Associate General Counsel
7 months ago
Senior Legal Counsel, Investments
Department: Legal Services
Type: Permanent
Location: Toronto
At OPTrust,
_paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow_ is our mission and business.
When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust - from London, Toronto, and Sydney - makes a meaningful impact, our environment is fast paced, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community as well. Our strength resides in our team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone.
What OPTrust Offers You- Unique culture rooted in our core values - collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, and excellence and continuous improvement - reflected across the team.- Flexible, hybrid work model being implemented to balance the benefits of working from home and the collaborative teamwork experience in the office.- Membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.- Professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, in-house speaker series, tuition reimbursement program and professional association memberships.- Comprehensive benefits package focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits.- Opportunity to take parental and adoptions leaves to spend time with family.- Competitive vacation package and time away from work such as work-life balance days.
About the Role
OPTrust is looking for an exceptional transactional lawyer to join our Toronto based Legal Services team.
In this position you will be working closely with the investment teams supporting and advising on a wide range of domestic and international transactional and corporate matters. A motivated self-starter with a partnering focused mindset, you will find yourself exposed to a broad range of investment transactions across a continually evolving strategic landscape, including private equity and infrastructure, real estate, private funds, capital markets, and fixed income investments,
In this highly collaborative role, you will be directly advising the deal teams in OPTrust’s investment division across Toronto, London, U.K and Sydney, Australia, providing pro-active solution-based legal and risk management advice in support of our global investment mandate.
What You’ll Do- Support and advise the investment teams with sound counsel across a variety of transactional matters- Participate as an active partner with business units across the organization, using the opportunity to guide and support decision making and mitigate risk- Work directly with internal Tax, Compliance, Investment Finance, Communications, and others to provide pro-active and creative legal, business and investment solutions- Advise on committee matters and support the development of internal investment, trading, finance, and risk management policies- Provide corporate governance and regulatory compliance advice- Plan, supervise and execute on a variety of complex legal initiatives and innovative projects- Work with and manage external counsel
What You Bring- LLB/JD- 6+ years of experience in private equity and/or mergers & acquisitions, securities, corporate finance, investment funds, or transactional real estate at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal department- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adaptable and flexible- Enjoys working collaboratively with many different stakeholders- Client-oriented approach including a demonstrated ability to build trust with clients- Strong legal and business judgment- Willingness to engage in different types of advisory opportunities and adapt to and learn a broad set of transaction types- Highly inquisitive and quick to understand complex issues- Exceptional organizational and analytical skills with the ability to project manage critical work to completion- Ability to manage several files at the same time while maintaining high standard of client service- Ability to work with mínimal supervision and look for opportunities to add value
Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do. We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives are critical to creating long-term value. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. If you require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, or have preferred pronouns, please send a message to
, or discuss your needs with the Recruitment Consultant during the telephone screen. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.
We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.
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