
Legal Assistant – Corporate Finance | Toronto ON
In this Legal Assistant position, you will be supporting a Lawyer within the Corporate Commercial/ Financial Services practice group who works primarily in the areas of insolvency and corporate/commercial law, focusing on reorganizations, restructurings and liquidations with emphasis in the areas of secured financing, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy and insolvency. The right candidate will be a self-motivated individual who enjoys being busy. Being able to work both independently and on a team is important in this role, and a high attention to detail is required.
Summary of Responsibilities:
- Prepare, draft, edit and finalize closing agendas and all transactional documents relating to lending and corporate transactions
- Organize and track delivery of closing documents
- Draft renewal agreements for lending transactions
- Prepare annual resolutions
- Compile Record Books
- Communicate professionally with all internal and external clients
- Proofread and check documents
- Diarize and track deadlines
- Produce the highest quality of work
- Handle a high volume of daily administrative tasks
- Manage duties related to accounting
- Accountable for all work assigned
- Arrange meetings
- Calendar management
- Takes initiative
- Confidential
Core Skills & Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years’ previous experience as a Legal Assistant in Financial Services or Corporate Law
- Successful completion of a related post-secondary Legal Assistant or Law Clerk program
- Microsoft 365 suite of applications, including experience with creating, numbering, styling and rebuilding documents
- Knowledge of Workshare Compare or a similar document comparison program
- Familiarity with iManage and DocuSign
- Ability to problem solve
- Good judgement and decision making
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Organized, resourceful and detailed
- Handle time pressure situations and stress of multiple demands
- Overtime, as required