FIG Paralegal - 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

We have an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal to join our FIG team in Bristol on a 6 month fixed term contract.

Your workload will principally involve assistance with one major client but there may also be opportunities to work on other matters within our varied group.

The practice

Our highly profitable FIG practice, part of the Business Transactions Group (BTG), spans 4 core service lines: Investment Funds; Payments; Consumer and Small Business Finance; and Financial Regulation.

We advise financial institutions, corporates and service providers on all aspects of the financial services environment in which they operate. We advise across the financial services market and our clients include clearing, commercial, private and investment banks, securities firms, asset and investment managers, e-money and payment institutions, and service providers. Our work ranges from pure advisory work through product launches to outsourcings and M&A.

We are known for our technical excellence, but more so for our solutions-led approach which makes us a good fit for assisting clients bringing innovative products to market. Much of our practice is international in nature, driven through the increasing OC International reach.

The team

"The team is well balanced and well led. Their technical and commercial expertise is complemented by a culture of approachability, openness and business friendly professionalism." - Chambers & Partners

Our FIG team comprises 10 partners, 1 legal director and 25 lawyers with 5 trainee solicitors, 2 solicitor apprentice and 5 paralegals. The team operates from two offices, in London and Bristol.

The role

We act for a market leading private equity fund secondaries manager. We undertake secondary funds transactions for the client, which involves the purchase of interests in existing private equity funds. The client buys these interests on a portfolio basis, typically between 25 and 75 interests at a time. Each purchase of an interest requires completion of a significant amount of legal documentation, including transfer agreements and investor questionnaires. We have developed an online platform to help assist with the management of the transfer process, but we need legal input to negotiate the transfer agreements and to complete the investor questionnaires. Many of the transfers involve US fund managers and lawyers.

In this role you will be:

• Working with lawyers representing the sellers and fund managers of the interests being transferred to agree transfer documentation.
• Completing investor questionnaires.
• Liaising with our client and its offshore administrators in relation to the above.
• Managing the transfer process, including tracking the progress of each document and facilitating the completion of the transfer (and the payment for the interest).

Skills and experience

Previous experience working as a paralegal would be advantageous but not a pre-requisite. Most importantly, you need to be someone who is highly organised, commercially-minded, a team worker and able to put yourself in the shoes of the client. The paralegals who currently undertake this work spend most of their time in OC offices and regularly work outside normal office hours, for which we pay overtime.

The successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate good oral and written communication skills;
• Have experience of prioritising competing commitments and working to deadlines; and
• Demonstrate a client-orientated approach, both internally and externally.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Patrick Fermin Ryan on patrick.ferminryan@osborneclarke.com

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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