Paralegal

Corporate Paralegal

The Corporate Paralegal will manage entity structure, legal operations, and closing support across the Company's real estate finance platform.

• MUST have in house experience or BIG law experience. Fast pace, high volume.
• Experience supporting real estate, real estate finance, structured finance, private funds or investment management matters
• Reporting to the General Counsel, this is a highly visible role that partners closely with internal deal teams, outside counsel, title companies, and lenders.

Role and Responsibilities

Corporate Organization & Entity Management

• Own the Company’s entity database and organizational charts: form, qualify, maintain, convert, and dissolve borrower, guarantor, holding, joint venture, development, and management entities across multiple jurisdictions, and keep the structure charts current as the portfolio changes.
• Prepare and maintain formation and organizational documents, including certificates of formation, limited liability company agreements, limited partnership agreements, operating agreements, and amendments and restatements.
• Prepare and maintain governance records: board and member consents, resolutions, incumbency and secretary’s certificates, officer and director slates, signature authority matrices, minute books, and ownership ledgers.

Matter Management & Legal Operations

• Own matter intake and the department’s matter tracker.
• Maintain the legal calendar and tickler system for closing dates, milestones, consent deadlines, reporting covenants, renewal dates, and statutory and filing deadlines, and escalate items at risk of slipping.
• Build and maintain the legal document management system and file taxonomy so that any executed document, closing set, or binder can be located on demand.
• Assemble and circulate signature packets, manage execution and notarization logistics, track outstanding signatures to completion, and distribute fully executed sets.
• Prepare and maintain closing checklists and diligence trackers, coordinate deliverables among internal teams, outside counsel, title companies, and counterparties, and drive open items to closed.
• Manage outside counsel administratively: engagement letters, conflicts waivers, billing guidelines, invoice review and coding, accrual reporting, and coordination with accounting on payment.

Financing, Joint Ventures, Acquisitions, and Dispositions

• Support internal and external real estate counsel on financings, acquisitions, and dispositions
• Order, review, and summarize UCC, judgment, lien, litigation, and bankruptcy searches, and prepare and file UCC-1 financing statements, amendments, and terminations.
• Review title commitments, surveys, and organizational document exception items, and track resolution of requirements through closing.
• Compile post-closing binders and confirm that all recordings, filings, and originals are received and filed.

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