Corporate Paralegal

KPMG•Montreal, QC

6h•Onsite

About The Position

At KPMG in Canada, our people bring their unique perspectives to Canada’s most important challenges. Here, you can build momentum that reaches beyond our business, develop skills for the future, and take ownership of your career with support at every stage. Join a firm where your career can make a difference. KPMG Law LLP is a national law firm affiliated with the professional services firm of KPMG LLP, with offices in major markets across Canada. As an integrated, multidisciplinary firm, our lawyers work closely with accountants and other professionals on complex client engagements across a broad range of legal and tax‑related practice areas. We are looking for a junior paralegal to join our growing team. As a member of our team, you are actively supporting associates and paralegals, and providing administrative support to help our clients through the corporate life cycle and transactional mandates. Your organizational skills, initiative, and strong work ethic will allow you to coordinate and meet the deadlines of multiple files.

Requirements

A minimum of 1 year of corporate law experience
An undergraduate university degree and/or a college Law Clerk/Paralegal diploma with excellent academic credentials
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Decisiveness and the ability to balance the demands of a high volume practice
Excellent communication skills
Strong MS Office skills
The position involves working primarily with English speaking clients and the incumbent must be able to communicate with the clients, both verbally and in writing, in English. They also must be able to assist with the preparation of English language documents.

Responsibilities

Prepare annual corporate maintenance documents, i.e. annual proceeding resolutions
Preparing routine corporate resolutions, such as dividends
Prepare and file: Federal annual returns and Quebec annual declarations; register enterprises and partnerships at the REQ
Maintain corporate records and corporate data base (Minutebox)
Prepare documents and coordinate extra provincial registrations of entities in other Canadian jurisdictions and keep compliance matters up to date in connection with those registrations
Prepare resolutions and public filing documents to record director/officer and registered office address changes
Compile information required for beneficial ownership registers and collect and protect client information required for such registers
Prepare correspondence with clients and agents for service
Conduct corporate, personal property, litigation and other searches and compiling due diligence reports