12 month FTC

Firm introduction

Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm, providing clients with commercially aware legal advice, whenever and wherever they need it. We have over 1,600 people situated in key business and financial centres across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

We understand that our firm is equal only to the strengths of our people and place great emphasis on recruiting and retaining staff who meet our high standards. Our philosophy for international growth has been to build practices around local teams who understand the culture, business and languages of the countries and regions in which we operate. In doing so, we believe that we have succeeded in developing a closely knit and cohesive network that meets local business needs as part of a global service.

Our business services groups provide integrated support for our global operations. The firm is organised in line with our clients' requirements into key practice areas and sector groups. Our sector focus allows us to better appreciate the environment in which our clients operate and to work with them to achieve their objectives. Our client base includes leading financial institutions and a significant number of the current FTSE 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies.

Our focus on a small number of sectors means we are able to understand and respond to our clients' needs. Our industry sectors are: Asset Management & Investment Funds, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Life Sciences and Telecoms, Media & Technology (TMT). We also focus on the E&I market, in particular through our international projects and construction teams. We have a track record for innovation and delivering value to clients through new ways of working. The core practice areas, from which we draw our sector teams, are: corporate, dispute resolution, employment, pensions & employee benefits, EU, competition & regulatory, financial markets, information, communications & technology, intellectual property, projects, real estate and tax.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Working in a team of 2-3 people on a Project which involves producing and administering compliance-like documents for a private equity client.
• Assisting in drafting compliance documents (checklists) which summarise more complex legal documents for multiple closed-ended private funds (Partnership agreements and side letters) into more user/business-friendly, compliance-like documents
• Project management, file management, organising data, reporting, administering the compliance programme

Person specification

Education/experience

• Law graduate with a first or upper second class degree or equivalent.
• Previous paralegal experience or other relevant legal work experience (preferred)
• Understanding of closed-ended private funds would be helpful but is not essential.

Skills required

• Strong drafting/writing skills
• Excellent attention to detail / accuracy
• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical skills (documents need to be ordered to be logical and user-friendly)
• Strong time-management skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Be a good team-player
• Good communication skills
• Strong technology skills