Corporate Paralegal

Corporate Paralegal — Aura Tech Solutions Inc.

Chicago, IL | January 2024 – Present

• Administered corporate governance for 140 subsidiaries using CSC Navigator, maintaining 100% compliance for annual filings and saving $45,000 in state penalties.
• Drafted over 260 written consents, board resolutions, and meeting minutes for 5 joint ventures using MS SharePoint, accelerating corporate approval cycles by 28%.
• Coordinated legal due diligence for 4 strategic acquisitions valued up to $85M, managing virtual data rooms via ShareVault and auditing 1,200+ historical corporate records.
• Reorganized the equity ledgers and employee stock option pools for 650 active stakeholders on Carta, identifying and resolving 48 cap table discrepancies prior to a Series B audit.

Legal Assistant (Corporate Specialty) — Garrison, Vance & Croft LLP

Chicago, IL | August 2021 – December 2023

• Prepared articles of incorporation, bylaws, and dissolution filings for 95 corporate formations, cutting client onboarding time by 22% using the Delaware corporate filing portal.
• Managed UCC filing protocols and lien searches for 15 secured transactions valued at $120M, ensuring 100% accuracy and zero filing delays on UCC-1 forms using CSC Navigator.
• Audited annual compliance records for 75 corporate clients, resolving 35 historical entity status issues and restoring active good standing across 4 key state jurisdictions.
• Implemented a standardized legal document archiving framework via NetDocuments, cataloging 15,000+ files and decreasing retrieval search times by 35% for a team of 12 partners.

Corporate governance, Entity lifecycle management, Subsidiary compliance, Board minutes and resolutions, Delaware Division of Corporations, Carta, CSC Navigator, Diligent Boards, NetDocuments, ShareVault, Sharepoint, UCC-1 and UCC-3 filings, M&A due diligence, Cap table administration

Multinational Entity Portal Migration

Role: Lead Compliance Paralegal

Tools: CSC Navigator, MS Excel, ShareVault

Led the transfer of corporate records for 120 global subsidiaries to a unified digital portal, reducing document retrieval times by 32% and onboarding corporate officers 15 days faster.

Pre-Audit Cap Table Cleanup

Role: Equity Database Administrator

Tools: Carta, Microsoft Excel

Reconciled historical stock certificate ledgers and stock options for 650 stakeholders in Carta, correcting 48 equity allocation errors ahead of a major Series B funding round.

• Certified Paralegal (CP) (2021)
• Advanced Certified Paralegal (ACP) - Corporate Law (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Professional working proficiency)
• Volunteer Work: Volunteer legal document preparer for Chicago Community Law Clinic (2022–present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice