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Responsibilities
The Paralegal will support Related Midwest's legal function, with a primary focus on corporate governance and transactional matters. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting corporate and real estate transactions, while also demonstrating the versatility to support a broad range of legal matters. This position will be based in Chicago, IL.

• Support the legal team in all aspects of corporate governance, real estate transactions, and other legal matters and special projects
• Assist in the preparation, review and editing of legal documents, including transaction documents, NDAs, license agreements and other contracts
• Support corporate/real estate transactions and coordinate closing processes, including ordering good standing certificates and lien searches, overseeing document execution and compiling and delivering documents
• Monitor transaction timelines, closing checklists, and follow up on outstanding items to ensure timely completion
• Prepare organizational documents, including entity formation documents, operating agreements, assignments, authorizing resolutions, officer/incumbency certificates and other governance materials
• Maintain legal department files, records, templates, databases and transaction documentation
• Collaborate and interface with outside legal counsel, internal business teams and other stakeholders

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-7 years of paralegal experience supporting corporate and transactional matters in a law firm or in-house legal department
• Experience supporting corporate and transactional matters; real estate experience is strongly preferred
• Superior interpersonal skills:
  • Ease in working with people up and down the organization hierarchy
  • Naturally adaptive to different audiences
  • Diplomatically assertive
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, prioritize competing deadlines, and work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with Corporate Services Company (CSC) strongly preferred
• Experience reviewing title commitments, surveys, and zoning reports preferred
• Strong sense of integrity and ethics
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Undergraduate degree required

Compensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.
Anticipated base salary range: $100,000 - $130,000+
Actual base salary within the anticipated range will be determined by several components including, but not limited to, the individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and market factors.
Overview
Related Midwest, the Chicago office of Related Companies, is the preeminent developer of mixed-use properties, affordable housing communities, and luxury condominium and rental homes across Chicago. The company commands a portfolio of residential, mixed-use and master-planned properties, including pioneering projects like The 78 where the company is heading a transformational development on 62 acres in the heart of downtown Chicago to create the city's next great neighborhood. Related Midwest is also the largest developer of affordable housing in the Midwest, with more than 10,000 units, and has never converted an affordable unit to market rate.
The firm's other market-defining projects include ultra-luxury residential tower One Bennett Park, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects; The Row Fulton Market, the first high-rise in Chicago built by an African American general contractor (BOWA Construction); luxury rental towers 500 N. Lake Shore Drive and OneEleven; Lathrop, an ongoing restoration and redevelopment of the historic Julia C. Lathrop Homes into a mixed-income community; 400 Lake Shore Drive, two residential towers situated where the river meets the lake in Chicago, and Roosevelt Square, an innovative 120-acre multi-phase development on Chicago's west side.
For more than 30 years, Related Midwest has been an industry leader in community commitment and routinely sets the bar for measurable equity, diversity and inclusion standards on all of its projects. The company is deeply committed to improving neighborhoods, creating sustainable opportunities for small businesses and community residents, and building inspirational places and homes for all. Related Midwest's business model is built on partnership with minority- and women-owned firms as well as mentorship of small minority- and women-owned businesses as they launch and grow. The firm is a founding partner in HIRE360, a first-of-its-kind community partnership designed to expand professional development and employment opportunities in the trades.
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