Paralegal (Hybrid)

Sempra is a leading North American energy infrastructure company that helps meet the daily energy needs of nearly 40 million consumers. As the owner of one of the largest energy networks on the continent, Sempra is helping to electrify and decarbonize some of the world's most significant economic markets, including California, Texas, Mexico and the LNG export market. The company is also consistently recognized as a leader in sustainable business practices and for its long-standing commitment to building a high-performance culture focused on safety, leadership and workforce development, and diversity and inclusion. Investor's Business Daily named Sempra the top-ranked utility in the U.S. for environmental, social and governance scores and financial performance. Sempra was also included on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index for the 12th consecutive year. More information about Sempra is available at sempra.com and on Twitter @Sempra.

Primary Purpose:
Under the direction of an attorney, support legal, governance, transactional, compliance and administrative matters, including: analyze, summarize and prepare basic level corporate governance documents and legal forms; update and maintain legal files; coordinate processes and activities with company businesses and management committees and provide excellent service and support for internal and external parties; draft correspondence, memoranda and presentations and perform legal and factual research; assist with board projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare and review preliminary drafts of forms of transactional and corporate governance legal documents, including corporate minutes, board and shareholder resolutions and consents, promissory notes, and other documentation under supervision of an attorney.
• Maintain corporate database and prepare standard summary data analysis of corporate entities, descriptions of basic corporate structure, and other tasks as required by the corporate secretary’s office and the managing attorneys responsible for corporate governance functions.
• Perform legal diligence searches pertaining to corporate organizational structures; prepare preliminary drafts of legal forms for recordation and filing of corporate formation documents; intercompany loan/borrowing agreements, negotiable instruments, stock and other indicia of ownership.
• Assist in determining appropriate company approvals and coordinate formal approval process; assist businesses in determining appropriate agenda items for board meetings and maintaining best practices in corporate governance and support board projects as needed.
• Review, analyze, and prepare responses to data requests from regulators and litigation-related requests as well as KYC (know your client) requests in connection with financings and other purposes.
• Conduct basic to intermediate level legal and factual research on assigned issues including review and analyze company records, contracts and legal documents; provide conclusions and recommendations to attorneys.
• Assist with, obtain and distribute notarizations, apostilles, legalized documents, certified copies, corporate filings and other corporate documents as needed.
• Use on-line research tools to perform routine searches for standard factual and legal information pertaining to the company and assigned matters; maintain files for corporate data and legal documents.
• Assist in preparation and filing of SEC regulatory filings including 8-Ks and Forms 3, 4 and 5 in a timely manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Law, related field, or equivalent training and/or experience, required.

Experience:

• 3 years of previous paralegal or related experience, required.

Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrates a sound understanding of legal standards, professional methods, regulations and underlying legal concepts within their area of legal expertise, required.
• Expertise in drafting, reviewing, and proofreading contracts and other legal documents, required.
• Ability to anticipate outcomes, recommend appropriate solutions to standard issues and work independently on assignments, seeking guidance for more complex work, required.
• Ability to meet deadlines, handle multiple complex tasks, and work effectively both independently and as part of a team, required.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and collegially, both orally and in writing, with both internal and external parties at all levels, including with outside counsel, required.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion and tact, be responsive to requests and provide excellent client service, required.
• Must reside in Southern California or be willing to relocate upon hire.
• We offer a hybrid work environment. Although the schedule may vary, typically this will allow you to work from the office three days per week and work remotely on the remaining workdays.

Licenses and Certifications

• Certification by an American Bar Association approved Paralegal Program or proof of licensed certification pursuant to California law, required.

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