Senior Legal Specialist

First Eagle Investment Management • Boston, NY

21d • $145,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

First Eagle is seeking a Senior Legal Specialist to join the Legal team. The successful candidate can be based in Boston, Chicago, Columbus or New York City and they will be responsible for the duties below and have the following qualifications for this role:

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree with 8+ years of relevant experience at a law firm or financial services
• Proficiency in drafting and reviewing offering documents and similar disclosure materials
• Proven ability to work directly with clients, external parties, and cross-functional business units
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including expert-level proofreading abilities
• Self-motivated professional capable of working independently while maintaining a collaborative team spirit
• High standards, personal accountability, and a detail-oriented approach to complex tasks
• Experience and confidence to work in a growth environment
• Aptitude to handle multiple, disparate, tasks with resilience
• Solution-oriented mindset

Responsibilities

• Assist with onboarding new clients
• Support Client Servicing Team on documentation and requests for existing clients
• Prepare materials for board of directors’ meetings
• Working with outside counsel, draft mutual and private fund supplements, registration statements, and related legal documentation
• Support mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions
• Facilitate regulatory matters for non-US offices
• Coordinate and provide administrative support for various strategic corporate initiatives
• Deliver high-level paralegal/legal specialist assistance and project support to internal lawyers as needed
• Coordinate US regulatory filings
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities across business segments and initiatives to enable our legal processes, tools and technologies (i.e., assess usage of AI for process improvements)
• Work with private equity sponsor on ownership structure and a variety of matters
• Work on records management, entity management and structure charts
• Assist on registered and private fund matters
• Work on required documentation for onboarding trading counterparties
• Handle Know-Your-Customer (KYC) requests from Trading counterparties and regulators
• Work with Investment Teams on review of NDAs and Investment documentation
• Assist RFP Team
• Review of Vendor Contracts

Benefits

• We provide generous paid time-off, medical/dental/vision healthcare plans, 401(k) retirement and profit-sharing plans, a flexible/hybrid work environment, “dress for the day” flexible work attire, and many more great benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level