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Paralegal/Research Analyst Class Action or Anti Trust. Job can be based in NYC or Philadelphia.

Recruiting for a Paralegal/Research Analyst in the Class Action/Antitrust concentration. This position is with a growing, Manhattan based company. They offer, among many things, excellent benefits and a great work/life balance. Are you the right fit for this promising opportunity?

Responsibilities would include tracking and monitoring of global antitrust/cartel/competition litigation, securities class and group litigation filed and settled in jurisdictions in countries across the world; drafting and issuing alerts via established (and to be expanded) proprietary platform to client base; review of all antitrust and securities class action settlements, interpreting plans of allocation, programming proprietary software system to run loss calculations based on intake of client data to aid London ops team in prepping and filing settlement claims for clients, and if non-financial case – then helping to interpret and advise what type of data needs to be gathered; generating reports, etc. This position would act as “back-up” to the other Research Analyst.

• Some travel may be required (not much though), and could be international (so valid passport).
• Antitrust and/or securities class action background.
• Familiarity with the global financial markets/corporate actions and different types of investing (common stock, ADRs, options, bonds/asset backed securities, preferreds, shorting, commodities/futures contracts trading, etc.)
• Will be working as second Research Analyst on team based in Philly that includes support and operations in London, as well.
• Research position, but requires some tech/computer savvy.
• Ability to write memos/executive summaries a plus (writing sample, if possible).
• If person were to have some corporate actions/ops experience from financial institution, that would be a plus – but not deal breaker.
• Could be someone who works antitrust or securities claims at a class action claims administrator or a “case starter” or research paralegal from a law firm (plaintiff’s side would probably be better).
• Responsibilities would include tracking and monitoring of global antitrust/cartel/competition litigation, securities class and group litigation filed and settled in jurisdictions in countries across the world; drafting and issuing alerts via established (and to be expanded) proprietary platform to client base; review of all antitrust and securities class action settlements, interpreting plans of allocation, programming proprietary software system to run loss calculations based on intake of client data to aid London ops team in prepping and filing settlement claims for clients, and if non-financial case – then helping to interpret and advise what type of data needs to be gathered; generating reports, etc.
• Also, this position would act as “back-up” to the other Research Analyst.
• Monitor daily news for announced M&A deals
• Investigate deals for conflicts of interest (i.e. cash deal, going private transaction, management led buy-out) and asses if the deal is conflicted;
• Assist attorney’s with completing draft of “deal” complaint (provide proxy filing, plan of merger, press releases, etc.)
• Monitor industry and company specific news (periodicals, Bloomberg, Internet) for stories relating to corporate fraud, restatements, internal control issues, etc.
• Investigate unusual stock price movements to ascertain whether stock price declines on higher than normal volume are the result of fraud
• Prepare detailed and timely research reports describing fraud situations and discuss whether the situation represent a strong securities fraud case
• Track lawsuit filings of competitor firms
• Prepare and update database of securities cases filed by other law firms noting filing deadline, class period, and general overview of the case
• Assess the merit/strength of cases filed by other firms to determine if they are cases our firm should consider pursuing