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About the Role
Cooley is seeking a Paralegal to join the General Corporate team, assisting lawyers in all stages of corporate transactions and ensuring compliance with business regulations.
Responsibilities
- Provide paralegal support to partners, associates, and other professional staff.
- Conduct factual research, analyze documents, and prepare detailed corporate profiles.
- Perform legal and non-legal research using various tools.
- Advise UK corporate entities on Companies House forms and filings.
- Assist with the formation and dissolution of corporate entities.
- Assist with private placements.
- Prepare and proofread legal documents for accuracy and consistency.
- Provide support with virtual data rooms, including supervision.
- Assist with due diligence, including document review, analysis, and report drafting.
- Assist with the disclosure process, including document review and preparation of disclosure bundles.
- Provide company secretarial support, including Companies House searches and drafting board minutes.
- Assist at signing and completion meetings, coordinate closing documents, and prepare conditions precedents.
- Organize and update precedent and transaction bibles/sets, and create electronic bibles.
- Collate and organize closing sets.
- Liaise with outside agencies, including organizing notaries and service of process.
- Seek to improve workflow and maintain department files.
Requirements
- University degree or equivalent.
- Relevant corporate transactional experience.
- Working knowledge of MS Office packages.
- Ability to navigate various electronic databases.
- Strong research skills and proficiency in using various research tools, including Westlaw UK, Lexis Library and Practical Law.
- Ability to work overtime and travel as required.
- Flexibility to adjust hours to meet operating needs.
- Legal billing experience and knowledge of Intapp Time (DTE) desirable.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work assignments.
- Possess excellent written, communication and proofreading skills with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to function in a professional and polite manner.
- Proactive, reliable, committed, punctual, motivated, and enthusiastic.
- Ability to drive ideas forward and be innovative.
- Service delivery focused with ability to recognize pressure points and offer assistance.
- Confident and demonstrates the ability to command respect, gain confidence of lawyers and other staff.
- Ability to cope under pressure, appraise impact of actions, demonstrate sound judgment and accept accountability.
- Ability to embrace organizational change and champion as needed.
- Ability to deal with confidential situations with tact, diplomacy and discretion.
Skills
- MS Office
- Electronic databases
- Westlaw UK
- Lexis Library
- Practical Law
- Companies House Direct
- Perfect Information
- Intapp Time (DTE)
- Research
- Communication
- Proofreading
- Attention to detail
- Teamwork
- Independent work
- Organization
- Prioritization
- Delegation
- Professionalism
- Proactivity
- Reliability
- Commitment
- Punctuality
- Motivation
- Enthusiasm
- Innovation
- Service delivery
- Judgment
- Accountability
- Adaptability to change
- Discretion
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Relevant corporate transactional experience
Education Level
- University degree or equivalent
Benefits
- Enhanced family leave
- Health and dental insurance
- Group income protection
- Life assurance
- Pension
- Fertility benefits
- Wellness programs
- Employee discounts
- Fitness and nutrition allowance
About the Company
- Cooley is a law firm dedicated to making recruitment practices and candidate interviews inclusive and accessible.
Equal Opportunity
- Cooley strives to create an inclusive and rewarding environment. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. The Firm does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. This policy governs all aspects of employment. Cooley (UK) LLP is dedicated to making recruitment practices and candidate interviews inclusive and accessible. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for candidates with medical conditions, disabilities, or neurodivergence.