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UK Job Description
Job Purpose
Assisting and supporting the Senior Sigma Law Specialist and Sigma Lawyer on a range of banking and finance matters and other ad hoc legal tasks across the team.
Note: this job description is generic and therefore, is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities.
The Firm
Reed Smith is a global law firm with more than 1,700 lawyers in 30 offices throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States.
Operating as one global partnership, we represent leading international businesses from FTSE 100 corporations to mid-market and emerging enterprises; advising clients on cross border transactions, international commercial disputes and regulation. We specialise in industries including financial services, life sciences, health care, energy and natural resources, entertainment and media, shipping and real estate.
We all share a common culture, with core values supporting the firm’s commitment to add value, achieve excellence, and promote professional development. London is our largest office with approximately 700 people, including over 350 fee earners across the full range of commercial practice areas. Consistent with the firm’s strategy, the office has grown significantly over the past five years. Key to this growth has been our ability to successfully integrate new hires into our business and give them a platform to flourish. We place a huge significance on listening to our people and incorporating their ideas wherever possible.
The Role
Responsibilities Will Include, But Are Not Limited To
- Working closely with Associates and Partners across the Banking and Finance team.
- Conducting the funds DD and related activities.
- Creating, managing virtual data rooms and supporting deals by drafting documentation.
- Conducting Companies House filing and search reports including winding up search reports.
- Drafting and updating CP checklists and ancillary documents such as corporate authorisations.
- Preparing Bibles and conducting the live deals in Closings.
- Working and collaborating with the legal engineering team on current technology.
- Checking legal documents for quality, consistency and content.
- Identifying opportunities to improve legal processes and articulating the case for making the change.
- Assisting with ad hoc administrative and legal tasks under instruction.
- Ensure efficient practices and provide feedback to managers on where improvements can be made.
- Works flexibly and actively seeks opportunities to learn new legal processes.
- All adhoc banking and fund finance work.
Performance Improvement
- Provide feedback and identify opportunities for improvement of processes or the use of technology.
- As a team, work with your manager to design initiatives that will drive measurable improvements in quality, speed and efficiency.
- Welcomes mistakes or errors as opportunities for improving business processes.
Experience
- Ideally 12 months plus experience as a paralegal in a banking and finance team.
- Experience of building credibility and trust with a diverse and challenging business stakeholder group.
Skills And Attributes
- Enjoys working as a part of a team and adapts working styles to fostering a spirit of team working.
- Comfortable with change and embraces opportunities to work faster and smarter.
- Case/project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality of client service.
- Fluent in standard MS Office applications and ability to quickly master new software.
- Resilience under pressure and motivated by accountability and the desire to meet or exceed objectives and deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build relationships.
- Comfortable and capable of working proactively in a global organization.
- Reliable, meets deadlines and anticipates problems.
- Takes personal ownership of self-improvement.
- Positive “can-do” attitude, whether working individually or as part of a team.
Development
- Participate in team meetings.
- Attend internal training and external training as and when required.
- Contribute freely and creatively to business improvement projects.
Education
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Reed Smith's success depends heavily on the effective utilization of qualified people, regardless of their race, ancestry, religion, colour, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability, veteran's status, or any characteristic protected by law. As a firm, we adhere to and promote equal employment opportunity for all.
We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions. If you have a disability or a long-term health condition and require adjustments to be made for you within the recruitment process, please contact a member of the Recruitment team. For more information on our approach to diversity and inclusion please visit our website . 
