In our journey to impact on patients lives, we are looking for a Paralegal (Corporate amp; Contracts) to join our growing Legal team in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Your role will be to assist with corporate housekeeping and contract lifecycle management and other day-to-day matters. As part of the job, you will:
- Maintain and file corporate records, including resolutions, proxies, board of director changes, annual reports, etc
- Assist with planning and logistics for annual shareholder meetings, director and officer questionnaires, related party transactions, corporate compliance calendars
- Assist with the preparation of appropriate draft documents, including agendas, corporate resolutions and meeting minutes for board of director and committee meetings
- Create documents related to new corporate entity formations
- Support in corporate transactions and assist with due diligence efforts and follow-on compliance as needed
- Document management (formatting, facilitating signatures, abstracting, and organizing our corporate legal documents)
- Support in preparing documents and activities related to contracts and corporate restructurings, such as mergers, formations, and dissolutions
- Overseeing the contract lifecycle process, including planning, collaboration, negotiation, execution and archiving
- Support the maintenance of global subsidiary entity activity, global jurisdictional qualifications to do business, and related entity and corporate governance items
- Coordinate the signing process for contracts and other legal documents
- Keep the legal management database up to date (corporate, contracts, IP)
- Ensure proper filing of legal documents - Execute administrative and operational processes for the legal team
- Work cross-functionally across the company (including finance, HR and CEO office) as a liaison for the legal team
Requirements
- Bachelor of laws or US paralegal training
- Proven experience as a paralegal/ contract specialist in a corporate legal department or a law firm
- Full proficiency in English required, French desirable
- Holder of a valid permit to work in Switzerland
- Organizational skills
- Drafting skills
- Eye for detail
- Communication
- Issue spotting and problem solving
- Collaboration
Benefits
- Career opportunities in a fast-growing company with worldwide reputation
- A flexible and friendly working environment with a collaborative atmosphere
- Fantastic office locations in Switzerland
- An exciting company mission that brings together science and technology to directly impact the lives of patients with life threatening illness.
Start: ASAP (or as agreed)
Contract type: permanent full-time
Application process
If you think you fit this position, please send a CV and a cover letter. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.
After an initial screening process, candidates will be invited for remote interviews. Selected candidates will then be invited for personal interviews.