Paralegal (FTC)

Paralegal (FTC) London, EC2M

About LPPI

One of the key priorities at LPPI is ensuring that our people work every day in an empowered, supportive, diverse, and inclusive culture. Practically, this means recognising and valuing the uniqueness of every individual in terms of background, experience, beliefs, and circumstances. This starts with the recruitment process, where we partner with agencies that share our common goal and advertise on a variety of job boards to access the broadest spectrum of candidates. And once successful applicants are on board, we trust our people to work in the way that works best for them, which typically involves a mix of office and home working, plus an engagement model to ensure frequent two-way feedback. We are very proud of our culture at LPPI and the benefits it brings to both our people and the business. But don’t just take our word for it! Recently, we invited our entire workforce to describe in three words what is great about us, and they said – our people, flexibility, and collaboration. If you would like to join a company that is inclusive and forward-thinking, please read on.

Role Purpose

To undertake a variety of legal and administrative tasks, supporting the LPPI Legal team to effectively and efficiently provide comprehensive legal support and manage legal risk within LPPI.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducting effective legal research on relevant laws and regulations affecting LPPI, including financial services regulation and the law applicable to local government organisations and presenting the results of that research effectively.
• Drafting, reviewing, and proofreading of legal documents, including simple contracts such as confidentiality agreements and supplier and services agreements.
• Assisting other members of the Legal team with the drafting and review of complex supplier and services agreements, investment transaction documentation, fund formation documentation, investment management agreements, side letters and other documentation relevant, and ancillary to the investment management activities of the business.
• Supporting the efficient resolution of ad hoc legal queries, including drafting of internal legal memos.
• Managing the execution of legal documentation by LPPI signatories, predominantly through DocuSign.
• Taking a lead role with the management of the contract database (ContractSafe) and uploading legal documents.
• Supporting the management and organisation of the legal drive.
• Supporting the effective management of external legal counsel and other service providers, including the efficient processing of invoices, working with LPPI’s Finance and Fund Accounting teams.
• Attending internal meetings, taking notes, and co-ordinating certain legal tasks.
• Updating of legal document templates.
• Developing and maintaining a database of legal know-how and precedents.
• Assisting alongside other members of the Legal team with responding to KYC requests (investment and corporate-related), FOI requests and data subject rights requests (including DSARs) and other data protection-related tasks.
• Additional duties as may be required, which are reasonably commensurate with the role.

Requirements for the Role

• Educated to a Graduate standard, ideally in Law or a similar field. The role could be ideal for an individual working towards a legal qualification through the SQE route and looking to obtain qualifying work experience.
• Demonstrably strong foundation of legal knowledge in contract law and company law.
• Ideally, at least 1 year of experience working in a legal environment with experience and/or demonstrable interest in one or more of fund management, investment management or the wider financial services sector.
• A proactive, self-motivated team player who has the ability, with appropriate supervision, to initiate, plan, manage and progress work activities and projects to ensure they are completed efficiently, on time and to an appropriate standard.
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Effective relationship management skills, including the ability to build positive and productive professional relations with a variety of internal stakeholders and external parties and to appropriately manage expectations.
• Effective research, critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Proven capability in the use of Word for correspondence and report writing. Experience using PowerPoint and working with Adobe and Excel is an advantage.
• Demonstrable understanding of the importance of maintaining accurate, complete and clear records and setting up and using efficient administrative and filing systems.
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity.
• Good conduct that is consistent with the LPPI values – aligned behaviours.

Reasonable adjustments will be made to working arrangements to accommodate a person with a disability who otherwise would be prevented from undertaking the work.