Job Title: Paralegal

Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 depending on experience

Location: Central London

One of our clients, a financial services firm, are looking for an ambitious paralegal to join their London team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a paralegal to go in-house and move beyond traditional law firm work and build a career in special situations, restructuring, and insolvency. The firm offers early responsibility, direct exposure to distressed and complex matters, and a legal / commercial role.

Key Responsibilities:

Case Support

• Assisting with the day‑to‑day administration of advisory mandates and corporate insolvency cases, including administrations, and liquidations.
• Prepare and file statutory notices, reports, and correspondence under supervision.
• Maintain accurate case files, checklists, and records in line with regulatory and internal requirements.
• Support the preparation of creditor reports, decision procedure documentation, and progress updates.

Investigations & Asset Realisation

• Assist with initial fact‑finding, gathering books and records, and reviewing financial information.
• Support investigations into director conduct, antecedent transactions, and asset tracing.
• Help with the realisation of assets, liaising with agents, valuers, and solicitors as required.

Stakeholder Interaction

• Communicate with creditors, directors, employees, and other stakeholders, providing updates and responding to routine queries.
• Support senior team in preparing for meetings, interviews, and calls.

Team Support & Development

• Work closely with the senior team, supporting them on complex tasks and learning from their experience.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment and demonstrate a willingness to take on new responsibilities as skills develop.

The successful paralegal gain hand on involvement in live cases, stakeholder interaction, and experience across contentious and non-contentious restructuring, investigations, asset recovery, and formal insolvency. The firm is looking for motivated candidates, ideally with insolvency experience, who want a more dynamic, commercially exposed career outside of a law firm.

Ideally, you will have circa 12 months’ experience as a paralegal in either insolvency, litigation or general commercial work. In addition, excellent problem-solving skills and a confident communicator are also essential.

Fantastic opportunity for a paralegal who is looking for something slightly different.

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.