Legal Assistant - WOFSEY, ROSEN, KWESKIN & KURIANSKY, LLP - Stamford, CT
(2025-12)
- Prepare, revise, format and finalize a wide variety of legal documents
- Open new client and new matter files according to procedure
- Accurately enter attorney time into time keeping program
- Work closely with accounting department colleagues to prepare client billing
- Establish and maintain paper and electronic client files per current firm polices
Corporate Paralegal - GREENWOOD SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE LLC - New York, NY
(2024-08 - 2025-10)
- Prepare and file incorporation documents, dissolutions, qualifications, and consents of manager and shareholders
- Obtain good standing certificates and lien/UCC searches according to deal closing specifications
- Prepare and update structure charts
- Initial review of NDAs
- File Corporate Transparency Act beneficial ownership information
Corporate/Trust and Estates Paralegal - EUGENIA M. VECCHIO & ASSOCIATES PLLC - Harrison, NY
(2023-07 - 2024-02)
- Prepare paperwork to claim life insurance and retirement accounts
- Assist with the preparation of estates from the date of the client's death by gathering all information about assets and debts to file tax Form 706
Corporate Paralegal - SILGAN HOLDINGS INC. - Stamford, CT
(2017-11 - 2023-07)
- Prepare and maintain all Directors' and Officers' Questionnaires
- Assist with the review and distribution of Silgan's annual report and proxy statement
- Maintain and keep current all corporate minute books for approximately 50 plus domestic and foreign subsidiaries
- Liaise with Silgan's US and international colleagues, law firms, etc. on day-to-day business operations
- Review of income and balance sheets for certain European and Brazil subsidiaries for inconsistent reporting of revenue, net loss, and profit highlighting differences if any for further action
- Coordinate the finalization of European financials to file in accordance with each country's local law
- Assist with preparation and filing EEO-1 government report
- Assist General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, and other internal departments with ad hoc projects (data room, annual report filings, entity formations, dissolutions, withdrawals, review of legal invoices, KYC, etc.)
- Established close working partnerships with international colleagues
- Worked to streamline workflows
- Focused on continuous quality improvement
Corporate/Real Estate Paralegal - WEXFORD CAPITAL LP - Greenwich, CT
(2012-01 - 2017-11)
- Prepare incorporation documents, qualifications, dissolutions, withdrawals, consents of manager and shareholders
- Prepare and update structure charts
- Prepare and maintain loan documentation for real estate transactions
- Prepare Form 144s, 13D and 13G, Section 16 filings (Form 4 and 5)
- Review and respond to compliance requirements and other KYC requests
- Assist with general administrative duties (e.g., annual report filing for 50 plus US entities, filing of documents paper and electronic, etc.)
Real Estate Legal Assistant - RAO AND RAO LLC
- In charge of day-to-day maintenance of real estate files
- Organized legal documents (mortgage, title, lease. etc.) for US entities to ready property for potential divestment
Commercial Real Estate Paralegal - IVEY BARNUM AND O'MARA
- Prepared and maintained all loan documentation for multiple commercial real estate transactions
- Prepared and monitored closing checklists for all commercial real estate transactions
- Review of title and/or deed, legal description and survey for accuracy
- Prepared closing binders for all commercial real estate loan transactions
Corporate Paralegal - STROOCK, STROOCK & LAVAN LLP
- Spearheaded organizational project for a major client
- Assisted with filing Form 3s, Form 4s, and Schedule 13Ds
- Assisted with general administrative duties
Corporate Paralegal - ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P
- Prepared private client files for initial investment in certain mutual funds
- Drafted investment management agreements, amendments, futures documents, and brokerage memoranda
- Assisted with filing of Form 700s
Corporate Paralegal - TORYS LLP
- Drafted banking, and merger and acquisition transaction documents
- Prepared incorporation documents, board and stockholder minutes, written consents, and resolutions
- Coordinated and filed UCC's; Review of UCC searches
- Assisted with preparation of Form 3s, Form 4s, Form 5s, and other security documents
