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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.
Skills and Attributes
- Working closely with Associates and Partners across the Banking and Finance team.
- Conducting the funds DD and related activities.
- Managing virtual data rooms and supporting deals by drafting documentation.
- Conducting Companies House filing and search reports.
- Drafting and updating CP checklists and ancillary documents such as corporate authorisations.
- Preparing Bibles and conducting the live deals in Closings
- Working with legal 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 corporate banking 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
Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.
Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:
- Certified as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces® for Development 2025 by Great Place to Work®
- Certified as a Great Place to Work® 2025 in the US, UK, India, and Philippines
- For the tenth consecutive year, in 2025, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top global services provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing) and as an Alternative Legal Service Provider in Asia-Pacific
- Newsweek named Elevate one of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces in Professional Services’ for 2025 and previously awarded it the highest rating in the ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity’ and ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for 2024’ lists
- For the fourth year in a row, Elevate’s integrated law firm is designated as a top law firm in Commercial Litigation in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Best Law Firms
- Elevate named a top ALSP in Asia by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business in 2024
- Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016
- Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact
