Corporate Paralegal, MCKINLAY LAW

Guardian Jobs; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious American law firm seeks an experienced Corporate Paralegal for a 9-month contract in London. The successful candidate will engage in due diligence tasks, document analysis, and transactional support, providing high-quality service in a collaborative team environment. Opportunities to gain exposure to international deals in finance and corporate law await the right applicant.

Benefits

Excellent Benefits

Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in capital markets or leveraged finance preferred.
• Excellent academics and confident communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and analysing documents during the diligence stage.
• Preparing organizational charts, spreadsheets, and documents.
• Proofreading agreements and transactional documents.

Skills

Document Analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Minimum 12 months experience as a Corporate Paralegal

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Job Title: Corporate Paralegal

Salary: to £62,000 depending on experience + Excellent Benefits + Bonus

Location: Central London

Hours: 12pm – 8.30pm

Type: Contract (9 months)

Award winning, leading American law firm are looking for an experienced corporate paralegal to join their transactional team and provide a first-class service to the firm’s clients. The successful paralegal will be joining a forward thinking, highly regarded US firm working on international deals including matters in leveraged finance, capital markets, M&A, corporate finance, venture capital, and private equity.

Job Title: Corporate Paralegal

Salary: to £62,000 depending on experience + Excellent Benefits + Bonus

Location: Central London

Hours: 12pm – 8.30pm

Type: Contract (9 months)

Award winning, leading American law firm are looking for an experienced corporate paralegal to join their transactional team and provide a first-class service to the firm’s clients. The successful paralegal will be joining a forward thinking, highly regarded US firm working on international deals including matters in leveraged finance, capital markets, M&A, corporate finance, venture capital, and private equity.

A selection of job responsibilities will include:

• During the diligence stage, reviewing and analysing documents; preparing, assembling, distributing and updating documents for general corporate, financial, exhibit and debt information binders.
• Preparation of Language Lists from Virtual Data Rooms.
• Drafting, editing and maintaining necessary checklists, organizational charts, spreadsheets and documents.
• Reading and editing documents for sense, consistency, cross reference accuracy, facts, calculations and typographical errors.
• Drafting due diligence memorandum, call logs, fact back up charts and transfers circle ups.
• Dealing with attorney requests from American offices.
• Throughout the life of a transaction will conduct various document searches and factual research, including searches on computerized systems when applicable.
• Assisting with due diligence matters by reviewing VDRs and preparing Language Lists.
• Proofreading agreements and other transactional documents.
• Assisting lawyers with transaction pre-closings and closings.
• Gathering precedents for new transactions.
• Preparing electronic and / or hard copies of bibles documenting transactions.
• Compiling execution copies of documents.
• Compiling/maintaining working party lists.
  
  
  

An exceptional environment and a fantastic opportunity in a dynamic and progressive law firm to gain quality experience for the successful paralegal. It is essential that you already have experience as a corporate paralegal (an absolute minimum of 12 months, ideally in capital markets or leveraged finance but they will consider general corporate paralegals from another leading US/UK law firm) and have confident communication skills and excellent academics. An understanding of documentation required for High Yield Bond Transactions will be highly beneficial. Collegiate, team-orientated environment. Fantastic opportunity for an ambitious corporate paralegal. Hours: 12pm – 8.30pm. This role will be offered on a contract basis, circa 9 months.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.

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