Private Equity Paralegal - Lightrock LLP - London
(2025-01)
- Own the commercial documentation function as the sole legal resource. Act as first point of entry for all legal and contractual requests into the business, assessing complexity, urgency and risk, resolving matters directly or escalating with a formed recommendation.
- Manage the full lifecycle of NDAs, engagement letters, letters of interest, term sheets, offer letters, service agreements and data processing agreements, from intake through negotiation to execution.
- Apply escalation judgment on non-standard mark-ups, assessing whether a counterparty position can be accepted, negotiated to a workable fallback, or requires escalation to senior counsel.
- Negotiate directly with counterparty legal teams and external counsel, including where a counterparty presents its own form and the mark-up must be resolved rather than accepted.
- Coordinate with internal compliance and governance stakeholders on approval workflows, ensuring documentation satisfies internal sign-off requirements before execution.
- Develop and maintain contract templates, agreed fallback positions and an internal playbook, holding consistency of clause positions across the portfolio and reducing turnaround time across the business.
- Own documentation tracking and obligation management, maintaining centralised registers with expiry monitoring, post signature compliance and audit ready records.
- Run the contract review process across M&A transactions from initiation to execution, covering due diligence, signing coordination and post-closing tracking.
- Lead board and Investment Committee governance across three funds, drafting minutes and briefing senior stakeholders on documentation status and risk.
- Assisting senior lawyers in relation to a project relating to inter-group reorganisation and being involved with all aspects of the project including attending meetings with external offshore lawyers.
- Leading project relating to company internal policies. Attending quarterly meetings with our General Counsel and our external compliance advisory firm.
- Managing entity management for the firm's UK companies, preparing and submitting all Companies House filings and ensuring deadlines are met.
Legal Consultant / Contract Manager (FTC) (Real Estate Investment) - Arcadis - London
(2024-11 - 2025-01)
- Managed the full commercial contracting lifecycle for major real estate investment transactions within a global professional services environment, from initiation through to close.
- Acted as senior point of contact for clients and as the internal coordination point across deal, legal and operational teams, managing documentation flow under aggressive transaction timetables.
- Identified and communicated contractual risk to legal stakeholders, resolving positions on complex multi-party agreements within established governance and approval frameworks.
Private Equity Paralegal (Real Estate Investment) - Henderson Park Capital Partners - London
(2023-11 - 2024-04)
- First point of contact between investment teams and Legal for contract management and internal requests.
- Negotiated NDAs and engagement letters across various jurisdictions (Europe and US); coordinated counterparties to execution with minimal turnaround time.
- Led refinancing workstream for a large commercial asset; progressed ≈50 legal documents to execution.
- Ran AML/KYC for funds and institutional investors; liaised directly with lenders on compliance requests.
- Managed disposal of development assets; liaised with agents to finalise documentation and close actions.
- Managed LP transfers end-to-end, coordinating investors, administrators and multiple third-party stakeholders.
- Produced weekly legal reports for managing directors; organised and maintained complete closing sets.
Capital Markets Paralegal - RBC Capital Markets - London
(2023-06 - 2023-11)
- Supported investment banking teams on multi-million advisory mandates; drafted and negotiated transaction documents across the deal lifecycle.
- Advised wealth management on private placement agreements; drafted and reviewed reliance/hold-harmless letters across multi-bank processes.
- Reviewed NDAs across renewable/energy transition, healthcare, securitization and fund finance.
- Developed familiarity with trading documentation (ISDA/GMRA/brokerage) and risk concepts through cross-team collaboration and training.
- Liaised with senior investment managers, directors and external counsel; participated in negotiations and diligence calls.
Private Equity Paralegal - Ardian - London and Paris
(2022-11 - 2023-06)
- Coordinated board approvals and drafted board minutes for investment procedures for five of Ardian's biggest funds across London and Paris; supported company secretarial filing.
- Worked with investment teams across London and Paris to manage and coordinate weekly IC meetings.
- Prepared investment proposal requests and supported general partner reporting.
- Reviewed investment proposals for legal/procedural compliance; maintained investment records and supported transaction execution.
Venture Capital Paralegal - Anthemis Group - London and New York
(2021-09 - 2022-10)
- Led all compliance workflows, including KYC/AML processes and oversight of regulatory filings.
- Managed onboarding of HNW institutional investors and carried interest allocations for multiple funds totaling $320 million, including drafting and reviewing S431 tax election documents to ensure compliance and accuracy.
- Prepared complex regulatory submissions, including leading the completion of an MFSA authorisation form for a portfolio company, liaising directly with regulators and third parties.
- Drafted and negotiated NDAs, supplier agreements, side letters, and investor agreements, and reviewed Limited Partnership Agreements for risk and compliance alignment.
- Supported fund formation and SPV transactions by drafting board minutes, SPV agreements, deeds of adherence, subscription agreements, and other transaction documentation.
- Reviewed 30 LPAs across multiple closed funds to assess change of control provisions during a group reorganisation.
- Maintained institutional knowledge for multiple global private funds, researched market and legal developments, and updated internal know-how resources.
- Led the company's compliance monitoring programme, delivering staff training, conducting internal audits, and managing quarterly meetings with senior legal counsel and external advisors.
- Managed Companies House filings for multiple entities, ensuring all statutory requirements were met.
Paralegal (Financial Litigation) - Peters & Peters - London
(2021-04 - 2021-09)
(FTC)
Paralegal (Financial Markets) - Financial Conduct Authority - London
(2021-02 - 2021-04)
(FTC)
Paralegal (Banking & Finance, London and Qatar) - Addleshaw Goddard LLP - London
(2018-01 - 2020-12)
