Associate Lawyer - Corporate Law

Our client is a national leader in Canadian business law, offering creative solutions to clients across Canada and around the world. Our client’s culture attracts talented individuals that hold unique beliefs, orientations, and perspectives, but share an approach to the way they do business. Their growing client base benefits from the broad range of legal talent at their firm, composed of people from different backgrounds and abilities who hold varied skill sets and forms of expertise.

Our client is now seeking to add a highly skilled mid-level Corporate Associate to their current complement of transactional experts in their Vancouver office. In this role, you will work on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including public and private mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; financing transactions, including public offerings of securities; compliance with both corporate and securities regulatory requirements relating to stock exchange listings, corporate governance, continuous disclosure obligations, shareholders’ meetings; private equity; growth equity investments; joint ventures; complex corporate reorganizations; and general corporate law matters across a multitude of industries. 

Qualifications and Attributes:

• The successful candidate will have 2 to 5 years of post call private practice experience working in corporate law from a highly reputable national, regional or corporate law boutique.
• Experience acting for issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in domestic and cross-border public offerings and private placement of debt, equity and structured finance products would be considered an asset.
• Experience dealing with corporate governance matters, disclosure issues, equity, and debt trading strategies, as well as regulatory compliance matters.
• Excellent interpersonal and client service skills, strong initiative, and the ability to work well on a variety of teams.
• Excellent organizational, project management, and the ability to handle multiple time sensitive priorities.
• Strong analytical, communication and drafting skills.
• Above average academics
• Qualified to practice law in Canada

Our client is offering the following:

• Tier- one lockstep base salary
• Tier-one bonus incentives
• Relocation support, if applicable
• Comprehensive family health benefits
• Hybrid work environment

Salary range: $145,000 - $185,000 per annum.

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume in confidence to Stacy Cowan at stacy@urbanlegal.ca

At Urban Legal Recruitment, we prioritize discretion and confidentiality. We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.