Jr. Paralegal – Litigation
Position:
Financial Technology Partners is seeking a Jr. Paralegal to support the firm’s legal team.
Role Description:
As a Paralegal at FT Partners, you will have the opportunity to play a vital role supporting litigation preparation and planning. The Paralegal will also provide assistance in a variety of other functions for the legal department.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist the General Counsel and outside law firm counsel in litigation preparation and management
- Review and analyze documents and communications and prepare summaries, timelines, and presentations based on them
- Manage documentation and filing deadlines
- Participate in legal team and firm meetings
- Conduct legal and non-legal research, fact-finding, and discovery projects
- Assist with special projects from the other members of the legal and operations teams
General Qualifications:
- Demonstrated high achiever with a track record of accomplishment in a variety of areas
- Bachelor’s degree with excellent academic performance at a first tier academic institution
- Able to analyze documents, data, and communications, understand them, and summarize them in clear communications
- Able to understand complex financial transactions
- Well organized and maintains attention to detail – generate excellent and polished work product
- Flexibility and willingness to perform a variety of tasks
- A high level of discretion and confidentiality and a professional demeanor
- React with appropriate urgency to situations and events that require a quick response or turnaround
- U.S. work authorization required. FT Partners will not sponsor applicants for work visas at application or in the future.
Communications Skills:
- Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills, able to prepare clear and concise materials
- Participate effectively in both internal and external meetings
- Maturity and poise to work directly with firm executives
Team Player:
- Team player who can contribute to building a positive team spirit, keeps commitments, inspires the trust of others, and works with integrity
- Performs under pressure amid tight deadlines; can effectively prioritize and plan
- Collaborative across teams and levels, both internally and externally
- Understands coaching for long term development of self and others
Selected transactions include advising:
- Heartland Payments in its $4.5 billion sale to Global Payments (NYSE: GPN)
- Assurance IQ in its $3.5 billion sale to Prudential (NYSE: PRU)
- Mercury Payment in its $2.0 billion sale to Vantiv (NYSE:VNTV)
- SquareTrade in its $1.4 billion sale to Allstate (NYSE:ALL)
- Finicity in its $985 million sale to Mastercard (NYSE: MA)
- Interswitch in its $200 million minority investment led by Visa
- Checkout.com in its $230 million minority investment from Insight, DST, GIC, and others
- CardConnect in its $750 million sale to First Data (NYSE:FDC)
- GreenSky in its $300 million minority investment led by DST, TPG, Wellington Management, and Iconiq
- Instamed in its $500+ million sale to JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM)
- BlueVine in its $102 million minority investment led by ION
- Stone in its $1.4 bn IPO
- FleetOne in its $369mm sale to WEX (NYSE:WEX)
- AvidXchange in its $300 million financing from MasterCard (NYSE:MA), CDPQ, Temasek and Peter Thiel
- Automated Trading Desk in its $680 million sale to Citigroup (NYSE:C)
- Custom House Ltd. in its $370 million sale to Western Union (NYSE:WU)
- Addepar in its $140 million financing from Valor Equity Partners, 8VC and Harald McPike
- Automatic in its $115 million sale to SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI)
- GoCardless in its $75 million minority investment from Adams Street Partners and Google Ventures
Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment:
Financial Technology Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact
recruiting@ftpartners.com.
