Lead Paralegal, Corporate Governance & Securities

Job Description

Heidrick & Struggles is the world’s foremost advisor on executive leadership, driving superior client performance through premier human capital leadership advisory services. For more than 70 years, we’ve delivered value for our clients by leveraging unrivaled expertise to help organizations discover and enable outstanding leaders and teams. Learn more at

Heidrick & Struggles is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions.

Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.

The Senior Corporate Paralegal – Corporate Governance and Legal Operations will be responsible for comprehensive support of a broad range of matters, including international enterprise-wide corporate governance support, all matters relating to board of directors and committee meetings, corporate transactions, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), entity management, and other Legal Department support across Heidrick’s business. This position will collaborate with executive management, board members, external advisors and cross-functional teams spanning internal organizations such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Investor Relations, Communications, Operations, and other key stakeholder groups.

• Board of Directors and committee meetings administration – drafting agendas, resolutions, certain presentation materials, and associated recordkeeping, maintaining Board and committee rolling calendars.
• Primary responsibility for coordinating collection and distribution of materials for board and committee review via Diligent Board portal for all Board and committee meetings and actions.
• Drafting of board and committee meeting minutes and associated recordkeeping.
• Liaise with Directors and Senior Management on Board meeting logistics, materials, and support Office of CEO on event planning for Board meetings.
• Manage deadlines, calendaring/scheduling, etc.
liSupport D&O questionnaire and board/committee self‑evaluation processes and analysis.
• Gather materials for recordkeeping diligence involving board minutes/materials.

• Coordinate with Legal Department support staff to keep internal website up to date with Legal policies, processes, forms, etc.
• Assist Chief Legal Officer and Assistant Corporate Secretary in coordinating the Company’s Enterprise Risk Management program and reporting to the Board governance, Sustainability and ERM matters.
• Assist Chief Legal Officer and manager with annual Legal Department budgeting process.
• Coordinate with outside law firms and vendors for the Legal Department on engagement, onboarding including utilization of vendor portal, invoicing and spend vs budget tracking and analysis; coordinate with Finance for accruals and forecasting of Legal Department spend.
• Assist with special projects as needed; perform other related duties as assigned by management.

• Support attorneys with transactional work, including corporate and M&A transactions.
• Manage diligence workflows, maintain transaction trackers and closing checklists, and handle post‑closing filings and organization.
• Assist with drafting and coordinating closing deliverables (e.g., offering documents, resolutions, officer certificates, governance documents) and support workflows throughout deal life cycles.
• Coordinate with third parties for filings and ensure compliance with reporting deadlines.
• Prepare closing certificates, board and stockholder resolutions, and other transactional documents, including those related to M&A.