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About the role
Join our Legal, Compliance and Risk Management team within Group Functions division in Switzerland as Legal Assistant and Paralegal to help us take Group Legal to the next level.
We are looking for someone who can provide specialized administrative support and secretarial assistance to the Legal & Compliance team including IP, and in particular to the Head Group Legal & Company Secretary at Sulzer’s headquarters.
Your main tasks and responsibilities:
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Corporate housekeeping matters with regard to Swiss legal entities, including updating data and records in the relevant commercial registers; support their corporate actions by planning and organizing board meetings, providing data, and maintaining structure charts and entity lists, both ad-hoc and periodically
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Administer the global legal entity management system and manage shareholder register matters
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Assist in the preparation of the AGM, the corporate governance report and internal project management logistics (e.g., assist in the collation of litigation and other compliance reports, administering insider trading lists, etc.)
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Make travel arrangements, prepare itineraries, and compile documents for travel-related meetings and schedule appointments and meetings for team events, trainings and the like
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Ensure proper signing in the context of M&A transactions, and manage all post-closing activities
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Maintain, manage, and keep up to date the legal and compliance paper and electronic archive as well as the internal document and contract management systems and databases
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Provide administrative support by preparing, reviewing, and processing expense notes, managing the translation of documents, liaising with the IT department, arranging delivery and collection of documents to and from the notary public office and the like
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Cross-divisional collaboration on special projects and perform legal research and assist in special projects in close collaboration with the senior legal counsels