Paralegal

Job ID

175170

Posted

10-Jul-2024

Service line

Advisory Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Legal

Location(s)

Madrid - Madrid, Comunidad de - Spain

The Paralegal IA&R EMEA provides legal and strategic advice to CBRE’s Investment Accounting & Reporting (“IA&R”) business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”). The individual plays a key role in developing and sustaining legal risk management initiatives for IA&R across the region while furthering the Group’s commercial goals.

This role is a high visibility position that requires assisting the EMEA legal team with coordination across multiple jurisdictions and continuous engagement with various levels of the Group’s personnel across EMEA (with a significant focus on Luxembourg).

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and negotiate non-disclosure agreements.

• Assist the EMEA legal team in the preparation of all types of contracts related to IA&R services in EMEA with a significant focus on Luxembourg (including outsourcing agreements, intercompany agreements, central administration agreements, corporate services agreements, master services agreements, statement of work and selected non-routine, complex local, pan-European).

• Assist the EMEA legal team in collecting signatures and executing legal documents (including letters, NDAs, all types of agreements and statement of work).

• Act as an archiving/filing coordinator, ensuring proper storage of legal documents and organizing physical filing when necessary.

• Assist the EMEA legal and onboarding team to track all types of contracts and include all documentation in the contract management tool (Onspring).

• Ensure that all external lawyers hired by IA&R EMEA are logged in the Legal Tracker (litigation tracking platform).

• Assist the EMEA legal team with ad hoc requests.

• Initiate and implement ad hoc projects as instructed by the EMEA legal team, and proactively identify new initiatives or projects beneficial for the legal team and for the business colleagues.

• Liaise with the external legal partners when required.

Required profile :

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business Administration or a related field.

• At least 3 years’ experience within a similar role.

• Fluent in English (written and spoken); proficiency in French is a plus.

• Experience with legal and corporate terminology and documentation.

• Knowledge of commercial contract law (Luxembourg and EMEA). Experience in the PSF sector and in-depth knowledge of investment funds is a plus.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with people of all levels of seniority.

• Diligent and pro-active.

• Ability to prioritise and act on own initiative.

• Excellent organisational skills.

• A flexible approach to work.

• Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate tasks efficiently ensuring all deadlines are met.

• Accurate and exceptional attention to detail.

• A positive attitude towards routine tasks.

• Confident and assertive where required.

• Sociable and outgoing.

• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.

• Good numeracy skill.

• Good IT skills (Word, Excel, MS Outlook, PowerPoint). Previous experience with document management systems is advantageous.

What do we offer?

• Be part of an international team

• Permanent contract

• Competitive salary and bonus

• Employee benefits

• Career opportunities and growth

• Hybrid way of working

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)