Vice President, Legal Affairs

2 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada ZSA Legal Recruitment Full time

Toronto 10+ years

Our client, the Business Development Bank of Canada ("BDC"), helps to develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, advisory services and capital. They are currently looking for aVice President, Legal Affairs - Financing to join their dynamic team.

The position of Vice President, Legal Affairs - Financing, reporting to the Assistant General Counsel, is a newly created position with a bold mandate to propel the Legal Affairs department to instill the organization's new values and nurture a culture of performance, innovation, and accountability. The successful candidate will oversee the Legal Affairs department's Financing functions; responsible for a national team of more than 25 lawyers and support professionals, across 3 offices; and for ensuring that emerging legal and regulatory risks are identified with a view to proactively advise and influence strategic decision-making for loan structuring and financing at all levels of BDC.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of 10 years of corporate and commercial law experience, financial services exposure, as well as 5+ years of legal management and leadership experience building and leading a high performing, highly engaged, legal team that works to achieve strategic goals. The incumbent will be creative and innovative with excellent business judgement, verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal and team-building skills.

This executive role comes with an impressive compensation package, a wonderful team, and the opportunity to wear a business and legal hat. To learn more on a confidential basis, please email your CV to Orit Sinai at . Ref. .

This is an exclusive search with ZSA Legal Recruitment. All CVs sent to BDC will be redirected to ZSA for review.

Tagged as: Corporate Commercial , Financial Services , In-House , Senior



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