Job description

The Senior Paralegal (Strategy, Governance, Risk & Compliance) is responsible for performing governance functions and facilitating legal activities within the organization, particularly supporting venture capital and portfolio governance operations. The role involves coordinating legal due diligence for prospective investee companies, reviewing preliminary drafts of standard transactional documents, revising legal documentation, and advising on process improvements to streamline transaction closures. The position requires responding to regulatory and audit inquiries under the direction of the supervising attorney, conducting advanced factual research and basic legal research, and participating in meetings with the VC team as a subject matter expert for mandate, legal, contractual, jurisdictional, and structural matters. The Senior Paralegal collaborates with supervising attorneys and business partners to ensure timely receipt and distribution of materials for management and assists in preparing presentations for boards and committees while ensuring committee activities are accurately documented in company charters. The role also includes managing KYC processes for target companies and founders, coordinating with KYC consultants, managing contract renewals, raising purchase requests, reviewing invoices, documenting closure of red flags, and coordinating background checks with industrial security or related entities. Post-funding portfolio governance responsibilities include advising on legal, contractual, and regulatory matters, reviewing shareholder resolutions, organizing governance and regulatory training for founders and portfolio companies, ensuring compliance with signed agreements, identifying non-compliance issues, reviewing board materials, and providing comments to board members prior to meetings. The role further involves coordinating Wa’ed Board and committee activities including preparing annual calendars, organizing meetings, preparing agendas, tracking submissions, performing quality reviews, ensuring timely submission of board materials, reviewing board minutes, drafting minutes of meetings, following up on action items, saving board packs, and drafting communications to board members. Additionally, the Senior Paralegal acts as a subject matter expert on governance documentation including Shareholder Mandate, Articles of Association, Delegation of Authority, and conflict of interest management, coordinating with governance risk and compliance specialists, ensuring documentation control, maintaining auditable filing systems, managing legally enforceable documents in fire-safe storage, ensuring data classification and data protection compliance, and organizing staff training on legal and regulatory matters. The role may also involve supervising legal analysts as the portfolio grows.