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About the Role
The Investment Funds Senior Paralegal is an integral part of Latham’s Legal Professional and Paralegal team, supporting private investment fund formations and closings. This role involves coordinating documentation, investor admissions, and related fund requirements, as well as working on secondary transactions, transfer documentation, and consent processes.
Responsibilities
- Support private investment fund formations and initial and subsequent fund closings, including formation and organizational documentation, fund structure charts, investor admission documentation, signatures and approvals, closing notices, and related closing requirements
- Support GP-led secondary transactions, including continuation funds, investor elections and rollover processes, LPAC and other consent processes, transfer documentation, diligence, and closing and post-closing requirements
- Support LP-led secondary transactions, including transfer documentation, buyer and seller coordination, ROFR and consent processes, AML/KYC requirements, and closing and post-closing activities
- Gain exposure to a broad range of fund restructurings and liquidity solutions, including tender offers, stapled transactions, preferred equity transactions, strip sales, and annex fund formations
- Coordinate key aspects of secondary transactions and fund restructurings, including virtual data rooms, fund and investor documentation, portfolio company and third-party consents, lender notifications, and other transaction requirements
- Work closely with attorneys, clients, investors, counterparties, fund administrators, and other transaction participants to support fund formation, closing, and secondary transaction processes
- Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains
Requirements
- Demonstrate deep substantive, procedural, technical, and practice-specific expertise, with the ability to apply that expertise to the most complex paralegal work with minimal direction and navigate novel or challenging issues within areas of specialization
- Exhibit advanced proficiency with relevant legal technology, applications, research tools, and firm systems, with the ability to select and apply appropriate tools to sophisticated work requirements and adapt to relevant new technologies
- Possess strong attention to detail and quality-control skills, with the ability to consistently produce accurate, high-quality work across multiple complex workstreams with minimal need for supervision, correction, or revision
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In-office
Experience Level
- MidSenior
- A minimum of six (6) years of experience as a paralegal, preferably in a law firm setting
Education Level
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- A paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program or signed declaration, if located in a California office
Salary/Compensations
- USD $140,000.00 - USD $170,000.00 /Yr.
Benefits
- Healthcare, life and disability insurance
- A generous 401k plan
- At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
- Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
- Professional development programs
- Employee discounts
- Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff
About the Company
- Latham & Watkins is one of the world’s leading global law firms advising the businesses and institutions that drive the global economy.
- We are the market leaders in major financial and business centers around the world.
- Our investment in people, commitment to innovation, and focus on the future empower you to build an incredible career and thrive as an exceptional professional in a supportive culture.
- If you aspire to be the best, and work with the best, this is where you belong.
Equal Opportunity
- Latham & Watkins is an equal opportunity employer.
- The Firm prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status (including veterans of the Vietnam era), gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable statute.