Leading American law firm are looking for a paralegal with a minimum 12 months’ experience in corporate work to join their expanding team and assist with a range of M&A, banking, finance, funds and capital markets work. You must have excellent academics and very strong client skills. They role will be assisting Partners and Senior Associates on a wide variety of corporate transactional work for both UK and international clients. The role will include:

• Attending departmental meetings and contributes to exchanges of information about know-how and workload
• Assisting with anti-money laundering checks on potential clients, drafting engagement letters and opening new files
• Assisting with due diligence on corporate/banking transactions; establishing and operating online data rooms; ordering and indexing relevant documentation and reviewing and summarising the key terms of such documentation
• Assisting with drafting and high-level review of transactional documents under supervision
• Dealing with the incorporation and structuring of new companies
• Attending meetings with clients and taking detailed notes
• Registrations and filings at Companies House
• Dealing with commercial contracts

An exceptional environment and a fantastic opportunity in a dynamic and progressive law firm to gain quality experience for the successful paralegal. It is essential that you have already some experience as a corporate paralegal (an absolute minimum of 12 months) and have confident communication skills and excellent academics. Collegiate, team-orientated environment. Fantastic opportunity for an ambitious corporate paralegal.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.