Paralegal - Corporate M&A

The Opportunity

Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Corporate M&A in our Seoul office?

As a Paralegal, you will apply good judgment and excellent analytical skills to your work. Highly organised and self-motivated, you’ll be a team player with a strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy in your work.

Our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice is globally recognised as a top-tier leader in both public and private M&A transactions. We deliver unparalleled legal services for complex corporate deals, offering strategic planning, due diligence, negotiation, and execution of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other business combinations. Serving a diverse clientele, including multinational corporations, private equity firms and banks, our team ensures regulatory compliance, manages risk, and structures transactions for optimal outcomes.

By combining extensive legal expertise with deep market insight, we help clients navigate high-stakes transactions, fostering growth and creating value, solidifying our reputation as one of the premier M&A practices worldwide.

At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our international team from day one. We foster a collegial working environment where partners are friendly and accessible, and colleagues always supportive and open to questions.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the lawyers as well as the legal support team in a variety of tasks
• Assist in preparing the Firm's credentials and marketing materials, as well as PowerPoint presentations for seminars and client industry-related research in Korean and English 
• Assist in preparing summaries of client meeting in Korean and English
• Translate legal documents from English-Korean and English-Korean 
• Conduct legal research 
• May require overseas business trips and flexible working arrangements

The Skills And Attributes We Are Looking For

• Undergraduate degree (JD/LLM degree preferred)
• Strong academic background
• Fluent oral and written English and Korean language skills
• Clear and concise writing skills
• Good verbal communication skills
• Related work experience in a corporate or law firm environment
• Good organizational skills
• Knowledge of word processing and other software as needed
• Ability to follow through on assignments
• Ability to work under pressure and with a variety of personalities
• Ability to accommodate extended hours and overtime as needed 
• Excellent professional references
• Good judgment
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Hangul Word Processor (HWP) is required

What We Offer

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

How To Apply

Interested?  Please apply by submitting your CV for further consideration. 

White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. If you require assistance and/or accommodation to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email the recruiting contact listed. We will be happy to work with you.

For further assistance or queries regarding this opportunity please reach out to Jennifer Lau at jennifer.lau@whitecase.com 

Note to recruitment agencies: we do not work with recruitment agencies for this role. Candidates submitted by an agency will not be considered a formal introduction.

Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the APAC Recruitment Team.