Hill Dickinson
Job title:
Paralegal – Corporate
Company
Hill Dickinson
Job description
Location : Manchester Job Advert
Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Newcastle, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong. With more than 950 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.
Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.
Job role: Paralegal
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
As the winner of two Working Families’ awards for ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Recruitment 2022’ and ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Team: Corporate – Manchester
Location: Manchester
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here are some examples of what we offer:
- 25 days’ annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible, agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment
Role overview
We are looking for a Paralegal to join our established and very highly regarded Corporate Team in Manchester.
The team engage in detailed work with a strong client base. Regularly working against and alongside City based and national firms, the team is a leading corporate practice in Manchester, with a key focus on M&A (mergers and acquisitions) and private equity transactions.
The National Corporate Team has a presence in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, London and Birmingham and provides advice in relation to:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity
- Equity capital markets
- Business sales
- Joint ventures
- Corporate reorganisations
Key responsibilities:
- Assisting in the preparation of contracts, appointments, warranties, and related documents
- Supporting on mergers or acquisitions or disposal transactions for corporate clients
- Supporting on due diligence exercises and managing data rooms.
- Assisting with the preparation of supporting bundles.
- Transaction support including proof reading and preparing ancillary documents.
- Communicate by email, letter and telephone with clients and other parties’ and their legal advisors.
- Legal Research
- Opportunities for early exposure to clients.
- Company secretarial duties
- Companies House filings
- Locating documents and creating bundles
- Assisting with bills
- Generally assisting associates, senior associates, and partners with their workload
- Providing administrative support to all users of the service as required
What are we looking for:
Essential
- Demonstrates understanding of client needs/expectations
- The ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- The ability to adhere to guidelines and procedures
- The ability to develop client relationships
- The ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent service delivery
Desirable
- Experience in contract and other commercial law principles
- Ambitions to pursue a career as a solicitor in the longer term
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.
Values
Trust – Respect – Innovation – Collaboration
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Hours Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
Department Corporate
Job Type Full time
Contract Type Permanent
Salary Dependent on experience
Expected salary
Location
Manchester
Job date
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:48:05 GMT
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