Major American law firm are looking for a leveraged finance paralegal to join their London office and assist with all phases of corporate and banking transactions and form an important part of the team, working alongside partners and attorneys. The focus is to perform all responsibilities with a commitment to providing a first-class service to the Firm’s clients.

Responsibilities include:

• Assist in transaction management throughout the life-cycle of a deal.
• Draft, edit and maintain necessary checklists, organisational charts and spreadsheets.
• Review and edit transaction documents for sense, consistency, cross reference accuracy, facts, calculations and typographical errors.
• Prepare, update, assemble and distribute transaction documents to clients and other counsels.
• Assist in drafting and reviewing corporate authorisations and other conditions precedent documentation.
• Assist with due diligence matters.
• Draft due diligence memorandum, call logs, fact back up charts and transfers circle ups.
• Carry out various company registry searches and other factual research.
• Prepare and maintain signing/closing checklists.
• Maintain document management workspace.
• Prepare signature packs and compile executed documents.
• Prepare closing sets and bound volumes.

It is essential that you have substantial paralegal experience within a leveraged finance team from another major law firm – unfortunately you will not be considered if you don’t have leveraged finance experience. You must also have high attention to detail, the ability to prioritise work and manage time effectively to meet deadlines.

Fantastic opportunity for an experienced leveraged finance paralegal to gain top quality experience in a leading firm. Exceptional benefits and a salary circa £60,000 (they may pay more than this depending on experience).

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.