Corporate Attorney

Job description

**Business type**:
Types of Jobs - Legal

**Job title**:
Corporate Attorney

**Contract type**:
Permanent Contract

**Management position**:
No

**Job summary**:
**Main Responsibilities**
- Coverage areas will include, broadly speaking:

- Transversal:

- Support commercial and control functions in documenting vendor relationships, including office landlords, IT and other service providers
- Advise the bank as appropriate in connection with regulatory matters including securities, derivatives, data privacy and cyber risk
- Assist the Legal Department in its role as corporate secretary for CACIB’s Canadian and NY subsidiaries
- Assist in the Legal Department reporting and initiatives, including cross-border surveys
- Provide timely management reporting, KPIs, and permanent control reports as required
- Represent the Legal Function in connection with special projects as necessary
- Effectively manage external counsel in connection with the foregoing
- Transactional:

- Support business lines inside and outside of Canada in structuring transactions in light of Canadian legal/regulatory constraints and CACIB policy requirements
- Review commercial finance transactions (e.g. trade finance, receivables/supply chain finance) booked in CACIB Canada
- Provide support, as necessary, to the Head of Commercial Finance Legal (based in NY) on cross border transactions with a Canadian nexus (e.g. Canadian transactions booked in NY)
- Draft, review and negotiate, in conjunction with the Head of Regional Coordination Americas, legal documentation related to the bank’s advisory activities in the Americas region, including M&A, Debt and ESG
- Effectively manage external counsel in connection with the foregoing
- Maintaining awareness of market changes and regulation, and the potential legal impact.
- Providing legal input in approval process of new products or activities.
- Involvement in projects regarding the development of legal documents and templates and new business initiatives.

**Supplementary Information**:
**Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities**
- Provide ad hoc advice and updates on current developments to relevant legal terms, businesses or support functions
- Assist in drafting and updating templates and assist with the negotiation
- Maintain a thorough knowledge of relevant banking and financial services business (and its regulatory environment)
- Mandate and manage external law firms, as required and in accordance with applicable policies, in accordance with the activities within the scope of CACIB Canada
- Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal compliance requirements as published
- Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence

**Key Internal contacts**
- Head of Legal for Canada
- Head of Regional Coordination Americas - LGL

**Key External Contacts**
- External Counsel
- Industry Associations

Position location

**Geographical area**:
America, Canada

**City**:
MONTREAL

**Minimal education level**:
Postgraduate degree - MA/MSc/PhD/Doctorate or equivalent

**Academic qualification / Speciality**:

- Qualified to practice law in Quebec, with other relevant Canadian federal and provincial qualifications
- Qualified to practice law in the State of New York (an asset)

**Level of mínimal experience**:
6-10 years

**Experience**:

- 7 years’ relevant experience
- Broad general legal experience in a variety of commercial contexts
- Excellent drafting skills and knowledge of current market standards/practices
- Strong background in sourcing/procurement and/or negotiation of complex IT and outsourcing contracts (an asset)

**Required skills**:

- Verbal and written communication skills in English and French required (You will need to service Anglophone clients and work with Anglophone colleagues)
- Excellent analytical skills
- Team player who leads by example
- Ability to function with limited supervision
- Creative and adaptable mindset

**Languages**:
English, French