Corporate Paralegal

Corporate Paralegal

Department: Legal

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York City, NY

Compensation: $90,000 - $120,000 / year

The Corporate Paralegal will manage entity structure, legal operations, and closing support across the Company's real estate finance platform. Reporting to the General Counsel, this is a highly visible role that partners closely with internal deal teams, outside counsel, title companies, and lenders. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented paralegal with deep transactional real estate experience, strong organizational instincts, and a proven track record of managing high-volume matters and closings.

Dwight is seeking a team player who has a "no job too big or too small" attitude. A proactive thinker with a can-do mentality who is ambitious and intuitive will prove successful. Dwight is looking for an individual who takes pride in their work and flourishes in a fast-paced environment. Must have the ability to manage time wisely, follow up, and communicate status of projects.

Our ideal candidate will take direction from the Executive Management team well, offer creative and prompt solutions to issues, and provide meticulous attention to detail.

• Own the Company's entity database and organizational charts: form, qualify, maintain, convert, and dissolve borrower, guarantor, holding, joint venture, development, and management entities across multiple jurisdictions, and keep the structure charts current as the portfolio changes.
• Prepare and maintain formation and organizational documents, including certificates of formation, limited liability company agreements, limited partnership agreements, operating agreements, and amendments and restatements.
• Prepare and maintain governance records: board and member consents, resolutions, incumbency and secretary's certificates, officer and director slates, signature authority matrices, minute books, and ownership ledgers.

• Own matter intake and the department's matter tracker: open, categorize, assign, and close matters, and maintain status, responsible attorney, counter party, outside counsel, key dates, and next action for every open item.
• Maintain the legal calendar and tickler system for closing dates, milestones, consent deadlines, reporting covenants, renewal dates, and statutory and filing deadlines, and elevate items at risk of slipping.
• Build and maintain the legal document management system and file taxonomy so that any executed document, closing set, or binder can be located on demand.
• Assemble and circulate signature packets, manage execution and notarization logistics, track outstanding signatures to completion, and distribute fully executed sets.
• Prepare and maintain closing checklists and diligence trackers, coordinate deliverables among internal teams, outside counsel, title companies, and counter parties, and drive open items to closed.
• Manage outside counsel administratively: engagement letters, conflicts waivers, billing guidelines, invoice review and coding, accrual reporting, and coordination with accounting on payment.
• Identify recurring bottlenecks and build the templates, forms, checklists, and process improvements that reduce turnaround time as deal volume grows.

• Support internal and external real estate counsel on financings, acquisitions, and dispositions
• Order, review, and summarize UCC, judgment, lien, litigation, and bankruptcy searches, and prepare and file UCC-1 financing statements, amendments, and terminations.
• Review title commitments, surveys, and organizational document exception items, and track resolution of requirements through…