Senior Paralegal

Job Summary :

To perform the Governance & facilitate Legal activities of the company

Key Responsibilities :

• Legal and Contractual
• Coordinate legal due diligence for prospective investee companies
• Review preliminary drafts of standard transactional documents and revise as necessary
• Advise on ways to streamline processes to help close transactions more effectively
• Respond as directed by the supervising attorney to regulatory and audit inquiries
• Conduct advanced factual research and basic legal research, as requested
• Participate in meetings with the VC team and act as a SME for mandate, legal, contractual, jurisdiction and structural matters
• Work with supervising attorney and business partners to ensure that materials are received in a timely manner, for distribution to management, and assist with review of materials for successful presentation to boards and committees
• Work with the supervising attorney and business partners, to ensure that committee activities are set forth accurately in committee and company charters
• KYC & Background checks
• Manage / coordinate KYC on target companies and founders
• Manage all communication with KYC consultants (contract renewal, raising of PRs, reviewing of invoices)
• Ensure documentation of closure of red flags identified in the KYC reports
• Coordinate with SAO industrial security or other entities for conducting the background checks
• Portfolio Governance (Post funding)
• Advise on all legal. contractual and other regulatory matters related to portfolio
• Review all SH resolutions received from the portfolio companies
• Organize trainings related to Governance and Regulatory matters for the founders and portfolio companies (BoD governance, Companies law etc)
• Review and advise on compliance of Portfolio companies with the signed agreements. Any non-compliance observations should be highlighted to the VC team

When requested for a peculiar matter, review Board materials of Portfolio companies Boards and provide comments to the Board members in advance of the Board meeting

Draft emails and other communications to the Board and committees

Organize staff training on legal and regulatory matters

Managerial Duties

As this portfolio grows this position may be required to supervise an analyst with the legal background.

Requirements

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