Job Description

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, S\xc3\xa3o Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments\xe2\x80\x99 important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here\xe2\x80\x99s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



CPP Investments is seeking a talented lawyer to join our public markets legal and compliance team. This is a unique opportunity to support the largest Canadian investor in global public markets. Reporting to the Managing Director that leads the public markets legal and compliance team and located in Toronto, the successful candidate will join a dynamic team of legal and compliance professionals who engage directly with the business units that invest in the public markets. If you are a commercially minded lawyer with a broad interest in the public markets, then please consider joining our team.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Advise on regulatory and compliance matters related to public market and securities related matters, including fund investing
• Transactional and advisory work related to public market trading activities across a broad range of asset classes, jurisdictions, and product types
• Providing advice to global trading and investment groups, and engaging and managing external counsel globally
• Regulatory monitoring to identify and interpret new and proposed regulatory rules that impact public market trading and investment activities
• Coordination and providence guidance in relation to CPP Investments\xe2\x80\x99 securities filings globally, with support from the Compliance Monitoring team, regional members of the CPP Investments legal and compliance team and external counsel
• Manage the negotiation of OTC trading documentation (e.g., ISDAs, GMRAs, GMSLAs), including maintaining trading documentation inventory
• Engage with internal stakeholders including traders, investment professionals, tax, investment risk and operations and external counsel in connection with supporting traders and investment deal teams on both deal-specific and institutional-level matters

Qualifications

• LL.B./LL.M/JD or equivalent required
• 5+ years of experience in securities law gained at a major law firm or sophisticated in-house corporate legal department. Experience related to capital markets regulatory and/or fund investments practice will be considered an asset.
• MBA, CFA, CA, and/or other relevant industry designations are a plus
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including an ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders with varying perspectives, and ability to manage external counsel
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple competing projects
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Flexibility and adaptability, including off-hours support relating to transactions, international offices, and projects
• Professional conduct reflecting the quality of work, demeanor, ethical values, and high standards of CPP Investments

Additional Information

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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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.

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