M&A Paralegal

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

JOB SUMMARY:
The Corporate / M&A Paralegal is an integral part of 7-Eleven’s Legal group, supporting the team in executing our general corporate and M&A strategies and supporting the M&A team in the handling of various deal-related documents for 7-Eleven transactions across the United States and Canada.  This is a high-volume paralegal position with strong process level and business-oriented integration, and frequent coordination with multiple Company departments and divisions, to ensure proper responses and handling of the issues impacted by the tasks at hand.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

M&A responsibilities would include:

• Draft, review, and revise confidentiality agreements, indications of interest, and letters of intent based on standard forms.
• Oversee and coordinate with the business team on due diligence review.
• Review and revise disclosure schedules based on due diligence review and coordination with the business teams.
• Assist with issue spotting in transaction documents, including purchase agreements.
• Draft and maintain transaction checklists.
• Draft ancillary transaction documents based on standard forms, including real estate transaction documents such as landlord consents and estoppels, assignment and assumption agreements, SNDAs, access agreements, and MOLs.
• Assist with title review during the interim period of a transaction, including reviewing surveys, title commitments, and zoning reports.
• Help manage the closing process, including coordinating with the title company and escrow agent.

General corporate responsibilities would include:

• Draft corporate consents based on standard forms.
• Help with corporate entity management, including director and officer changes.
• Respond to basic inquiries related to Company delegations and authority.
• Conduct basic research of securities / governance issues that may arise.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree and/or paralegal certificate from an ABA approved institution strongly preferred.

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 3+ years of relevant legal and real estate or M&A transactional experience.   

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Strong written communication skills in English.
• Strong organizational skills to facilitate ever-changing workload prioritization and deadline management.
• Strong grasp of purchase agreements, legal concepts, and other documents associated with mergers and acquisitions, with particular strength in transactions involving the purchase and sale of real estate.
• Willing and able to work cooperatively and collaboratively in the role advancing the Company’s business objectives in a highly process-oriented environment with many stakeholders (in-house counsel, outside counsel, accounting groups, transaction negotiators, landlords and tenants, title companies).
• Fully support and execute our servant-leadership expectations for supporting store operations.

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If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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