CIB in Paris seeks an experienced paralegal for an 18-month fixed-term contract in the Capital Markets legal team. The role supports lawyers in standardized, essential tasks around derivative transactions, repos, and securities lending with a focus on financing coverage operations.

You will monitor documentation flow, assist with signature logistics, and maintain repositories, ensuring accuracy and timely updates in a global, professional setting.

Qualifications

• Holder of at least a 1-year master’s degree in private law/business law.
• At least 10 years of experience in similar positions within a bank or law firm, with significant experience in banking and financial legal documentation.
• Proficient in English with minimum B2 level.

Responsabilités

• Manage daily tasks in the Derivatives and Structured Finance team, focusing on legal and documentary processes.
• Handle simple amendments within predefined models and alert lawyers for non-standard issues.
• Coordinate signatures and ensure proper documentation execution and archiving.
• Manage confidentiality agreements (NDAs) using approved templates and liaise with internal/external parties.
• Monitor and update legal opinions, update databases and repositories.

Connaissances

English proficiency

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Legal documentation

Formation

Master’s degree in private law/business law

Outils

Office tools

Document management tools

Description du poste

Experienced paralegal - 18-month fixed-term contract

• Fixed Term Contract
• 21752
• Paris

Company Description

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.

Our teams of experts in close to 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. Natixis CIB is committed to aligning its financing portfolio with a carbon neutrality path by 2050 while helping its clients reduce the environmental impact of their business.

As part of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group’s financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A+, Moody's: A2, Fitch Ratings: A+,R&I: A+).

Job Description

You join the Capital Markets department of the legal department of Natixis CIB. The Derivatives and Structured Finance team handles all legal matters relating to derivative transactions, repurchase agreements (repo) and securities lending, on various types of underlying assets, in coordination with teams based in Paris and London.

As an experienced paralegal (F/H), you support the team with recurring legal and documentary tasks that are standardized and essential to the proper functioning of the activity, particularly in the context of financing coverage operations. (in particular interest rate swaps covering financing of the type revolving credit facility and term loan).

You work under the supervision of the team’s lawyers, with a key role in the fluidity, reliability, and operational monitoring of documentation.

On a daily basis, your tasks are to:

• Manage new simple funding covers with support for documentation related to already signed funding; analyze the files according to defined legal and documentary criteria; ensure the processing of transactions that do not give rise to a substantial negotiation; identify discrepancies or non-standard points and elevate them to the relevant lawyers;
• Deal with simple amendments, intervene in a standardized framework, based on predefined models, procedures and criteria and alert legal experts as soon as a substantive issue or a particular difficulty is identified;
• Follow up on signatures and document execution with the coordination of signature circuits; ensure the proper monitoring of the execution of documentation; control the completeness of files and ensure the archiving and proper maintenance of documentary repositories;
• Manage confidentiality agreements (NDAs) by implementing and monitoring them on the basis of approved templates; coordinate exchanges with internal and external interlocutors and elevate to lawyers any clause or non-standard request;
• Coordinate the monitoring of legal opinions as well as their updating; update internal databases and repositories and liaise with internal and external stakeholders on these topics.

You work in an international environment, within a community of experts who place excellence, impact and collective action at the heart of everything they do.

This position is based in Paris with the possibility to work from home.

As a Top Employer, we place our employees at the center of our attention. Internal mobility, career development and training programs allow you to grow and flourish throughout your journey.

You work in a hybrid, inclusive and collaborative working environment.

You also have the opportunity to engage in favor of society and causes that are important to you through our corporate foundation.

About the recruitment process

You will be contacted by one of our recruiters before meeting our business experts (manager, team member or business sector).

Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience

About you: If this is your description, you are made to work with us! Holder of at least a 1-year master’s degree in private law/business law, you have at least 10 years of experience in similar positions within a bank or law firm, with significant experience in banking and financial legal documentation, and ideally in derivatives and/or financing.

You master:

• Document tracking and signature processes;
• Legal documentation;
• Issues related to the legal documentation of financing and/or derivatives;
• Office tools and document management tools.

You have excellent interpersonal skills, a very good ability to listen; you are:

• Rigorous, organized, versatile;
• Recognized for your team spirit, reliability in execution and follow-up;
• Appreciated for your interpersonal ease.

You are proficient in English with a minimum B2 level.