Paralegal - VC & Cap Table Management

• *Paralegal – Venture Capital Fundraising & Cap Table Management** • Full-Time | Remote / Chicago / Hybrid* • *About the role:** At Saturday Legal, we serve as concierge counsel for our clients, providing strategic legal consulting to help high-growth companies and their investors take risk responsibly as they scale. Our team handles every legal issue faced by our clients -- from commercial contracts to corporate governance, employment law to overseeing outside specialist law firms. In this role, you will focus on supporting venture capital and other private financings, including managing cap tables and equity records (with a particular emphasis on Carta administration), and helping founders and investors navigate the fundraising lifecycle. Not only will you support Saturday Legal's lawyers on their day-to-day client work, but you will also ensure Saturday Legal's back office and legal operations related to equity, financings, and investor relations are efficient and organized during its rapid growth. • *What kind of person are we looking for?** • A problem solver who is comfortable stretching your knowledge to areas with which you may be less familiar. You are comfortable being uncomfortable and are interested in diving into new projects, particularly those involving complex capitalization and financing structures. • You are excited to flex your entrepreneurial muscle and help build a new kind of legal services business that sits at the intersection of startups, investors, and growth-stage companies. • You have a meticulous attention to detail and excellent judgement, especially when inputting, reviewing, and reconciling cap table and equity information. You’re the type of person who Googled “judgement vs. judgment” to know which was correct. • A strong communicator who is excited to work both internally with our team and externally with our clients, including founders, finance teams, and investors. • *In a typical week, you may…** • Manage the entire contract workflow for venture and other financings, including preparing and revising NDAs, SAFEs, convertible notes, preferred stock purchase agreements, investor rights and voting agreements, side letters, and related ancillary documents based on existing forms, including NVCA documents; distinguishing between material vs. non-material legal and business issues; routing contracts for approval and signature; filing finished contracts; and tracking key dates and closing deliverables. • Update and maintain the library of form documents, contract clauses, financing playbooks, and cap table templates, as needed. • Maintain corporate minute books, including drafting written consents and board/shareholder resolutions for equity issuances, option grants, and venture financings; gathering approvals and signatures; and responding to internal and external requests for corporate records and capitalization information. • Coordinate registered agent responsibilities and manage state corporate filings and annual reports for client entities, including filings triggered by new financings or changes to the capitalization structure. • Manage relationships with outside counsel and oversee their work, including optimizing efficiencies and managing clients' outside legal spend on fundraisings, cap table cleanups, and corporate maintenance projects. • Update and maintain the virtual data room used by external investors, including organizing capitalization, financing, and corporate governance documents to support due diligence and closings. • Act as project manager on multiple legal initiatives, tasks and projects, with a focus on coordinating venture financings, secondary transactions, and option refreshes across internal and external stakeholders. • Manage equity and capitalization records, including maintaining accurate cap tables and option records in Carta (or similar platforms), processing new financings and equity issuances in the system, and reconciling company records with platform data. • Support the full lifecycle of venture capital and other private financings, from pre-transaction cap table cleanup and scenario modeling, through term sheet and closing documentation support, to post-closing cap table and stock ledger updates. • Have a willingness to perform legal assistant and administrative tasks as needed, including gathering signatures, managing and organizing all electronic and hard copy files (filing, scanning, saving and copying), creating/updating binders and closing sets for financings, and a willingness to pitch in as needed and be responsive to new/additional requests in a startup workplace. • *Minimum requirements:** • A history of being a collaborative team player and partnering with internal and external contacts at all levels, including founders, finance teams, and investors. • Strong organizational and communic