Manager, Legal (18-month contract)

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, 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.

Role Summary: The Manager, Legal, engages with senior leadership and business units to 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 our mandate.

The Legal Advisory team serves as a strategic partner to the business, providing proactive, risk-based legal advice across CPPIB’s enterprise operations. The team safeguards the organization’s statutory mandate and independence while enabling prudent, commercially effective decision-making in complex domestic and international environments.

Accountabilities & Qualifications: Accountabilities

• Work closely with business teams to provide strategic, creative and commercial support and advice across a broad range of enterprise legal matters.
• Support complex cross-enterprise projects requiring legal and governance advice and support;
• Provide strategic legal, governance, advisory, and execution support for CPP Investments’ management and investment committee structure, working closely with senior leaders (in their capacity as Committee Chairs) and the cross-enterprise teams that engage with these committees;
• Provide advice and assess risk and governance considerations in connection with CPP Investments’ internal policies, standards and governance framework;
• Provide advice and guidance to external counsel and investment teams on enterprise-facing transaction-related legal questions including issues under investment-related non-disclosure agreements and engagement letters;
• Provide day-to-day legal support in connection with the management of CPP Investments’ global subsidiaries, including drafting and reviewing legal documentation, coordinating with global external counsel, managing regulatory requirements, and advising on the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of corporate entities.
• Provide general advice and support across a broad range of enterprise legal matters, working with enterprise partners across the organization

Qualifications

• LL.B./LL.M or JD required.
• 5+ years of relevant legal experience at a major law firm or an in-house corporate legal department.
• 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.

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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.

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