Paralegal (Debt Capital Markets)

Mayer Brown; Hong Kong Island; On-site; HKD 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayer Brown in Hong Kong seeks a skilled paralegal with Debt Capital Markets experience to support Partners and Associates in complex transactions. The role requires balancing high-stakes work with tight deadlines and a proactive learning mindset.

The candidate should be fluent in English and able to work with Mandarin and Cantonese. This is a permanent role in a busy Corporate & Securities team, offering exposure to a wide range of deal activity.

Qualifications

• Paralegal with 3–5 years in Debt Capital Markets.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Chinese language skills (Mandarin and Cantonese) for drafting.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to Partners and Associates in Hong Kong.
• Manage matters, review drafts, annotate changes and prepare document checklists.

Skills

Paralegal experience

DCM exposure

English fluency

Chinese language

Job description

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world's major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative and diverse firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support and development they need to grow, thrive and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm's client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you are looking to build your career in a dynamic and supportive environment, and share our commitment to exceptional client service, professionalism, initiative, responsiveness and adaptability, we invite you to join our Hong Kong office.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with an unwavering commitment to excellence. The team is busy and is looking for a candidate that has the ability to watch and learn, independently progress their skillset and learning and is able to effectively balance complex, high-stakes work and disruptive hours whilst delivering a high quality work product in a timely manner. This is an excellent opportunity for a self-motivated and driven individual to work in a premier legal team and become well-versed in a large variety of debt capital markets with wide geographical exposure.

• Provide support to Partners and Associates in Hong Kong.
• Matter management (e.g.: reviewing initial and subsequent drafts and summarizing changes and highlighting changes relevant to the client), handling documentation relating to closings and completion and document checklist review and annotation.

Qualifications, Experience and Personal Attributes

• Paralegal experience from leading U.S. or magic circle legal firms with 3 to 5 years of experience in the Debt Capital Markets practice.
• Fluent in oral and written English.
• The candidate will also need to be comfortable participating in conversations and written communications in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and able to review drafts in Chinese.

Experience And Attributes

• This is a permanent paralegal position in Mayer Brown's Corporate & Securities practice.
• Our clients are leading global banks and we are looking for a candidate that can perform routine tasks independently and to a high service quality that is expected from our clients.
• The practice is high volume and day-to-day work will require a thorough understanding of documentation and timelines. The candidate will need excellent organizational skills and demonstrate the ability to manage multiple projects each with a different scope of work in an efficient, high quality and timely manner.
• The debt capital markets practice often requires coverage outside of regular working hours and the candidate will be responsible for attending to and handling tasks during non-work hours and on weekends.