Senior Transactional Paralegal

Senior Transactional Paralegal, Commercial Lending Join a lean, high-ownership Legal, Compliance, and Counterparty Governance team where your commercial lending transaction experience will directly create speed, clarity, and capacity for a growing real estate credit business. This is a hands-on paralegal role for someone who has been “around the block” on loan transactions, knows how to keep closings moving, and can serve as a trusted legal operations partner to attorneys, business stakeholders, title companies, counsel, and transaction teams. The Opportunity This is a full-time, in-office role based in Manhattan, supporting a collaborative New York team that is operating with startup-level pace and ownership. You will work closely with the Legal, Compliance, and Counterparty Governance team and loan transaction stakeholders across origination, closing, post-closing, servicing, asset management, entity management, and legal operations. The ideal candidate is a senior transactional paralegal with substantial commercial loan experience—especially in debt, credit, real estate finance, or related high-volume transaction environments. You should be comfortable taking initiative, managing details independently, asking sharp questions, and helping a fast-moving team build reliable legal processes without needing every step handed to you. What You Will Own Commercial Loan Transaction Support Support commercial loan transactions from origination through closing. Order and review UCC, tax lien, judgment, and litigation searches. Order and review title commitments and surveys. Coordinate clearance of liens, encumbrances, and title objections with title companies, outside counsel, and internal stakeholders. Assist with drafting, revising, proofreading, formatting, and redlining transaction documents. Work with documents such as promissory notes, mortgages or deeds of trust, loan agreements, guaranties, and UCC financing statements. Closings, Post-Closing, and Loan Servicing Coordinate closing logistics and help keep transaction workstreams organized and on track. Prepare closing binders, document sets, and related closing materials. Oversee recording of mortgages and UCC-1 financing statements. Track and manage post-closing conditions, follow-ups, and deliverables. Assist with loan servicing and asset management matters, including UCC continuation filings, lien releases, assignments, subordinations, estoppels, and loan modifications. Entity, Corporate, and Legal Operations Support Manage legal entity registrations and renewals. Help ensure company and client entities remain in good standing. Maintain company records, Legal/Compliance/Counterparty Governance files and folders, corporate structure charts, and form libraries. Coordinate signature requests, including wet-ink signatures, electronic signatures through DocuSign, and notarizations. Manage law firm onboarding processes and support intake, review, tracking, and approvals for legal bills. Intake and log service of process for litigation matters and other corporate or asset-level notices. Participate in meetings, actively listen, and take professional, accurate notes. Support legal team projects, research assignments, administrative workflows, and organizational initiatives as needed. What Makes You a Strong Fit 5+ years of paralegal experience in a law firm, financial institution, and/or in-house legal department. Substantial experience supporting commercial loan transactions. Strong familiarity with UCC searches and filings, title review and clearance, loan documentation, closings, and post-closing matters. Corporate and transactional practice experience, ideally with exposure to commercial lending, real estate finance, debt, credit, or other complex transaction work. Experience managing legal entities, corporate recordkeeping, registrations, renewals, and good-standing requirements. Strong writing, research, communication, critical thinking, organizational, and time-management skills. Ability to work independently and efficiently while collaborating closely with legal and business stakeholders. High attention to detail and comfort working on documents where accuracy, signature blocks, deadlines, and process discipline matter. Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Adobe Pro. Nice-to-Haves Experience supporting loan servicing or asset management matters, including UCC continuations, lien releases, assignments, subordinations, estoppels, and loan modifications. Litigation support exposure, especially around service of process or corporate/asset-level notices. Experience with DocuSign, monday.com, Confluence, Jira, and/or G Suite. Interest in helping a team refine templates, workflows, and legal operations processes as the business scales. The Candidate Who Will Thrive Here You may be a great fit if you are the kind of paralegal attorneys trust because you know what needs to happen next. You are not looking for a narrow, highly siloed seat—you want to be close to the business, close to the transactions, and useful across multiple legal workstreams. You should enjoy working in a collaborative, in-person environment where people move quickly, ask questions, and rely on each other. This role is especially well suited for someone who likes teaching others what they know, creating order out of moving pieces, and bringing practical commercial lending experience to a team that values ownership and sound judgment. Location and Work Environment Based full-time in the company’s Manhattan office. Direct, in-person collaboration with the Legal, Compliance, and Counterparty Governance team and loan transaction stakeholders. Occasional travel may be required for closings, title company coordination, or company events. Apply Compensation The expected total compensation range is USD 100,000–150,000 Yearly. #J-18808-Ljbffr