Job Description
Ares is seeking a highly organized, quick-thinking and proactive Paralegal to join the Ares Legal team, specifically, the Investment Legal team in Los Angeles covering Ares’ Opportunistic Credit, Private Equity and U.S. Liquid Credit investment strategies (the “OPEL Legal Team”). The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment requiring mental agility and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and shifting priorities while maintaining a high level of attention to detail. The Paralegal will provide day-to-day support to the OPEL Legal Team with respect to a variety of recurring tasks and discrete projects.
Ares is a flat, flexible and dynamic organization. The firm fosters a culture of collaboration, entrepreneurialism, integrity and partnership, both internally amongst colleagues and externally amongst clients and other stakeholders. The Ares team operates with a growth mindset, communicates transparently and cultivates a high-performance and results-oriented environment.
Primary Functions and ResponsibilitiesThe Paralegal will be charged with facilitating the efficient functioning of the OPEL Legal team to enable the timely delivery of high-quality legal services to investment professionals and other functional groups (finance/accounting, investor relations, compliance, etc.) in Los Angeles, New York and Europe.
Critical tasks include:
- Review and advise on non-disclosure agreement (“NDA”) terms, both receiving-side and sharing-side.
- Prepare and negotiate joinders to NDAs.
- Coordinate workflow with external counsel for high volume of NDAs.
- Review and negotiate non-reliance letters and access letters.
- Assist with consulting agreement workflow.
- Collaborate with Compliance team to clear conflicts on investment opportunities.
- Assist with corporate, regulatory and other filings.
- Assist with improving standard forms / precedents and processes.
- Assist with knowledge management relating to a variety of data relevant to legal workflows.
- Assist with entity management process, including entity formations, dissolutions, governmental filings and regulatory compliance.
- Assist with director and officer documentation at entities, including resolutions and incumbency certificates.
- Validate and enrich entity information in the firmwide entity database.
- Prepare entity structure charts.
- Review and allocate entity maintenance invoices.
- Assist with new entity and fund onboarding and account openings.
- Ensure our legal records are highly organized and complete so documents are easily accessible to users when needed.
- Assist with inbound Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and other legal/regulatory information requests.
Education/Certification
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Paralegal certificate from an ABA-accredited program or equivalent qualification required.
- Notary public preferred.
Experience
- Minimum of 2 years of experience functioning as a paralegal.
- Substantive experience working within a regulated industry, at a law firm or in an in-house legal department is required. A background in asset management (private equity and/or private credit, specifically) is valued.
Requirements
- Skilled with Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Office Suite and other MS Office software products.
- Experience with GEMS or other entity data management or analytics software is a plus.
- Experience with DealCloud or other deal pipeline management software is a plus.
- Experience with Asana or other workflow management software is a plus.
- Outstanding organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong time-management and prioritization skills. Able to successfully manage multiple priorities and competing demands.
- Thrives working autonomously in a dynamic, collaborative and fast-paced environment—demonstrating flexibility, resiliency and proactivity.
- Exhibits excellent judgment—knows when to elevate issues and ask questions.
- Eager to learn, improve and develop new legal-related skills.
- Builds on successes. Owns mistakes and seeks to learn from them.
- Attention to detail. Pride of authorship.
- A visual/design aesthetic appreciated to help elevate the team’s work product.
- Appreciation for process design, implementation and improvement.
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Compensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.
$90,000 - $105,000
The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.
Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
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Ares Management Corporation Culver City, California, USA Office
800 Corporate Pointe , Culver City, CA, United States, 90230
Ares Management Corporation Los Angeles, California, USA Office
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90067
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