Requirements
Description & Requirements
Paralegal
New York, NY
About Fortress
Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager with approximately $54 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2025. Founded in 1998, Fortress manages assets on behalf of over 2,000 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity, permanent capital, and multi-manager investment strategies. Investment performance is our cornerstone - we strive to generate strong risk adjusted returns for our investors over the long term. For additional information on Fortress, please visit www.fortress.com .
Responsibilities
About the Position
- Collect information necessary to form entities, draft and file required formation and governance documents and structure charts and maintain up-to-date records in an entity database
- Assist with know your customer reviews and requests, including drafting and providing required certificates, charts and letters with respect to various funds and portfolio companies
- Draft consents, resolutions and tend to various corporate housekeeping matters;
- Provide significant support in connection with investment fund and transactional closings;
- Investment-fund level recordkeeping, including formation, obligation tracking, maintaining governing documents, etc.;
- Assisting with domestic license applications for credit subsidiaries for various states, and maintaining a database of such;
- Respond to document production requests from various teams and counterparties as well as requests for entity and officer/signatory information
Qualifications
- 2-4 years of corporate experience with an understanding of investment fund and asset level and portfolio company structures
- A bachelor’s degree is required
- Experience at a law firm or in-house corporate legal department is required, financial services experience is preferred
- Each candidate must be able to prioritize and handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Familiarity with computerized databases and on-line services
- Excellent verbal, written, problem solving and organizational skills
- Deadline and detail oriented
- Ability to work independently and proactively as well as part of a team
- A strong work ethic
- Comprehensive knowledge of MS Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio (required) and PowerPoint, Workshare and Adobe
- Notary required
- Hours 9am-6pm with the ability to do overtime as needed
The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $105,000 and $125,000.
The base salary range proposed for this role has been set forth to comply with local law, but salary is only one element of the total compensation for this role. The base salary range suggested above does not include compensation elements such as bonuses, overtime and deferred cash (each of which are applicable in certain roles), benefits, perquisites, and company contributions to employee 401(k) accounts. Such other pay components often result in total compensation materially exceeding base salary for a particular role. Total compensation as well as base salary for a role depend in part upon individual performance, years of service, experience, geographic considerations, the performance and the needs of particular business units, company performance, and general market conditions.
Fortress Investment Group LLC collectively with its subsidiaries and operating affiliates is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
