Corporate Paralegal

Job Description Gunster seeks a full-time Corporate Paralegal for its West Palm Beach office. Responsibilities include the formation, foreign qualification, conversion, merger, maintenance, and dissolution of business entities; drafting governance and tax documents (IRS Forms SS-4, 8832, and 2553); preparing and filing fictitious business name registrations; preparing and filing business tax registrations with the Florida Department of Revenue; preparing, filing, and maintaining municipal and county Business Tax Receipts; preparing responses to audit letter requests; drafting authorizing resolutions, partnership actions, and officer's/manager's certificates; researching state corporate statutes and securities laws; obtaining SEC EDGAR filer codes; drafting and filing SEC Form D and state blue sky notices; filing SEC Section 16 reports; and performing due diligence activities, including ordering and reviewing lien and litigation searches. Candidates must have at least five years of relevant law firm experience. Florida Registered Paralegal certification is preferred. Experience with international business entity formation and maintenance, as well as Spanish-to-English translation skills, is preferred. Gunster, Florida’s law firm for leaders, provides full-service legal counsel to leading organizations and individuals from its 13 offices statewide. Established in 1925, the firm has expanded, diversified and evolved, but always with a singular focus: Florida and its clients’ stake in it. A magnet for business-savvy attorneys who embrace collaboration for the greatest advantage of clients, Gunster’s growth has not been at the expense of personalized service but because of it. The firm serves clients from its offices in Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Palm Beach, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa, Vero Beach, and its headquarters in West Palm Beach. With more than 320 attorneys and consultants, and 300 committed support staff, Gunster is ranked among the top 200 largest law firms by the National Law Journal and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Diverse Law Firms by Law360. More information about its practices, industries, offices and news is available at Company Description Gunster, Florida’s law firm for leaders, provides full-service legal counsel to leading organizations and individuals from its 13 offices statewide. Established in 1925, the firm has expanded, diversified and evolved, but always with a singular focus: Florida and its clients’ stake in it. A magnet for business-savvy attorneys who embrace collaboration for the greatest advantage of clients, Gunster’s growth has not been at the expense of personalized service but because of it. The firm serves clients from its offices in Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Palm Beach, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa, Vero Beach, and its headquarters in West Palm Beach. With more than 320 attorneys and consultants, and 300 committed support staff, Gunster is ranked among the top 200 largest law firms by the National Law Journal and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Diverse Law Firms by Law360. More information about its practices, industries, offices and news is available at #J-18808-Ljbffr