The Department

We work with innovative companies, challengers and disrupters to navigate the problems and opportunities they encounter throughout their business lifecycle.

As a full-service corporate group, we represent companies, founders, management teams, wealth owners, venture capital funds, investors, and universities. We guide them through the start-up process, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, exits and listings on the public markets, giving insightful board-level and corporate governance advice borne from our deep and broad experience.

We help our clients navigate not just the present, but the future; anticipating regulatory change, the impact of evolving technologies and the pressures of a dynamic landscape of culture, governance and innovation. We work closely with teams across Mishcon allowing us to support our clients with strategic advice and market leading solutions, including in areas such as cyber risk, ESG and reputation management.

From emerging companies to market-leading business, our clients compete in fast moving and innovative industries including software, deeptech, biotech, digital communications, life sciences, healthtech and financial services. We also advise some of the leading innovators and operators in more traditional sectors such as real estate, hospitality, retail and sport.

Our Emerging Companies and Venture Capital teams have extensive experience in advising businesses at all stages of their life cycle (from early stage investment to exit), as well as acting for venture capitalists, angel investors, syndicates and institutional investors (including investment funds specialising in seed capital, venture capital and growth equity). The teams also advise on transactions with universities and research organisations.

Duties and Responsibilities

The main duties include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting with due diligence, transaction management, preparing ancillary documents, managing signing and documents lists, and other transactional support work.
• Independently running electronic signature collection processes as part of large corporate transactions.
• Preparing daily to-do-lists and action points for transactional teams.
• Ensuring that all records, both paper and electronic, are filed and maintained.
• Attending client meetings where required. Recording attendance notes and typing up detailed note for file.
• Liaising with clients and colleagues in a timely, professional, and courteous manner.
• Liaising with other departments as and when required.
• Maintaining client contact details on CRM (Interaction) database.
• Providing administrative support including photocopying, scanning, and organising documents for submission.
• Assisting with the preparation of monthly bills, including reviewing billing guides, updating narratives and drafting billing emails/letters and supporting the team with debt management.
• Being an integral part of a high-performance and collaborative team.

Skills/Experience

• Previous paralegal experience would be beneficial.
• Strong academic record, LPC qualified (or equivalent) preferable.
• Dynamic and driven with an ability to work independently with initiative, discretion and confidentiality.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload and prioritise deadlines.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with partners/ key stakeholders.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Pro-active and takes initiative.
• Proficiency in MS Packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Experience with Document Management Systems is an advantage.
• Experience with Docusign is an advantage.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy, our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including acommitment to be a net zero carbon business, also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose, a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management, MDR Cyber, MDR Discover, MDR Mayfair(in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx. Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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