Position: Corporate Paralegal, UCC
Compensation: $80,000 - $120,000
Location: Midtown, Hybrid
Ranking: AmLaw100
Position Overview
The Global Transportation Finance Paralegal will provide substantive support on corporate, finance, and transportation finance transactions from document preparation through closing and post-closing. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, comfortable working on time-sensitive transactions, and experienced supporting sophisticated finance or asset-based lending matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist attorneys with all aspects of corporate, finance, and Global Transportation Finance transactions.
- Prepare, proofread, amend, organize, and distribute transaction documents.
- Create and update closing checklists, closing indices, execution documents, and master closing bibles.
- Manage post-closing activities and related documentation.
- Draft and lodge/register charges, aircraft mortgages, ship mortgages, and railcar mortgages.
- Draft corporate authorities and ancillary transaction documents.
- Coordinate with opposing counsel regarding corporate authorization and ancillary matters.
- Conduct limited due diligence related to corporate powers and authority.
- Work with government authorities, including ship registries and the International Registry.
- Review and confirm satisfaction of conditions precedent.
- Communicate with clients regarding conditions precedent and closing deliverables.
- Prepare instructions to counsel for various transactions under attorney supervision.
- Assist with consolidating and updating internal know-how and transaction resources.
- Prepare and review Uniform Commercial Code filings and related documentation.
- Arrange filing of UCC documentation.
- Make International Registry filings and obtain equipment and user searches from the International Registry.
- Prepare and manage electronic and hard-copy closing bibles and post-closing documentation.
- Distribute original documents and closing sets to relevant transaction parties.
- Assist with creating, organizing, and managing physical and virtual data rooms.
- Analyze, organize, and reconcile transaction records and documents.
- Review and approve certain vendor invoices pre- and post-closing to support timely client billing.
- Perform other transaction-related tasks as assigned by attorneys.
- Maintain an annual target of approximately 1,500 billable hours.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 7+ years of experience in commercial lending, asset-based financing, secured lending, corporate transactions, or related transactional paralegal work preferred.
- Familiarity with UCC filings strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of the International Registry is a plus.
- Experience supporting complex closings, transaction checklists, execution documents, and post-closing binders preferred.