We have partnered with Global FinTech Company that is hiring a paralegal (commercial contracts focused) to support the growing legal organization. They operate a state-of-the-art Capital Markets Technology and offer solutions for trading, hedging, funding, and risk management. The company's financial software supports clients from global banks, large asset managers, and Fortune 500 companies to Local Banks, energy utilities, and medium-sized hedge funds.
Voted on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work and operating from all over the world, this company is at the forefront of innovation and supported by an amazing legal organization. This is a chance to gain great mentorship and work on a team that offers collaboration, inclusivity, and a dynamic work environment.
Responsibilities:
- Draft contracts according to playbooks and the company's standard forms.
- Prepare and review client contract amendments and SOW
- Correspondence regarding contract matters and coordinating distribution of documents to counterparties such as clients, suppliers, etc.
- Create issues tables to assist with the negotiation of contracts.
- Coordinating internal signature process.
- File management; including daily filing and organization.
- Proofreading of English language contracts.
- Ad hoc legal research as needed on corporate topics and organization of research files and memoranda.
- Assisting with the engagement and management of external legal counsel.
- Filing legal matters and data/records management.
- Management of lists of ongoing matters in the Americas and organizational support to the Americas General Counsel.
- Coordination of meetings and general administrative duties.
- Working directly with Business Development colleagues
Qualifications:
- At least 3+ years experience as a paralegal with responsibility for contract administration and management matters.
- Paralegal certification (e.g. NFPA, NALA) is a plus.
- Ability to master commercial proposals and extensive proofreading experience.
- Excellent MS Word and data management skills.
- Familiarity with drafting aspects of software license agreements, amendments and statements of work (including detailed commercial exhibits and provisions) is a plus.
- Previous work experience with a software or technology company, or with a law firm department providing intellectual property law and/or technology law services, is desirable.
If you have any questions you can reach me at:
Emma.sousa@larsonmaddox.com
646-253-0229