General Counsel

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada IKO North America Full time

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you


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 our business objectives. You will be our first in-house lawyer and build a team of legal professional from scratch.


This is a permanent full-time role based at Yorkdale-Toronto.


WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

  • Competitive salary
  • Competitive health and benefit plan
  • Competitive matched retirement savings program
  • The opportunity to join a continuously growing organization with focus on Diversity and Inclusion


WHEN YOU JOIN US YOU WILL:

  • Draft and review various commercial agreements, such as supply, joint venture, procurement, nondisclosure, construction, service, warranty, and terms of sales agreements, then advise based on legal implications.
  • Advise client regarding and draft incorporation and corporate organizational documents for federal and various provincial corporations.
  • Advise clients regarding various corporate, partnership, limited partnership, and other corporate structures.
  • Draft legal documentation to implement various tax reorganization structures.
  • Advise clients regarding various types of corporate and commercial transactions, including acquisitions (share and assets), joint ventures, partnerships, and dissolutions.
  • Work with external counsel on any pre-litigation research and preparation.
  • Pioneer the legal team and its practices in an ever-growing environment.
  • 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.
  • Represent clients in negotiations, mediations, hearings, and trials, both domestically and internationally, while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and ethical conduct.
  • Resolve commercial disputes, mediations, arbitrations, litigations, and administrative proceedings by, among other things, drafting position statements, supervising discovery, and negotiating settlement agreements.
  • Handle 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 meeting with clients to review and attend to execution of documentation, registering transactions prepare reporting letters and other transactional documents.
  • Draft commercial leases and amendments.
  • Establish and keep updated applicable real estate precedents, such as leases, purchase and sale agreements.
  • Manage regulatory and compliance-related services.


OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE.

  • Juris Doctorate (JD) degree (essential).
  • Admitted as a notary public (essential).
  • 8-10 years of commercial real estate and general corporate/commercial experience
  • Licensed with the Law Society of Ontario
  • 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, curative, and claims.
  • Analytical thinker with strong conceptual and research skills.
  • Excellent negotiation, communication and analytical skills.
  • Influential decision-making, organized, professional, and well informed while ensuring that transactions are legal, binding, and in the best interest of the client.


WORK AUTHORIZATIONS AND TRAVEL

  • Must be authorized to work in Canada
  • Some Travel maybe required (1 to 2 trips per year)


Benefits of Employment: IKO recognizes that its success is due to the strength of its employees. A primary goal of IKO is to promote individual employee's sense of accomplishment and contribution so that employees enjoy their association with IKO. The Company invests in its employees so that they are the most knowledgeable in the industry, and undertakes great efforts to nurture loyalty to, and teamwork at, IKO. We are pleased to offer competitive compensation, health care, a progressive and challenging workplace and a commitment to teamwork and integrity.

Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment: IKO Industries Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. IKO Industries Ltd. encourages and welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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