Paralegal - Corporate & Finance Legal

Role Summary

Location: East Hanover, NJ. The Novartis Corporate & Finance Legal team is seeking a new Paralegal to provide key legal support activities, requiring formal education, training and experience. This individual will have knowledge and expertise regarding the legal system and procedural law which qualify them to do some work of a legal nature and will work under the close supervision of a qualified legal counsel and senior paralegal.

Responsibilities

• Independently perform administrative tasks following guidelines and in defined timeframes
• Provide paralegal support for corporate governance, corporate structure, transactional, corporate reporting and other general corporate matters to Legal Counsel and Senior Paralegal
• Generating contracts and other legal documents (including Powers of Attorney, board resolutions, corporate certificates, among others) utilizing Novartis templates or reviewing and editing third party contracts and documents, and finalizing such documents under the supervision of Novartis legal counsel
• Compile and maintain various lists pertaining to corporate governance, corporate structure, transactional, corporate reporting and other general corporate matters
• Support related to corporate governance, corporate structure, transactional, corporate reporting and other general corporate matters

Qualifications

• Required: 3+ years of relevant paralegal experience is required
• Preferred: Extensive experience and facility with technological applications (e.g. MS Office, legal AI) is strongly preferred
• Preferred: Strong knowledge and experience in providing paralegal support for governance, corporate structure, transactional, corporate reporting and other general corporate matters is preferred
• Preferred: Understanding of Delaware and/or New York corporation law, particularly in relation to corporate governance matters is preferred
• Preferred: Experience providing paralegal support for corporate transactions is preferred
• Required: Associates degree and/or paralegal certificate is required. Bachelors degree preferred.