Senior Corporate & Transactions Paralegal

Cogir Management, USA•Scottsdale, AZ

About The Position

Cogir Senior Living, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, oversees a network of senior living communities across 13 states. As a leader in senior housing, Cogir is dedicated to growth, exceptional resident care, and a supportive team environment. Their culture is built on human focus, creativity, and excellence. Cogir is seeking an experienced, highly organized, and business-oriented Senior Corporate & Transactions Paralegal to support the Legal Department. This role involves corporate governance, complex business transactions, commercial contracting, litigation support, regulatory matters, and legal operations. It requires a seasoned legal professional capable of managing complex legal projects, organizing large volumes of information, coordinating stakeholders, and partnering with attorneys, executives, and operational leaders. The role supports a growing national senior living organization with complex legal and business structures, including layered ownership, affiliated entities, joint ventures, management companies, financing parties, and intricate governance relationships. Transactions are often complex, involving multiple entities, ownership tiers, sophisticated financing, and interconnected legal documentation. The ideal candidate must be comfortable with complexity, understanding entity relationships, and maintaining accuracy in a fast-paced setting.

Requirements

Paralegal certificate, bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
10+ years of paralegal experience supporting corporate legal departments, law firms, or similarly complex organizations.
Demonstrated experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, restructurings, management transitions, or other sophisticated corporate transactions.
Experience working with complex ownership structures involving multiple affiliated entities, layered governance arrangements, or multi-party transactions.
Strong knowledge of corporate governance, contract administration, and legal documentation.
Experience supporting litigation, investigations, subpoenas, document collection efforts, or regulatory matters.
Ability to review contracts and identify deviations from established playbooks, templates, and legal standards.
Exceptional organizational, analytical, project management, and document management skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and discretion.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting senior living, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, or other multi-site operating businesses.
Experience supporting transactions involving joint ventures, management companies, operating entities, real estate holdings, financing structures, and affiliated organizations.
Familiarity with licensing, regulatory, and operational compliance requirements.
Experience with contract lifecycle management, legal operations technology, or matter management platforms.
Notary Public certification or ability to obtain certification.

Responsibilities

Support attorneys on acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, management transitions, restructurings, and other strategic transactions.
Review, organize, summarize, and track transaction documents, governance records, contracts, licenses, litigation matters, and other transaction-related information.
Assist in tracking ownership structures, affiliated entities, governance requirements, post-closing obligations, and other legal deliverables associated with complex transactions.
Support legal integration activities following acquisitions, transitions, and organizational restructurings.
Maintain governance records, organizational documents, dashboards, and reporting related to U.S. affiliated entities.
Track annual reports, registrations, licenses, permits, governance obligations, and renewal deadlines.
Support entity formations, dissolutions, reorganizations, officer changes, and related corporate governance activities.
Maintain accurate ownership, governance, and organizational structure records.
Conduct initial reviews of contracts, amendments, NDAs, vendor agreements, and other routine legal documents using approved playbooks, templates, and risk guidelines.
Identify deviations from approved standards and elevate legal or business risks as appropriate.
Administer contract tracking, storage, reporting, obligation management, and related legal operations processes.
Support the continuous improvement of templates, workflows, and Legal Department processes.
Coordinate litigation holds, document preservation efforts, and information collection activities.
Assist with subpoenas, discovery requests, investigations, document productions, and regulatory inquiries.
Coordinate records requests with outside counsel, insurers, regulators, internal stakeholders, and community teams.
Maintain litigation, claims, and regulatory matter trackers, dashboards, and reporting.
Support licensing, regulatory filings, audits, and related compliance initiatives.
Monitor filing deadlines, renewal requirements, and reporting obligations.
Maintain organized systems for legal records, policies, procedures, and critical business documentation.
Coordinate special projects and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, standardization, and operational effectiveness.