Legal Counsel

**Legal Counsel**
You will join a team of seasoned legal professionals in a fast-paced work environment focused on creating and supporting asset-based financial solutions for equipment manufacturers, dealers, and distributors primarily in the Agriculture and Food industries, but also in the Healthcare, Clean Technology, Transportation, Construction, Industrial, Office Equipment and Technology industries. You will report into the Chief Legal Counsel, Canada. You will work with the business to maintain existing financial products and develop new financial products. You will provide advice to the business on the impact and implementation of new laws and regulations. You will work with the leadership team to support the implementation of the strategic plan of the business. As a part of your core function, you will assess and monitor all processes, procedures, structures, products, and services from a legal point of view and continuously monitor and advise on optimization of concerning processes and services, liaising with relevant internal and external stakeholders.

**Day to Day**
- Analyzing, drafting, and providing guidance on legal documents.
- Performing legal research.
- Advising the business on developments in the law and impacts on the business.
- Negotiating vendor program agreements, dealer agreements and end-user customer agreements.
- Providing advice in connection with secured transactions and structured financial solutions.
- Managing the corporate governance and licensing requirements of the business.
- Reviewing and updating templates documents.
- Liaising with Sales, Operations, and other relevant internal and external parties.
- Ensuring compliance with global and/or regional or country legal and compliance policies and procedures.
- Delivering input to the country strategy and business plan from a legal perspective.
- Contributing to the development and implementation of (or parts of) legal policies and procedures.
- Coordinating the activities of international or local lawyers and/or law firms for specified assignments, including budget and legal cost control.
- Exchanging and sharing legal knowledge, contribute to the internal legal network, and proactively inform management about legal and compliance developments.

**All members enjoy**
- Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
- Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
- Flexible hours with the possibility to work from home.
- Career development opportunities: online learning, and member development programs.

**Essentials**
- Minimum of 5-8 years’ experience gained at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department, with an emphasis on financial services/secured transactions.
- Bilingual French, with ability to communicate verbally and in writing in French strongly preferred.
- Experience in Food and Ag lending, commercial/inventory finance and retail finance is strongly preferred.
- Excellent business judgment and strong analytical and drafting skills are essential for success in this role.
- Experience in equipment leasing, lending, and vendor finance.
- An energetic and motivated self-starter with sound judgment.
- Capable of working independently in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
- Ability to work from home remotely/independently and in a virtual team environment.
- Some travel will be required of the position.

**Choose Wellbeing**
DLL’s wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical and financial wellness and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.

Our four wellbeing categories are as follows:

- Connection - Build meaningful connections with other DLL members
- Health - Manage mental, emotional and physical health
- Finance - Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
- Lifestyle - Maintain balance between work and life priorities

There are things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL

**Settling In**
At DLL, we are many things. We are team members, family members, community member. We are members of society, members of different cultures and nationalities. Members of change. We each have different beliefs, different passions, different viewpoints, talents and interests. We become from different backgrounds, cultures, nationalities and histories.

But for all of our differences, we share one thing in common: each of us are members of DLL.

Our company was founded in the Netherlands. But today we are truly a multinational business. Our unique culture is rooted in higher collaboration, less hierarchy and a honest directness that enable us to integrate, ideate and innovate across country lines.

Many companies say they are European, American, Asian or Australian, at DLL we are all these places and more.

We are a cross-culture collaborative -