Paralegal - Corporate Services

With its desire to humanize the legal experience, this firm is looking for a paralegal to join its Corporate Services department. The paralegal will perform a variety of legal and administrative tasks related to clients' commercial, tax, and real estate transactions. This person will work closely with the lawyers in the transactional department and will work regularly with the firm's clients.

The legal technician's main responsibilities will be to:
Annual Maintenance Component:
- Prepare corporate documentation and make the required filings with public registers, including the annual update of corporate clients, as well as the new disclosure obligations of the Registraire des entreprises du Québec (REQ) and Corporations Canada;
- Organize and coordinate files while respecting production deadlines;
- Draft and follow up on correspondence with in-house lawyers, clients and accountants involved in the files;
- Conduct minute book reviews and produce corporate summaries;
- Update minute books, including preparing annual resolutions and resolutions related to dividend declarations;
- Drafting corporate documents relating to changes in any documentation and/or information contained in a minute book or relating to its regularization;
- Perform data entries in the GlobalAct minute book management system.

Transactional component:
- Provide support to the Corporate Services team by taking care of the necessary filings with public registries, including procedures related to incorporations, registrations, amalgamations, corrections, amendments, updates, continuations, liquidations and dissolutions of provincial and federal corporations, as well as, in some cases, extra-provincial corporations. Assist paralegals and lawyers in transactional, corporate, tax and real estate transactions;
- Drafting corporate documents relating to transactions involving the purchase or sale of businesses and/or assets, tax planning, real estate transactions and/or financings;
- Update public registers and minute books following transactions, including data entry into the GlobalAct system;
- Other related tasks.

Required experience and knowledge
- Hold a Diploma of Collegial Studies (DEC) in paralegal technology;
- Have more than five years of professional experience as a paralegal in a relevant field;
- Very good knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in French and English;
- Knowledge of GlobalAct for minute book management (an asset).

Required skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, team spirit and sense of collaboration;
- Ability to work under pressure and manage priorities;
- Ability to work in a team and to carry out the work with meticulousness and rigor;
- Organizational skills and strong document management skills.

What is offered to you
- Advantageous and competitive compensation;
- Comprehensive benefits plan;
- Telemedicine service available at all times;
- Group retirement plan (RRSP) with employer contribution;
- Schedule of 35 hours per week;
- Work-life balance;
- Generous vacation policy;
- Hybrid work mode;
- And even more.

Would you like to join a dynamic and professional team that offers a friendly work environment focused on human capital? Give us the privilege of getting to know you!