Beacon Software · Toronto
Finance & LegalLegalFullTimeposted 4w ago
Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind. We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software and services companies: niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are too specific for the enterprise giants and too profitable to ignore. Our model is simple. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently. We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs and operators who believe the most important businesses in the world are already running quietly in industries most people never think about. Our job is to find them, support the people who built them, and make them better. We seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. Our flexible structure offers entrepreneurs a unique option to implement a transition that ensures the continuity of the company while receiving liquidity at full value for their equity in their business. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable. We are permanent, committed capital with no exit pressure and a long-term time horizon, backed by a diverse base of investors including Wall Street (D1 Capital, CPMG), Silicon Valley (General Catalyst and Lightspeed), the family offices of world-class technology entrepreneurs (including the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp), and evergreen funds built for the long game (Sator Grove).
Beacon was founded by Nilam Ganenthiran, entrepreneur, former President of Instacart, and investor at D1 Capital, who has spent his career building, scaling, and backing high-growth technology businesses.
We are seeking a highly ambitious paralegal to join Beacon’s legal team and serve as the day-to-day point of contact for post-close legal integration across Beacon’s acquisitions, from LOI signing through full integration completion. Reporting to Beacon’s Senior Paralegal and Legal Operations Lead, you will be the hands-on paralegal executing the legal integration workstream on every deal - owning corporate governance clean-up, driving diligence follow-up, and building out integration workflows for legal, while ensuring every integration gets across the finish line. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for a paralegal who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to be at the center of Beacon’s integration strategy. You will execute the legal integration workstream internally as the primary legal resource on each transaction post-close,working directly with our M&A, legal and Integration teams, coordinating with our registered agent providers, and handling post-closing matters across our growing portfolios. We are looking for someone who is ready to do the heavy lifting on integration – someone with broad legal judgment who can spot and address general legal and compliance issues beyond the four corners of the post-closing checklist, and who is prepared to leverage AI tools to drive efficiency across the entire integration lifecycle.
• Integration Project Management: Lead the legal integration workstream for newly acquired companies - collaborating cross-functionally to ensure alignment with company policy and compliance requirements, and maintaining integration dashboards, project plans, and status documentation.
• Legal Operations & Workflow: Build out Beacon's legal integration workflows and program, manage the library of approved templates and resources, and lead each newly acquired company's introduction to Beacon Legal.
• Diligence Support: Review data rooms and assist Legal in collecting, reviewing, and summarizing diligence information with an eye toward post-close integration, and help scope clean-up items.
• Corporate Management & Compliance: Transfer registered agent services, complete state and DBA registrations, and clean up minute books.
• Tracking & Reporting: Own the post-close tracker from day one through completion - maintaining accurate records of the transaction, legal integration milestones, and flagging items that require timeline extensions.
• Risk Management: Assist with identifying, escalating, and mitigating legal risk in existing agreements (customer, vendor, partner, contractor) or practices, alongside internal and external counsel.
• Record Management: Ensure employment agreements, customer contracts, and other key agreements and corporate records are saved in a centralized repository.
• Licensed paralegal in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 1–3 years of experience as a corporate clerk, paralegal, or in a corporate governance/legal support role, ideally within a multi-entity environment (M&A integration, private equity, venture capital, or holding company experience preferred).
• Strong knowledge of corporate governance practices, minute book management, and entity lifecycle administration, including a strong working understanding of Canadian and U.S. corporate entity law (federal and provincial/state) and how it applies to multi-entity structures.
• Familiarity with U.S. state and Canadian provincial corporate filing requirements, including annual reports, foreign qualifications, and DBA registrations.
• Experience managing cross-jurisdictional compliance obligations and coordinating with registered agents and external counsel.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with high attention to detail.
• Highly Proficient with AI tools for legal work (e.g., AI-assisted contract review, document drafting, legal research). A genuine enthusiasm and need for integrating AI into day-to-day legal practice is essential.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office / Google Suite and project management tools (Asana, Zendesk or similar)
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-volume deal environment with multiple concurrent transactions and shifting priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal business partners.
• Self-directed operator who can own the corporate governance function end-to-end with minimal supervision – setting priorities, driving deadlines, managing advisors, and leading cross-functional projects independently. Comfortable making judgment calls, escalating only what truly needs escalation, and running this workstream as the internal expert.
• Experience with vertical market software, SaaS, or technology-focused M&A transactions is a strong plus.
Our Values at Beacon Software
Humility: We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. We have strong beliefs which are weakly held. We actively seek new ideas and believe we can learn from anyone at any time.
Honesty: We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems. Business is a repeat game and we believe that human relationships generate alpha. We understand that trust is earned over a lifetime and can be lost in an instant.
Hunger: We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked. We take pride in having a deep sense of responsibility to ourselves, each other, our partners, and our customers. We believe to whom much is given much is expected.
Horizon: We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades. We manage our expectations and those of our partners to take advantage of the 8th wonder of the world - compounding growth.
How We Use AI in Our Hiring Process: To ensure transparency, we want candidates to know that Beacon Software uses Artificial Intelligence and AI-enabled tools to assist with screening, reviewing, organizing and highlighting profiles and applications that match the key requirements for each role.
AI does not make hiring decisions: Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.