Governance Senior Paralegal

AbbVie • North Chicago, IL • 6d ago

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok (https://www.tiktok.com/@abbvie) .

Job Description

AbbVie is seeking a dynamic Corporate Governance Senior Paralegal to join the Legal Division's Corporate Governance group. This position reports to the Counsel, Securities and Governance, and plays a key role in managing subsidiary corporate governance while supporting various projects. We welcome applicants ready to make a significant contribution across diverse global regions.

Core Responsibilities:

Lead the maintenance and oversight of AbbVie's global affiliates including offshore locations such as Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.

Prepare and conduct substantive and critical reviews of documents, such as consents, resolutions, certifications, and minutes requiring the signature of corporate officers; exercise judgment to escalate documents needing further attention to attorneys within the legal department.

Proactively identify and address governance needs within AbbVie's structure, considering evolving regulations, changing corporate priorities, and leadership sensitivities.

Manage regular reviews of corporate entities with third-party providers, outside counsel, internal stakeholders, and colleagues in local jurisdictions to ensure the accuracy of corporate records.

Manage official subsidiary records and the subsidiary database, maintaining the entity management system by cleaning up existing records and keeping up-to-date information on entity names, stockholders, directors, and officers/managers.

Lead and manage liquidation, integration and restructuring projects, ensuring effective execution and compliance with legal requirements.

Collaborate cross-functionally and externally to coordinate required actions at the subsidiary level; support finance, tax, and treasury teams in efforts related to bank accounts, subsidiary restructurings, and other requests.

Supervise and mentor one direct report, providing guidance and support in the area of responsibility across JAPAC, MEA, LATAM.

Serve as the Record Management lead, responsible for overseeing both electronic and physical records.

Identify and execute opportunities to improve efficiencies related to the above tasks.

Assist in managing, preparing, and processing general administrative matters, including copying and filing; responsible for updating various contact lists (including internal and external counsel, directors, finance directors, etc.) and verifying/updating data in various databases.

Flexibility to take on special projects and/or additional responsibilities, as needed.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and/or ABA approved Paralegal Certificate.

Minimum 5 years' experience within a law firm or Legal Department of a corporation, preferably in a corporate governance setting.

Skills & Knowledge

Comfortable managing a direct report.

Strong team player who is both committed and flexible.

Discretion and strong communication skills required to effectively gather relevant information from internal and external clients and interact with others, both inside and outside the Company.

Strong organizational, project management, and multitasking skills to manage multiple competing matters, meet required work deadlines, and follow-up on outstanding requests.

Proactive and enthusiastic with strong customer service mindset.

Ability to work effectively across the global enterprise, dealing with stakeholders at all levels of the organization and in various cultures.

Familiar with entity organization tools (e.g., Diligent) and iManage.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ??

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.??

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.??

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ??

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.? Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Salary: $82,500 - $157,500

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