Senior Specialist-Paralegal (M&A)

Overview

Senior Specialist-Paralegal (M&A) supports Fresenius Medical Care's corporate housekeeping, entity governance, and M&A/financing transaction execution for its group affiliates, under the direction of corporate/M&A attorneys.

What you'll do

• Support corporate housekeeping matters and coordinate legal guidance/advice requests for FME group affiliates worldwide, under attorney supervision.
• Manage the portfolio of FME group affiliates, drafting and preparing corporate law documents (by-laws, resolutions, etc.) and compiling relevant corporate information.
• Manage, administer and keep updated the FME group entity database, ensuring accuracy and completeness of corporate records.
• Prepare corporate registration documents and manage registrations with local institutions (commercial/companies registers, register courts, official public disclosure gazettes, beneficial ownership/transparency registers) and equivalent foreign registries.
• Support other registration and publication requirements, coordinating all related measures, steps and documentation.
• Support governance activities at all levels of FME group entities and their organs (e.g. board/shareholder actions), coordinating documentation and process execution under attorney supervision.
• Track and manage adherence to internal governance requirements, including coordination of internal corporate approvals for planned actions and transactions, escalating substantive legal judgment questions to supervising attorneys.
• Support M&A, financing and other corporate transactions, including preparation, coordination and execution of transaction-relevant corporate documentation (powers of attorney, resolutions, confirmations, representations, etc.), under attorney supervision.
• Coordinate closing mechanics and documentation checklists for assigned transactions.
• In alignment with the handling FME M&A Attorney, manage legal project coordination of M&A projects with external counsel.
• Prepare high-level M&A reporting (to be newly set up).
• Prepare, coordinate and execute interactions with local notaries, register courts, embassies, consulates and other public institutions relevant to FME group entities.
• Manage stakeholder interactions (internal and external) relevant to corporate housekeeping and transaction support.
• Manage large or complex corporate housekeeping/transaction-support workstreams with limited oversight from supervising attorneys; coach and delegate work to more junior paralegals.
• Make decisions on complex, sometimes ambiguous coordination and documentation matters within an established governance framework; escalate matters requiring legal judgment on corporate structure, governance interpretation or transaction terms to supervising attorneys.
• Advise corporate/M&A attorneys on process and coordination matters of significance (e.g. cross-jurisdictional registration sequencing, entity database integrity).
• Represent FME in coordination with external institutions (notaries, courts, registries) within a clearly defined, attorney-authorized scope.
• Improve existing corporate housekeeping and transaction-support processes.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree with approximately 8-12 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years, including substantial experience in corporate paralegal/entity governance work.
• Ideally experience supporting multi-jurisdictional group structures in a multinational or shared-services/GBS environment.
• Experience managing corporate entity databases and coordinating registrations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong drafting, organizational and stakeholder-coordination skills; high attention to detail.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Discretion and ability to handle confidential corporate and transactional information.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting M&A or financing transaction documentation (powers of attorney, resolutions, closing checklists).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, KA, India.
• Hybrid work environment.