Paralegal: Corporate + Finance

Boston, MA

Summary

It’s an exciting time to join a premier, global, law firm’s brand new Boston office!  Join this fast-paced team and provide world class service to their attorneys and clients. 

Paralegal Responsibilities

• Apply practice-related knowledge and skills to complete projects and tasks; effectively identify, promote, and apply technologies to maximize efficiency in carrying out assignments.
• Manage broad range of projects of varying degrees of complexity, adapting procedures as needed to meet business needs.
• Leverage resources to efficiently gather data and to develop networks of relevant resources and services.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and prioritize effectively.
• Review documents and data; perform procedural and factual research with understanding of client and business needs.
• Create and maintain, or oversee maintenance of, client files.
• Demonstrate sound judgment, critical thinking, and ingenuity to assess alternatives and to identify and recommend solutions.
• Apply analytical skills to determine issues; proactively suggest appropriate solutions and recommendations to enhance final work product.
• May oversee and provide guidance to other paralegals to ensure effective collaboration and consistency and accuracy in work product.
• Comply with administrative requirements to meet billable expectations; prepare and release timenotes on a daily basis; prepare and submit timecards on a weekly basis. 

Corporate Responsibilities

• Assist in all phases of corporate transactions from inception to closing.
• Assist with entity formation, including drafting subscription, shareholder, employment, and confidentiality agreements, checking and reserving corporate names, and preparing drafts of corporate organizational documents.
• Draft and file documents related to business incorporation and ongoing operations.
• Assist with closings of venture capital financings, public offerings, acquisitions and mergers, and other transactions.
• Assist with due diligence and data rooms.
• Organize and maintain deal documents, minute books, corporate records, and stock ledgers.
• May prepare and file UCC financing statements, Blue Sky and SEC registrations, and public company SEC filings.
• May assist with stock option plan administration, including drafting BOD/shareholder plans, resolutions, agreements, and other state and federal filings.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Minimum of four years relevant experience in Corporate/Finance transactional practices.