Remote Corporate Governance Paralegal

TerrAscend; Maryland; Remote; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness coverage

401(k) savings opportunities

Paid time off and company holidays

Job summary

TerrAscend is seeking a Legal Assistant to support governance, board administration, and compliance across its U.S. subsidiaries.

The role reports to the Senior Counsel, Securities & Financing and involves preparing draft board materials, managing Diligent, and assisting with 16 filings and D&O questionnaires. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree, 4+ years paralegal experience, and strong MS Office skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Paralegal Degree or experience working as a paralegal in a large law firm or in-house corporate law department.
• At least 4 years of paralegal experience including project and operations management, strong qualitative, analytical, and communication skills in an administrative or operations position involving legal or compliance.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint; SharePoint; database (Access, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Assist with entity formation, state registrations and filings and day-to-day maintenance of U.S. and international subsidiaries, including managing annual compliance with outside counsel and service providers, updating entity management platform, and assisting with execution of documents needed to maintain TerrAscend’s subsidiaries.
• Assist with implementing and maintaining compliance related policies and processes.
• Work with other members of the legal team to drive progress on cross-functional projects while looking for opportunities to improve processes to help the company scale and become more efficient.
• Respond to requests for information as needed including assisting company personnel with information or other data from the legal department, and assist auditors, outside counsel, regulatory agencies and others as required with information from corporate and legal files and minute books.
• Attend to notarization and legalization of corporate documents in the U. Assist with various equity-related matters and documentation.
• Assist with collecting documents for corporate insurance renewal.
• Discreetly handle confidential information and maintain complete confidentiality at all times.
• Act as a liaison with other departments, including senior management team, department heads, facility directors, and other corporate staff, to provide legal documents and agreements and to obtain from/furnish to government agencies information, data and forms.
• Provide some administrative support to the Legal department.

Skills

Paralegal experience

Communication skills

Administrative experience

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Paralegal degree or experience

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Access

Job description

TerrAscend is seeking a Legal Assistant to support governance, board administration, and compliance across its U.S. subsidiaries.

The role reports to the Senior Counsel, Securities & Financing and involves preparing draft board materials, managing Diligent, and assisting with 16 filings and D&O questionnaires. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree, 4+ years paralegal experience, and strong MS Office skills.