Transactional Staff Attorney

Description – External

Paul, Weiss is currently accepting resumes of NY barred attorneys with previous transactional experience for consideration. Staff Attorneys sign three-month contracts, which are renewable depending on their performance and the needs of the assignment. Candidates for New York positions must be admitted to practice in the State of New York. All Candidates need to have a minimum law school G.P.A. of 3.0. Please attached your law school transcript.  This position is on a hybrid schedule.

Responsibilities

Manage and coordinate for various Private Funds clients:

• Investor onboarding process, including review of investor documents and subscription materials (including AML material) and coordinating with investors and client
• Transfers of LP interests process,  including drafting and negotiating of transfer documents
• MFN election process, including preparing MFN charts and reviewing elections
• Side letter compliance process, including preparing master side letter charts and bespoke compliance charts (e.g., investment opt-outs)
• Form documentation update process, including tracking best practice updates to fund terms
• PPM and Form ADV update process, including tracking best practice updates and maintaining master compendium of risk factors and conflicts disclosure
• World Sky compliance process, including maintaining master list of advice received from local counsel
• Form D process, including preparing initial Form D for new fundraises and annual amendments and coordinating state filings

• Corporate entity formation process, including drafting formation documents
• Alternative Investment Vehicle process, including drafting of AIV documents
• Status list updates process, including coordinating with funds team and client on updates

Salary:

$115,000. Paul, Weiss offers competitive compensation and benefits packages.  The firm considers a number of factors when determining compensation, including, but not limited to, education, years of experience, levels of experience, competency levels and other relevant skills and qualifications.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to age, color, disability, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, protected veteran, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or any other characteristic protected by law in all personnel actions including recruitment, evaluation, selection, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, and termination of employment.