General Counsel
Overview
Our client, a Canadian market leader with international operations, in the manufacturing of building materials industry, is looking to add their first General Counsel to the team.As the General Counsel, you will be responsible for overseeing all legal matters and providing expert advice to senior management on legal issues impacting the company. This is a key leadership role where you will ensure compliance with laws and regulations, manage legal risks, and contribute to the achievement of the company’s business objectives. As the first in-house lawyer, you will be entrusted with building a team of legal professionals from the ground up.
Your role will include:
- Drafting and reviewing various commercial agreements including: supply, joint venture, procurement, nondisclosure, construction, service, warranty, and terms of sales agreements, and providing advice based on legal implications
- Drafting incorporation and corporate organizational documents for both federal and provincial corporations
- Advising the company regarding various corporate, partnership, limited partnership, and other corporate structures
- Drafting legal documentation to implement various tax reorganization structures
- Advising the company regarding various types of corporate and commercial transactions, including acquisitions (share and assets), joint ventures, partnerships, and dissolutions
- Working with external counsel on any pre-litigation research and preparation
- Pioneering the legal team and its practices and procedures in a growing environment
- Providing legal and contractual risk management support for all stages of the business projects, including reviewing, commenting, drafting, and assisting in the preparation and negotiation of project contracts as well as providing advice on various project management matters
- Representing the company in negotiations, mediations, hearings, and trials, both domestically and internationally, while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and ethical conduct
- Resolving commercial disputes, mediations, arbitrations, litigations, and administrative proceedings by, among other things, drafting position statements, supervising discovery, and negotiating settlement agreements
- Managing all legal aspects of commercial real estate purchases and sales, including reviewing title searches, preparing, reviewing, and amending closing documentation, attending to all closing matters, including reviewing and attending to execution of documentation, registering transactions preparing reporting letters and other transactional documents
- Drafting commercial leases and amendments.
- Establishing and maintaining applicable real estate precedents, such as leases, purchase and sale agreements
- Managing regulatory and compliance-related matters
You are the ideal candidate if you have/are:
- JD/LL.B and member in good standing of the Law Society of Ontario
- 8-10+ years of commercial real estate and general corporate/commercial experience
- Strong experience in real estate law and industry knowledge that includes litigation, lease transactions, property management, and purchase and sale transactions
- Experience in title insurance underwriting and claims
- Analytical thinker with strong conceptual and research skills
- Excellent negotiation, communication and analytical skills
- Influential decision-maker who is organized, professional, and well-informed while ensuring that transactions are legal, binding, and in the best interest of the company
- Experience in real estate development, manufacturing, or construction industry is an asset
If this describes you, and you have a proven track record practising corporate/commercial and commercial real estate law and you are interested in joining a dynamic, fast-paced, growing organization that provides an excellent career development opportunity and a competitive compensation package, send us your details!
City
Toronto
Category
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
Practice Areas
Corporate/Commercial
Work Type
Permanent / Full Time