Top Benefits
About the role
LIFE AFTER LAW is Canada’s trusted Legal Search Authority.
25+ years developing lasting relationships with lawyers, law firms and companies
Our client, a real estate solutions company with a niche market position, is seeking to add a Director, Legal Services, to their team. As Director, Legal Services, you will support the Associate General Counsel and Chief Legal Counsel in ensuring legal compliance and mitigating risks.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting the legal aspects of the assigned portfolio of projects and corporate functions.
- Maintaining an awareness of legal and regulatory matters relevant to achieve the company’s broad business and policy objectives.
- Advising project leads on all legal matters affecting the company’s projects and business arrangements to support operational decision-making.
- Provides expert and strategic legal advice and opinions to the Associate General Counsels and Chief Legal Counsel as well as other senior members of the company's Team on a variety of legal topics, with a primary focus on real estate development, planning, long-term leasing, and construction, and with a secondary focus on other matters including governance, freedom of information, procurement, litigation management, low carbon and sustainability initiatives, and corporate secretarial matters.
- Supports legal needs on multiple complex and high-profile real estate development transactions involving many stakeholders, including the provision of advice on deal structure, drafting and negotiation support and legal due diligence.
- Drafts, reviews and negotiates agreements including long-term land leases, purchase and sale agreements, development agreements, construction management agreements, partnership agreements and reciprocal rights and operating agreements.
- Identifies potential legal risk and supports effective risk mitigation strategies.
- Supports management of litigation for the organization, from initial risk assessment to final resolution.
Requirements:
You are the ideal candidate if you have/are:
- An intermediate lawyer with 7-10 years of broad real estate experience including development, leasing, planning, purchase and sales, joint ventures, and construction.
- Previous experience includes practicing at a senior associate level at a law firm or in‑house counsel at a public or private company with a heavy real estate and development focus.
- Ideally will have had exposure to public and private sector real estate interests and land use planning, as well as gained corporate governance experience and board experience.
- Exceptional organizational skills necessary to coordinate a variety of responsibilities, in an often-changing environment, to achieve stated goals and objectives.
If this describes you, and you are interested in joining an organization that provides a competitive compensation package, a stimulating work environment, and promotes great work-life balance, send us your details.
Life After Law
1920 Yonge Street,
Suite 200
Toronto, ON
M4S 3E2
abesa@lifeafterlaw.com
www.lifeafterlaw.com
We thank all applicants. Only those candidates with the required expertise will be contacted.
About Life After Law
At Life After Law, we strive to be the partner of choice for our clients, meeting their national legal recruitment needs, by providing exceptional talent with the right cultural fit. We are the trusted advisor to our candidates, providing them with valuable market insight and diverse opportunities to achieve their career ambitions and dreams.
Our roots, as the first Canadian Legal Recruiter to focus on the non-traditional realm, provided us with a unique legal recruitment lens. We look at our candidates differently. Our experience has trained us to evaluate all our candidates more holistically than typical legal recruiters and has given us the ability to assess corporate and cultural fit in a way not generally expected or thought possible.
With our extensive national network, enhanced by our boutique personalized level of service, Life After Law can serve the national recruitment needs of your organization.
Top Benefits
About the role
LIFE AFTER LAW is Canada’s trusted Legal Search Authority.
25+ years developing lasting relationships with lawyers, law firms and companies
Our client, a real estate solutions company with a niche market position, is seeking to add a Director, Legal Services, to their team. As Director, Legal Services, you will support the Associate General Counsel and Chief Legal Counsel in ensuring legal compliance and mitigating risks.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting the legal aspects of the assigned portfolio of projects and corporate functions.
- Maintaining an awareness of legal and regulatory matters relevant to achieve the company’s broad business and policy objectives.
- Advising project leads on all legal matters affecting the company’s projects and business arrangements to support operational decision-making.
- Provides expert and strategic legal advice and opinions to the Associate General Counsels and Chief Legal Counsel as well as other senior members of the company's Team on a variety of legal topics, with a primary focus on real estate development, planning, long-term leasing, and construction, and with a secondary focus on other matters including governance, freedom of information, procurement, litigation management, low carbon and sustainability initiatives, and corporate secretarial matters.
- Supports legal needs on multiple complex and high-profile real estate development transactions involving many stakeholders, including the provision of advice on deal structure, drafting and negotiation support and legal due diligence.
- Drafts, reviews and negotiates agreements including long-term land leases, purchase and sale agreements, development agreements, construction management agreements, partnership agreements and reciprocal rights and operating agreements.
- Identifies potential legal risk and supports effective risk mitigation strategies.
- Supports management of litigation for the organization, from initial risk assessment to final resolution.
Requirements:
You are the ideal candidate if you have/are:
- An intermediate lawyer with 7-10 years of broad real estate experience including development, leasing, planning, purchase and sales, joint ventures, and construction.
- Previous experience includes practicing at a senior associate level at a law firm or in‑house counsel at a public or private company with a heavy real estate and development focus.
- Ideally will have had exposure to public and private sector real estate interests and land use planning, as well as gained corporate governance experience and board experience.
- Exceptional organizational skills necessary to coordinate a variety of responsibilities, in an often-changing environment, to achieve stated goals and objectives.
If this describes you, and you are interested in joining an organization that provides a competitive compensation package, a stimulating work environment, and promotes great work-life balance, send us your details.
Life After Law
1920 Yonge Street,
Suite 200
Toronto, ON
M4S 3E2
abesa@lifeafterlaw.com
www.lifeafterlaw.com
We thank all applicants. Only those candidates with the required expertise will be contacted.
About Life After Law
At Life After Law, we strive to be the partner of choice for our clients, meeting their national legal recruitment needs, by providing exceptional talent with the right cultural fit. We are the trusted advisor to our candidates, providing them with valuable market insight and diverse opportunities to achieve their career ambitions and dreams.
Our roots, as the first Canadian Legal Recruiter to focus on the non-traditional realm, provided us with a unique legal recruitment lens. We look at our candidates differently. Our experience has trained us to evaluate all our candidates more holistically than typical legal recruiters and has given us the ability to assess corporate and cultural fit in a way not generally expected or thought possible.
With our extensive national network, enhanced by our boutique personalized level of service, Life After Law can serve the national recruitment needs of your organization.