Private Equity Paralegal
Corporate / M&A
US Firm
£38,000 - 43,000
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a paralegal in the corporate and private equity department of a top US firm.
The Firm
The firm are top tier in the US and have been growing their London office. In the past two years they have doubled in size and have attracted partners from Magic Circle and other top US firms.
The Department
The corporate department specialises in Private Equity and mergers & acquisitions and work with some really interesting clients and on high profile deals.
The department is diverse and are really friendly and approachable and it is a great environment to work in. You will join two other paralegals in the department and sit with the associates so are really integrated with the team.
The Role
The paralegal role is varied and will include the usual paralegal duties as well as tasks more akin to a trainee. These may include:
Document management (pre and post completion)
Compiling transaction bibles (hard copy and E bibles)
Conducing due diligence
Company secretarial support (Companies House Filings, drafting board minutes and written resolutions of directors and shareholders)
Verification exercises
Assisting with signings
Data room management
Legal research
The Requirements
Excellent academics are essential and ideally you will have completed the LPC with relevant corporate electives. Some corporate paralegal experience is required, but they are flexible to what type of firm this has been at (US, City or Regional).
This is a permanent paralegal role and will have fantastic prospects for progression for the right paralegal.
However the firm are open to making this a contract role and so welcome future trainees who have secured training contracts to start in September next year or later to apply.
Apply now to this private equity / M&A paralegal role today to find out more.
Lunaria Partners are advertising this paralegal role on behalf of our client. We strive to respond to all applications but due to the volume received, this isn't always possible. If you have not heard from us in 7 days your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are a specialist legal recruitment agency based in central London. We have experience in permanent, contract and temporary recruitment for the legal sector, both law firms and in-house legal teams. We have expertise in paralegal recruitment, legal compliance recruitment, document review recruitment, and lawyer recruitment.
Our team is made up of award winning recruiters who love what they do and who have developed in-depth knowledge of the legal market. We have a wide network of candidates built up over 12 years, and an excellent network of clients and roles.
We’re driven by finding people their happy place. We really care about our clients and candidates, and our values and services are based around this.
For clients we provide extra services to support you to reach your recruitment and talent attraction and retention goals.
For candidates we provide coaching and mentoring to you to reach your potential. We also have created the Lunaria GRANT. We will be reinvesting 10% of our profits into helping level the playing field for candidates.
We also believe in using business to be a force for good.
All of our employees are part of our Lunaria DOES programme where we volunteer in the community to help young and disadvantaged people into work.
We also have a number of policies and procedures in place, from being paperless to banning single use plastic in the office, to help reduce our impact on the planet.
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