Director, Legal Services (HYBRID)
Overview
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 Counsels 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.
City
Toronto
Category
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
Practice Areas
Real Estate
Work Type
Permanent / Full Time