Job Description

A North Dallas law firm is seeking a senior level, Advanced Corporate Paralegal with at least ten years of corporate paralegal experience. This vital role will support multiple attorneys with the opportunity to assist the transaction team with complex mergers and acquisitions, commercial lending, and commercial real estate closings. This paralegal will leverage expertise and strong detail-oriented work style to ensure accuracy and quality of work for the team. Ideally, this candidate will work independently with minimal supervision other than coordination with the supervising attorney.

Job Duties:

• Support attorneys and clients through all phases of corporate, lending, and real estate transactions
• Closing mergers and acquisitions, loan transactions, private equity investments, and commercial real estate transactions
• Drafting transaction documents, schedules and exhibits, and facilitating complex transaction closings
• Drafting corporate agreements, including company agreements, limited partnership agreements, and corporate resolutions and minutes
• Manage transactional closings, draft closing checklists, draft and assemble schedules, and organize closing and post-closing documents, filings and recordings
• Facilitate document procurement through direct contact with clients, closing agents, title companies, and lending institutions
• Assist attorneys with drafting and preparing loan documents from approved form sets and credit approval memorandum
• Draft, review and file corporate transactional documents including state forms and filings in multiple states, entity formations, resolutions, consents, agreements, certificates, merger documents, licensing approvals, and regulatory filings
• Coordinate with title company and lender to facilitate loan closings
• Conduct due diligence, lien searches and summaries, complete UCC filings and order certified documents
• Develop and maintain positive work relationships with clients and staff to ensure accurate organization of facts and information
• Support other needs of the law firm to include maintaining electronic client files and data rooms

Position Requirements

• Paralegal certificate required (equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a certificate)
• Bachelor’s degree preferred (equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
• Experience in legal drafting and corporate transactions
• Extensive prior closing work experience with complex M&A transactions and commercial loan transactions

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