M&A Corporate Paralegal — Detail-Oriented, AI-Enabled

APi Group; New Brighton (MN); On-site; USD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance package

Fitness center access

Wellness program

401K match

Employee stock plan

Profit sharing

Paid time off

Leadership development courses

Job summary

APi Group is seeking a proactive Corporate Paralegal to join our Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Counsel teams in New Brighton, MN. The role supports the legal team on domestically and cross-border mergers, financings, governance, entity management, and commercial transactions.

Responsibilities include due diligence, document preparation, closing coordination, entity formation, and board governance support, with opportunities to leverage AI to streamline workflows and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, paralegal certificate, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 3+ years of substantive paralegal experience supporting M&A, private equity, corporate transactions, and/or corporate governance matters at a law firm or within the legal department of a large corporation.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex transactions from diligence through closing.
• Strong working knowledge of entity formation, subsidiary management and governance documents, corporate records, and transaction-closing processes.
• Experience with virtual data rooms, entity-management platforms (Diligent), document-management systems, and Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience and expertise with legal AI platforms
• Familiarity with legal research and public-record search resources, including Secretary of State and UCC filing systems.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, judgment, and follow-through.
• Availability to work additional hours as needed to support transaction timelines and closings.

Responsibilities

• Support attorneys throughout all phases of M&A transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, reorganizations, joint ventures, and strategic investments.
• Coordinate and manage legal due diligence processes, including reviewing, organizing, and summarizing corporate records, material contracts, litigation matters, intellectual property, employment materials, real estate documents, and regulatory filings.
• Establish, maintain, and administer virtual data rooms; manage document requests, uploads, permissions, indexes, and closing deliverables.
• Prepare, review, and organize transaction documents, including disclosure schedules, board and stockholder consents, officer certificates, closing checklists, signature packets, and ancillary agreements.
• Assist with transaction closings, including coordinating execution of documents, compiling closing sets, tracking conditions precedent, and preparing and distributing closing binders.
• Prepare and file formation, qualification, amendment, dissolution, and DBA documents for corporations, LLCs, and other entities with applicable state and governmental authorities.
• Support and assist with subsidiary management and board governance including draft board resolutions, written actions and meeting minutes for both transactions and general corporate matters.
• Utilize AI for expediency and has the skill set to further build out the legal AI capabilities.
• Conduct corporate, UCC, lien, judgment, litigation, and other public-record searches; coordinate with registered agents, filing services, and third-party vendors.
• Communicate professionally and effectively with clients, opposing counsel, co-counsel, service providers, and internal legal and administrative teams.
• Contribute to the continued development of efficient workflows, templates, matter-management practices, and legal technology tools within the Corporate practice.

Skills

Paralegal experience

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Education

Paralegal education

Tools

Diligent

Microsoft Office

Virtual data rooms

Job description

APi Group is seeking a proactive Corporate Paralegal to join our Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Counsel teams in New Brighton, MN. The role supports the legal team on domestically and cross-border mergers, financings, governance, entity management, and commercial transactions.

Responsibilities include due diligence, document preparation, closing coordination, entity formation, and board governance support, with opportunities to leverage AI to streamline workflows and processes.