Associate General Counsel (HYBRID)
Overview
Our client, a real estate solutions company with a niche market position, is seeking to add an Associate General Counsel to their team. As Associate General Counsel you will be a strategic advisor to the company, ensuring legal compliance and mitigating risks.Responsibilities:
The Associate General Counsel serves as a strategic advisor to the company, ensuring legal compliance and mitigating risks. The role includes:
- Leading the legal aspects of the assigned portfolio of teams, projects and corporate functions.
- Navigating legal and regulatory challenges to achieve the company's broad business and policy objectives.
- Advising the senior management on all legal matters affecting the company's operations and governance, including legal advice on risks and implications of projects and business arrangements to support strategic and operational decision-making.
- Provides expert and strategic legal advice and opinions to the Chief Legal Counsel and Executive Management Team 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.
- Oversees and manages 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 major and critical agreements including long-term land leases, purchase and sale agreements, development agreements, construction management agreements, partnership agreements and reciprocal rights and operating agreements.
- Directs, manages and supervises workflow to external counsel, providing leadership and ensuring that matters are efficiently addressed, and objectives are met on time and on budget.
- Manages litigation for the organization, from initial risk assessment to final resolution, including managing external counsel, developing case strategies, and ensuring that all legal proceedings align with the organization's objectives.
Requirements:
You are the ideal candidate if you have/are:
- A seasoned lawyer with 10-15+ 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 or partner 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.
- Aptitude for detail, with a high level of accuracy and superior legal drafting skills.
- Exceptional organizational skills necessary to coordinate a variety of responsibilities, in an often-changing environment, to achieve stated goals and objectives.
- A high degree of competence in verbal and written communication.
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.
City
Toronto
Category
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
Practice Areas
Real Estate
Work Type
Permanent / Full Time