Law Clerk - 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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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. 

CPP Investments has an opening for a Corporate Law Clerk (or similarly qualified candidate with subsidiary management experience) to join our Legal Department on a full-time contract basis.  Reporting to a lawyer in the Legal Group, the successful candidate would provide broad entity management and subsidiary support, including project leadership and support associated with the entity management system used by CPP Investments to store virtual corporate records as well as general support for managing inbound Know Your Client (KYC) requests.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic team of legal and compliance professionals who engage directly with senior leadership, investment groups and other business units to help them navigate, understand and comply with legal and regulatory requirements in a manner consistent with our Guiding Principles and our mandate to help support a stable retirement income for more than 22 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.

Accountabilities

• Support ongoing management of CPP Investments’ legal entity records, including project leadership and support associated with the entity management system used by CPP Investments to store virtual corporate records.
• Build a strong understanding of CPP Investments’ global subsidiaries, including their structure, appointments and governance structures to support completion of, and responses to, inbound ‘know your client’ or ‘KYC’ requests from transaction and banking counterparties.
• Ensure CPP Investments’ virtual minute book system remains consistent with physical minute books, including through direct engagement with global service providers that assist with corporate secretarial matters for certain non-CBCA subsidiaries
• Support the completion of annual and periodic filings, including annual returns (and coordinate with service providers where required)
• Support the drafting of corporate documentation and resolutions and, where appropriate, work with external service providers for documentation requirements for non-CBCA entities
• When requested, provide support for the entity creation process for new companies, which may involve collaboration with external counsel and internal teams on entity creation documentation
• Support the entity dissolution process for corporate entities that are no longer required

• Paralegal, Law Clerk accreditation or other substantive legal training that supports a strong ability to manage legal entity records management and compliance obligations.
• 5+ years of experience at a law firm or corporate clerk function in-house at a large corporation with significant subsidiary management experience
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and project-management skills, including ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders.
• Familiarity with entity management software and systems and Excel would be an asset
• Experience establishing, maintaining and winding-up various entities; a plus if that experience includes jurisdictions outside Canada
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Strong communications skills, both written and oral.
• Embraces accountability and ownership of team development at the group and individual levels
• Professional conduct reflecting the quality of work, demeanor, ethical values and high standards of CPP Investments

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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.