Back to jobs

Paralegal

Strassen, Luxembourg

A family office, active in retail, real estate, private equity and investment funds, is looking for a paralegal. The Luxembourg office forms part of an international advisory office (family office) providing tax, legal and financial services, as well as services in the field of asset and wealth management. The human-sized organisation is characterised by a high level of professionalism and integrity. Quality and service are key values.

Job description

Reporting to the Legal Manager of the Luxembourg organisation, you will enjoy the opportunity to be involved in the corporate housekeeping of Luxembourg-based companies.

Main tasks include:

  • Participating in the set-up of corporate structures (holding / financing / investment companies)
  • Support corporate housekeeping matters for group companies: drafting corporate documents (e.g. board minutes) and contracts
  • Preparation of board meetings, drafting of minutes and follow-up of action points
  • In charge of all company secretarial duties (e.g. update of RCS records, update of beneficial owner registers)
  • Handling the day-to-day legal operations of the corporate entities of the group
  • Conducting legal research
  • Provide administrative and organisational support to the legal team
  • Liaising with colleagues inside and outside Luxembourg, civil-law notaries and lawyers
  • Taking over work from colleagues at busy times or in the event of sickness/holidays.
  • Review completeness and accuracy of the AML/CFT KYC documents for each new client and existing clients for ongoing review.

Requirements and competences:

Formal education

  • Holds at least a Bachelor’s degree in law

Work experience

  • Between 3 and 5 years of relevant work experience
  • Has an understanding of complicated legal structures, preferably in a private equity environment
  • Has a good understanding of Luxembourg company law
  • Good understanding of MS Office tools

Soft skills

  • Understands what it means to work in a relatively small organisation, with a hands-on, “can-do” attitude
  • Is able to find the right balance between working independently and being a team player
  • Strong personality, but at the same time neither dominant nor striving to monopolise an area of expertise
  • Able to respond to occasional tight deadlines and to work under pressure without losing the ability to safeguard the required accuracy
  • Trustworthiness, unquestionable integrity and high ethical standards
  • You are a team-oriented, service-oriented and responsible person, and you are characterised by courteous manners. In hectic phases you keep calm, stay positive, have necessary overview and act organised with an eye for detail.

Language skills

  • Fluent in English (both written and spoken)
  • A knowledge of German would be an advantage 

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Select...

When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by COFRA Holding AG (“Controller”), which is located at Switzerland, Grafenauweg 10, 6300 Zug, and can be contacted by emailing mail@cofraholding.com. For questions related to data privacy, please contact privacy@cofraholding.com. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller’s recruitment related activities, which may include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.

Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud software services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this site. Because the European Union Commission has determined that United States data privacy laws do not ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data collected from EU data subjects, the transfer will be subject to appropriate additional safeguards and therefore EU Model Clauses have been used in the agreement with Greenhouse Software, Inc.

Your personal data will be retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment.  Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have to right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority.