Georgian - Corporate Lawyer - Toronto

  • 4 to 6 years experience
  • In-house
  • Georgian
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Founded in 2008, Georgian is a growth equity investment manager, focused on investing in early to late stage technology companies. Georgian has approximately US$6B in assets under management and is based in Toronto. Its team brings together investment professionals, software and machine learning experts, and experienced operators in a collaborative and entrepreneurial environment.

Georgian is looking for an experienced Corporate Lawyer to join their growing and nimble legal team. This unique opportunity is for proactive individuals with strong legal backgrounds, superior analytical skills, and excellent business judgment. If being part of building out a program and contributing to its execution is exciting and motivating to you, then you must explore what Georgian has to offer.

Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, you will work closely with multiple business units to provide expert advice on private fund matters, contractual matters and support the company’s strategic initiatives. Some duties include but are not limited to: work closely with key stakeholders across Georgian business functions on fund formation, fundraising, governance and investor relations; draft, review, negotiate, and finalize a range of enterprise-level contracts; collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business needs, objectives and strategies; collaborate with external legal counsel to ensure risk based delivery of legal services; and identify and implement innovative and scalable legal practices to support Georgian’s ongoing growth and expanding business activities.

The successful candidate will have 4-6 years of experience practicing general corporate law, with a focus on private funds, at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal department.

All interested candidates should apply in complete confidence to Erica Deffett or Adam Lepofsky at RainMaker Group.

ericad@rainmakergroup.ca | adaml@rainmakergroup.ca

As this is an exclusive assignment with RainMaker Group, any resumes sent directly to Georgian will be re-directed to RainMaker Group. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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