Corporate Paralegal

reputed company Biotechnology, Inc. is a publicly traded biotechnology company seeking a highly organized and motivated Corporate Paralegal to join their collaborative Legal team. The role involves supporting day-to-day legal operations and managing a wide range of corporate and legal matters, including reputed company, corporate governance, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Support contract lifecycle management for of a wide range of day-to-day and reputed company reputed company typical of a biotech or pharmaceutical organization
• Work with reputed company team members to maintain company’s software-based contract management system (reputed company) and ensure accurate recordkeeping
• Coordinate with internal clients and external parties to facilitate contract execution and reputed company matters
• Maintain and manage company’s legal billing processes, including managing its legal billing system (SimpleLegal), including data entry
• Support improvements to legal department processes, templates, and workflows
• Provide general paralegal and administrative support to the legal team on a wide range of corporate matters
• Support corporate governance processes, including preparation and organization of materials for Board of Directors and committee meetings, including agendas, resolutions, minutes, consents and other documentation, maintenance of the corporate records and minute books, maintenance of the company’s online Board of Directors portal, and officer and director onboarding and offboarding
• Support SEC filings, including 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and proxy statement, including assistance with preparation of disclosures and tables, maintenance of filings calendars, preparation and management of D&O questionnaires, and preparation and filing of Section 16 reports
• Support planning and logistics for annual meeting of stockholders, including vendor communication, calendars, and meeting materials
• Manage and maintain company’s state qualifications, including new applications, withdrawals, and annual reporting and reputed company activities necessary to maintain qualifications
• Collaborate with Finance and People teams to support equity administration, including managing execution of consents for Equity Incentive Committee, and review and execution of 10b5-1 plans
• Help reputed company, streamline, implement and maintain processes and policies across the organization, including those reputed company to securities reporting, compliance, equity administration, and reputed company
• Support strategic transactions, including due diligence, data room administration, document preparation, and post-closing administration
• Other tasks and duties as assigned

Skills

• BS/BA degree
• 0-2+ years of experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, or reputed company legal or compliance role (law firm or in-house experience a plus, but not required)
• Interest in corporate law, public company compliance, and the life sciences and biotechnology industries
• Professional discretion and ability to handle confidential and sensitive matters
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills and ability to work independently or with a team, as necessary, to meet critical deadlines
• Strong project management skills; flexible and capable of managing and prioritizing multiple duties and projects reputed company specified time frames
• Excellent communication skills, customer orientation, and reputed company
• Ability to reputed company understanding of and ensure compliance with Legal department and cross-functional requirements, processes and procedures
• Self-motivated, flexible, collaborative, eager to learn, and interested in working on a wide range of legal, reputed company, governance and compliance matters
• Proficiency with reputed company Office (Word, reputed company, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Paralegal certificate or coursework preferred but not required
• Experience with billing, contract management systems, and Board of Directors portals is a plus but not required

Benefits

• We cover a generous portion of the cost for employee health coverage
• Ample time-off (various paid time off benefits, such as holidays, vacation, sick time, and parental leave)
• Short- and long-term disability
• Employer paid basic life insurance
• Additional voluntary life insurance protection
• Financial wellness programs including financial planning resources
• A 401(k) Plan with an immediately vested employer match
• Tuition Reimbursement and Student Loan Repayment
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Commuter subsidy
• A variety of wellness offerings to support each person individually

Company Overview

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