Paralegal - Structured Transactions

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is one of the world’s leading global law firms seeking to hire a Paralegal for the Structured Transactions Practice Group. This role involves drafting legal agreements, managing deal closings, and liaising with clients and corporate service companies.

Responsibilities

• Drafting legal agreements and transaction documentation
• Managing deal closings and taking responsibility of all closing mechanics
• Frequent communication with many high-profile clients and third parties
• Liaising with corporate service companies to place various corporate orders
• Drafting officer certificates, resolutions and incumbency certificates
• Preparing and reviewing SEC filings, UCC financing statements/amendments, and specimen securities
• Compiling and distributing final deal documentation
• Post-closing responsibilities such as assembling closing sets consisting of all transaction documents and opinions

Skills

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Flexibility with overtime required
• Occasional travel may be required
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel), as well as PDF software
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in a professional environment to interact effectively with clients
• Strict attention to detail for document review and preparation
• Ability to multi-task a variety of assignments concurrently while under time constraints
• Self-starter who will take ownership of projects but always remain a team player
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business and professional publications, prepare business correspondence, effectively present information to groups of employees, and respond to questions from employees, managers, clients and vendors
• Advanced arithmetic skills (compute rate, ratio, percent; able to draw and interpret graphs and charts)
• Ability to solve practical problems, dealing with a variety of variables where little standardization exists
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw conclusions

Benefits

• Medical coverage, with a variety of plans
• Health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts
• Domestic partner coverage
• Parental leave
• Vacation and holiday leave
• Life and accident insurance
• Income protection, including sick leave, salary continuation, and long term disability

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