Paralegal, PGIM Real Estate

Job Classification:
Corporate - Legal and Compliance

PGIM Real Estate Law has an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic global investment management business. PGIM Real Estate Law is seeking a Paralegal to join the Americas legal team supporting the PGIM Real Estate Equity business with responsibility for several Prudential subsidiaries, affiliates, and investment vehicles, both domestically and internationally. The position will also have responsibility for investment management, transactions, and special projects.

This individual will report to the Manager, Paralegal.

PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the global investment businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), one of world's largest asset managers with $1.34 trillion in assets under management as of March 31, 2024. Redefining the real estate investing landscape since 1970, PGIM Real Estate has professionals in 32 cities in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific with deep local knowledge and expertise, and gross assets under management and administration of $206 billion (net $179 billion) as of March 31, 2024.

PGIM Real Estate offers to its global client base a broad range of real estate equity, debt and securities investment strategies that span the risk/return spectrum.

PGIM Real Estate's Law department currently has 21 attorneys and 6 paralegals and is part of Prudential's Law, Compliance, Business Ethics and External Affairs department.

The duties of this position will include both long-term established tasks as well as short-term projects that arise from diverse requests for legal advice. The candidate must be able to learn the client's business, become familiar with numerous investment fund structures and their legal requirements, and otherwise become an integral part of the legal team supporting an active real estate investment management firm.

The position is based on Newark, New Jersey and is hybrid with a 3 day in-office requirement.

What you can expect:

The Paralegal will maintain corporate records, drafting resolutions and certificates, oversee state annual report filings, and conduct other corporate and partnership housekeeping. While duties of this position will vary according to need, general responsibilities may include:

• Provide paralegal support for corporate governance, corporate structure, transactions, corporate reporting and other general corporate matters.

• Support routine and complex corporate governance across fund entities and single purpose vehicles, including officer appointments, annual reports, and other filings and corporate records.

• Support handling of information requests and other routine legal matters, i.e., audit letters and updates; compliance reporting, etc.

• Conduct Contract and Confidentiality Agreement review.

• Support execution logistics, including signature collection and notarization.

• Serve as a corporate paralegal liaison with cross-functional teams (tax, finance, operations) to support transactions.

• Identify areas to improve our existing processes with AI and generally improve leverage across the team.

• Provide project management and cross-functional coordination for special projects.

• Monitoring PGIM RE Litigation mailbox for Service of Process.

• Monitoring minor insured litigation and miscellaneous litigation.

• Support for sales, acquisition, and financing transactions.

• Outside counsel support.

• Data entry and maintenance of various databases.

• Ad hoc projects.

What you'll need:

Experience in corporate housekeeping including formation of investment entities such as LPs, LLCs, and corporations, drafting resolutions and certificates, annual maintenance of entities, and dissolution of entities.
Experience in real estate transactions and related property management issues, i.e., litigation, bankruptcy, etc. a plus.

• A minimum 3
-5 years of experience as a paralegal or similar experience, preferably in a corporate environment.

• A college degree or paralegal certificate strongly preferred.

• Strong corporate and contract law experience.

• Strong organizational, communication and project management skills.

• Have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office…