Remote Corporate Governance Paralegal

TerrAscend; West Virginia; Remote; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness — Medical, dental, &

401(k) savings opportunities

Paid time off

Job summary

TerrAscend is seeking a Legal Assistant to support Senior Counsel, Securities & Financing, and the Legal & Compliance team. You will help manage board materials, maintain entity records, prepare filings, and assist with Diligent and governance processes.

The role offers remote work eligibility across eligible states and opportunities to grow within a fast-evolving cannabis company with extensive compliance responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Paralegal degree or experience 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.

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

Project management

Communications

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Paralegal degree or experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Access

Job description

TerrAscend is seeking a Legal Assistant to support Senior Counsel, Securities & Financing, and the Legal & Compliance team. You will help manage board materials, maintain entity records, prepare filings, and assist with Diligent and governance processes.

The role offers remote work eligibility across eligible states and opportunities to grow within a fast-evolving cannabis company with extensive compliance responsibilities.