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Job Title
Paralegal - Real Estate Finance (6 Month FTC)
Location
London
Description
The Department
Our specialist team of real estate finance lawyers advises on how to
structure financing, either to provide maximum security for lenders,
or maximum certainty for borrowers. We work with major banks and other
leading property lenders, on a senior and mezzanine basis, as well as
advising some of the industry's highest profile property investment
and development borrowers.
We are here to facilitate deals through the introduction of people,
property and finance, and find practical commercial solutions to
issues along the way. We are helped by our industry-wide experience of
property finance: commercial, residential, leisure and healthcare.
Financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds,
institutional funds, developers and investors rely on our advice
across all aspects of transactions including:
Bilateral, syndicated, club, structured, senior and mezzanine finance
Bridging finance
Investment and development financings
Debt restructuring and re-financings
Security enforcements and receiverships
Our banking and finance team is supported by strong corporate, real
estate, tax and regulatory offerings.
Duties and Responsibilities
The main duties include but are not limited to:
Preparation and management of conditions, precedent checking,
during deals to completion.
Bibling promptly after deal close.
Registering security at Companies House promptly.
Preparation of legal documents such as board resolutions and
director's certificates. Proofreading and updating documents, using
initiative to flag queries.
Liaising with clients in a timely, professional and courteous manner.
File opening and closing, retainer letters and conflict checks.
Typing and amending notes, letters, presentations and other
documents as required, using Microsoft Office, Laser forms and the DMS.
Managing virtual data sites, including the initial set up and
uploading of documents for internal sites and monitoring and keeping
the team informed of updates to external data sites.
Managing and checking for fund transfers, completing funds
requests, preparing funds flow and reconciling ledgers.
Preparing and sending e-mails to include attaching documents,
printing and filing of incoming emails, attachments and confirmations.
Photocopying and filing.
To work under pressure to meet deadlines with a flexible attitude
during urgent transactions.
To maintain confidentiality in respect of those matters which are
commercially sensitive or secret and only share them with colleagues
and others on a need to know basis who are themselves bound by an
obligation of confidentiality.
Providing support as required by the fee-earners and working with
other PAs and other members of the Department.
Skills/Experience
Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
Ability to effectively plan and manage a consistently busy
workload under own steam with minimal direct supervision.
Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritise
requests (from a variety of sources) and to respond quickly and
positively to changes in priorities.
Excellent research skills.
Effective spoken and written communication skills, and able to
communicate effectively with people at all levels.
Ability to balance longer-term project work whilst also
maintaining a busy daily workload.
Ability to successfully 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 in order to collaborate with the
team to meet the needs of the business.
Pro-active, takes initiative and is able to move work forward.
Proficiency in MS Packages including Microsoft Word, Excel,
Outlook and Internet Explorer. Experience with Document Management
Systems is an advantage.
Previous relevant experience or a genuine interest in this area of
law is desirable.
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.