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
Company Overview
- From our offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, we work with clients ranging from established, global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups. It was founded in 1873, and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.morganlewis.com/.
Company H1B Sponsorship
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 6 in 2021, 9 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.