Managing Director, Legal

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3.6 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. 

The Managing Director, Legal, is a senior member of the global Legal team, a trusted advisor to their business partners, and engages directly with senior leadership and business units to partner and provide strategic advice and assess legal risk to the business and help them navigate, understand, and comply with legal and regulatory requirements consistent with our Guiding Principles and CPP Investments’ mandate. This role will work on a variety of complex, leading edge, and high-profile commercial transactions across CPP Investments’ global businesses, focusing particularly on our Real Assets portfolio.

Team Description

CPP Investments is seeking a talented and energetic lawyer to join our Toronto office.  You will be responsible for providing legal advice on investment transactions and asset management across CPP Investments’ Real Assets portfolio, which includes the infrastructure, sustainable energies, and real estate groups, aligning advice with CPP Investments’ mandate and global priorities.  The successful candidate will report to the Managing Director, Head of Investment Legal.

Accountabilities:

• Work closely with business leaders to provide strategic, creative and commercial support and advice across a broad range of investment and enterprise opportunities.
• Supporting Head of Real Assets and the wider Real Assets leadership team in a senior advisory capacity for regional legal, regulatory and strategic matters (both current and anticipated).
• Provide high-level transaction support to real estate, infrastructure, and sustainable energies investment teams, including structuring advice, review of investment recommendations, and regulatory support, within the scope of CPP Investments’ legal services model.
• Regulatory monitoring to identify and interpret new and proposed regulatory rules that impact business activities.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with external counsel.
• Lead / support CPPIB-wide initiatives, including designing, reviewing, drafting, and interpreting enterprise-wide, as well as department-specific, policies and procedures.
• Support and collaborate with the Legal department, Compliance team, and other partners across the organization.
• Anticipate, identify, and assist in managing legal risks relating to new investment or enterprise strategies and activities, and new or changed laws or regulations that impact CPP Investments’ investment or enterprise strategies.
• Drive high performance by fostering an inclusive environment, developing talent and building an effective team.
• Contribute to the evolution and strategic direction of the CPPIB Legal department.

• LL.B./LL.M or JD required.
• U.S. and other international experience is an asset.
• 12+ years of relevant legal experience at a major law firm or an in-house corporate legal department, including meaningful experience in real assets.
• Experience in real assets, in particular one or more of infrastructure, energy or real estate, is strongly preferred.  Global experience in one or more of these areas is a plus.
• Strong execution abilities and motivated self-starter with ability to work independently with minimal/some supervision.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders and ability to manage outside counsel.
• Strong organizational skills; flexible, adaptable, and able to manage ambiguity and multiple projects.
• Demonstrates leadership skills and ability to work with senior business leaders.

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.