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About the Role
We are seeking a Paralegal to join our Impact Finance team and provide dedicated support across its practice. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with clients in this sector and develop your skills and experience.
Responsibilities
- Perform paralegal duties as delegated by fee earners.
- Conduct legal research and summarize legal documents.
- Support fee earners on transactional work in the debt finance space, including project management, drafting ancillary documents, liaising with local counsel, and managing the signing process.
- Review, summarize, and monitor relevant regulatory updates.
- Support fee earners on matter management.
- Assist fee earners in knowledge and business development, including research and preparing documentation and presentations.
- Attend client meetings and produce meeting minutes.
- Develop and maintain the ChaSE Finance team's legal precedents, knowhow, and resource bank.
- Contribute to the creation of new knowhow materials and ensure existing resources are up-to-date.
- Participate in team meetings and sector groups, coordinating meetings and circulating information.
- Provide high-quality legal service to clients.
- Display effective time management and career development.
- Attend internal and external training as required.
- Stay updated with developments in law and practice.
- Engage with the firm’s internal forums and programmes.
- Be adaptable and flexible to meet client needs.
Requirements
- Graduate with experience as a paralegal and/or a Law Degree, or graduate-level legal qualification (such as the Graduate Diploma in Law or equivalent).
- Postgraduate level legal qualification (such as the Legal Practice Course or the SQE qualifications) is desirable but not essential.
- Keen interest in Banking.
- At least one year's experience supporting banking transactions.
- Experience organizing signings, drafting ancillary documents, and managing local counsel.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to build, maintain, and nurture relationships.
- Client-centric approach.
- Collaborative approach to teamwork.
- Results-focused mentality.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Logical thinking to reach solutions.
- Willingness to work in unfamiliar areas.
- Proactive and comfortable taking responsibility for workstreams.
- Technically excellent, commercially minded.
- Great people and project management skills.
- Genuine interest in the work the firm does.
- Values that reflect the firm's values.
- Inspired by working in a firm with a strong social purpose.
Skills
- Legal research
- Summarizing legal documents
- Project management
- Drafting ancillary documents
- Liaising with local counsel
- Managing signing process
- Regulatory update review
- Matter management
- Knowledge and business development support
- Client meeting attendance
- Meeting minute production
- Legal precedent development
- Knowhow and resource bank maintenance
- New knowhow material creation
- Team meeting participation
- Sector group participation
- Time management
- Career development
- Banking
- Attention to detail
- Relationship building
- Client-centric approach
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Technical excellence
- Commercial awareness
- People management
- Project management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid Working
- Part-time options available
Experience Level
- Graduate level
- At least one year's experience supporting banking transactions
Education Level
- Law Degree or equivalent
- Graduate Diploma in Law or equivalent
- Legal Practice Course desirable
- SQE qualifications desirable
Benefits
- Impact-Driven Purpose
- Climate Programme
- Championing Inclusion
- Flexible and Hybrid Working
- Green pensions
- IVF support
- Private healthcare
About the Company
- Align profit with social purpose to create lasting positive impact for our people, communities, and planet.
- Reduce environmental impact and drive a just transition to net zero through our Climate Programme.
- Foster a diverse, inclusive culture where creativity and innovation thrive.