Senior Legal Specialist

Who we are looking for:

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:

What you will do:

• 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

The qualities you should have:

• 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

Base Salary range: $145,000 to $200,000. Compensation may vary based upon, but not limited to, the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, and internal equity. 

The duties and responsibilities described herein are not a comprehensive list. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, and certain tasks may not be assigned, and the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

We value our people and offer a broad range of 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. For more information, please refer to our First Eagle Benefits website.

First Eagle Investments and their affiliates and subsidiaries, including First Eagle Alternative Credit and Napier Park Global Capital, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at First Eagle, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religious belief, including dress and grooming practices, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, breastfeeding or medical conditions related to breastfeeding, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), or any other protected characteristic as established by law.