Corporate Paralegal - London
Salary: £60,000 + Excellent Benefits + Bonus
Location: Central London
Hours: 12pm – 8.30pm
Award winning, leading American law firm are looking for an experienced corporate paralegal to join their transactional team and provide a first-class service to the firm’s clients. The successful paralegal will be joining a forward thinking, highly regarded US firm working on international deals including matters in leveraged finance, capital markets, M&A, corporate finance, venture capital, and private equity.
A selection of job responsibilities will include:
- During the diligence stage, reviewing and analysing documents; preparing, assembling, distributing and updating documents for general corporate, financial, exhibit and debt information binders.
- Preparation of Language Lists from Virtual Data Rooms.
- Drafting, editing and maintaining necessary checklists, organizational charts, spreadsheets and documents.
- Reading and editing documents for sense, consistency, cross reference accuracy, facts, calculations and typographical errors.
- Drafting due diligence memorandum, call logs, fact back up charts and transfers circle ups. Dealing with attorney requests from American offices.
- Throughout the life of a transaction will conduct various document searches and factual research, including searches on computerized systems when applicable.
- Assisting with due diligence matters by reviewing VDRs and preparing Language Lists.
- Proofreading agreements and other transactional documents.
- Assisting lawyers with transaction pre-closings and closings.
- Gathering precedents for new transactions.
- Preparing electronic and / or hard copies of bibles documenting transactions.
- Compiling execution copies of documents.
- Compiling/maintaining working party lists.
Collegiate, team-orientated environment. Fantastic opportunity for an ambitious corporate paralegal. Hours: 12pm – 8.30pm.
McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.