Corporate Paralegal

Ave Staffing; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Multidisciplinary Practice Exposure

Top-Tier Document Management Stack

Job summary

Ave Staffing seeks a senior Corporate Paralegal in Raleigh, NC for a hybrid role supporting up to 6 attorneys. You will drive high-stakes transactional workflows across mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, securities, and regulatory matters, leveraging a premier corporate practice and top-tier legal tech stack.

Responsibilities include entity lifecycle management, due diligence, multi-state licensing, UCC filings, and governance drafting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of corporate paralegal experience in transactional matters.
• Strong understanding of corporate entity structures, M&A closing mechanics, and regulatory compliance.
• Proficiency with legal tech: Office 365, NetDocuments, Adobe Acrobat Pro, DocuSign.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end entity lifecycles: formations, qualifications, governance amendments, dissolutions, withdrawals.
• Lead due diligence, create and manage virtual data rooms, draft closing docs, finalize binders.
• Support multi-state regulatory filings for regulated sectors including AEC.
• Coordinate UCC filings, lien searches, and tax lien tracking with vendors.
• Collaborate with real estate attorneys to file Secretary of State packets.
• Draft corporate resolutions, operating agreements, memos, consents, and shareholder communications.
• Oversee document management to ensure audit readiness and clean data governance.

Skills

Corporate transactional experience

M&A knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Office 365 proficiency

Power-user in document management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate degree in Paralegal Studies

NCCP Paralegal Certification

Tools

NetDocuments

Adobe Acrobat Pro

DocuSign

Office 365

Job description

Job Title: Corporate Paralegal

Location: Raleigh, NC (Hybrid / Onsite)

Salary: $80,000 - $110,000 DOE

Key Perks: Multidisciplinary Practice Exposure | Top-Tier Document Management Stack

Accelerate your career in a sophisticated, high-velocity corporate practice. This premier law firm is seeking an elite, senior-level Corporate Paralegal to drive high-stakes transactional and operational workflows. Supporting up to 6 attorneys, this pivotal role interfaces with cutting-edge industries across mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, tech startups, securities, intellectual property, and specialized regulatory matters. It offers an exceptional opportunity to manage complex entity lifecycles while utilizing a top-tier legal tech stack in a modern hybrid work structure.

Core Responsibilities

• Entity Lifecycle Management: Execute end-to-end corporate formations, foreign qualifications, governance amendments, dissolutions, and state withdrawals.
• M&A Transactional Execution: Spearhead due diligence workflows, engineer virtual data rooms (VDRs), draft ancillary closing documents, and finalize closing binders.
• Regulatory Compliance & Licensing: Facilitate multi-state business licensing filings for highly regulated fields, including Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sectors.
• UCC & Lien Administration: Coordinate comprehensive Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings, judgment searches, and Federal tax lien tracking with external vendors.
• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Partner with commercial real estate attorneys to draft and file specialized Secretary of State real estate document packets.
• Corporate Governance Drafting: Author and edit complex corporate resolutions, operating agreements, legal memoranda, consents, and shareholder correspondence.
• Information Governance: Oversee pristine document management protocols within the digital ecosystem to ensure flawless data collection and audit readiness.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of dedicated corporate paralegal experience handling transactional law firm operations.
• Transactional Literacy: Advanced comprehension of corporate entity structures, M&A closing mechanics, capital tables, and regulatory compliance.
• Technical Ecosystem: Power-user proficiency in Office 365, NetDocuments, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and DocuSign.
• Credentials: Bachelor's degree, Associate degree in Paralegal Studies, or North Carolina State Bar Paralegal Certification (NCCP) highly preferred.