Paralegal - Global Financial Markets

A&O Shearman is recruiting a Paralegal to join our GFM Practice Group in Dubai.
Our Global Financial Markets (GFM) team covers an exciting and broad area of finance. We work with colleagues across practice groups and jurisdictions on helping the world’s most successful companies fund themselves and manage risk.

Our work shapes market practice and our lawyers are involved in innovative, cutting edge and high-profile deals. We have advised on many industry ‘firsts’, including some of the most innovative transactions in sustainable finance and digital bonds. In recent years we have also advised clients on complex funding matters as they navigate difficult economic conditions and often act as a client’s first port of call in times of market crisis.

• Assisting with the day-to-day management of transactions
• Preparing legal documents for execution
• Legal research and know how development
• Drafting standard and more complex documents, including precedents
• Running legal surveys
• Answering client queries directly
• Document management including filing, indexing, and data entry, basic drafting and updating extranet documents
• Assisting with and responding to queries from fee-earners across the firm
• Assisting with the administration of know-how system data bases
• General paralegal duties and support

• LPC or SQE qualifications (or equivalent) are desirable
• Prior experience of working as a Paralegal or working within a legal corporate department would be an advantage
• Excellent writing skills
• Strong research and organisational skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication, professionalism and interpersonal skills
• Hard working, enthusiastic, team player
• High level of initiative and a willingness to learn
• High level of computer literacy, including appropriate use of AI tools
• Proven ability to effectively manage a busy workload and cope under pressure

Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.

Our approach to hybrid working seeks to combine and maximise the benefits of effective remote working with the benefits of being in the office. Our current hybrid working arrangements require office based working for a minimum of 60% of your time (i.e. three days per week for a full time role) in accordance with our hybrid working policy.

A&O Shearman is a global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 28 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to an inclusive environment, and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.