Corporate Paralegal (Aurora (IL), United States)

The Paralegal plays a key role in supporting the Americas Legal team across a broad range of corporate, governance, transactional, and litigation-related activities. This position is ideal for a detail-oriented legal professional who enjoys working independently, managing complex information, and partnering with attorneys, outside counsel, and cross-functional teams.

This is a high-visibility role with meaningful impact on corporate governance, M&A activity, compliance, and legal operations across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

Responsibilities:

• Manage corporate governance activities across the Americas, including maintaining corporate records, preparing resolutions, and supporting internal mergers and recapitalization projects.
• Oversee Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting and handle state registrations for all group companies.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and corporate reorganizations in the U.S., including document preparation and transaction coordination.
• Assist with employment and litigation matters in the U.S. and Canada, including pre-litigation support, litigation management, and maintaining litigation hold records.
• Manage service-of-process communications, legal mail, and litigation reporting.
• Collaborate with Senior Counsel, outside counsel, and internal teams to ensure timely, accurate execution of legal tasks.

More about you:

• Paralegal certificate or 6+ years of equivalent experience; bachelor's degree preferred
• 6+ years of paralegal experience in corporate governance, transactions, or litigation support
• Strong drafting, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with attorneys, outside counsel, and internal teams
• Professional communication skills and sound judgment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and database management; experience with contract management software preferred
• Conversational Spanish, French, or Portuguese a plus

A minimum of 200Mb/sec download and 10Mb/sec upload speed internet connectivity is required to support any remote/hybrid employee functionality at Sonova

Don't meet all the criteria? If you're willing to go all in and learn we'd love to hear from you!


We are looking forward to receiving your application via our online job application platform. For this position only direct applications will be considered. Sonova does not recruit via app, telegram, carrier pigeon or any other format that does not include speaking with an actual human. If you are offered a job without speaking with someone please contact


What we offer :

• Medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Health Savings, Health Reimbursement, Flexible Spending/Dependent Care Accounts
• TeleHealth options
• 401k plan with company match*
• Company paid life/ad&d insurance
  • Additional supplemental life/ad&d coverage available
• Company paid Short/Long-Term Disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • STD LTD Buy-ups available
• Accident/Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Legal/ID Theft Assistance
• PTO (or sick and vacation time), floating Diversity Day, & paid holidays*
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Employee Assistance Program (24/7 mental health support hotline, 5 company paid counseling sessions and more)
• Robust Internal Career Growth opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement
• Hearing aid discount for employees and family
• Internal social recognition platform
• D&I focused: D&I council and employee resource groups

*Plan rules/offerings dependent upon group Company/location.

This role's pay range is between: $77,000 - $95,000. This role is also bonus eligible.


Sonova is an equal opportunity employer.

We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate's ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.

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