EY Law - Corporate Law Clerk - Montreal

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Montreal; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Montreal seeks a Corporate Law Clerk to provide clients with quality legal service, focusing on corporate law advisory. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of legal support experience, excellent bilingual communication skills, and is detail-oriented. This position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Medical and dental coverage

Defined contribution pension plan

Vacation policy

Learning opportunities

Qualifications

• 2-3 years in a legal support role, preferably in corporate and employment law.
• Excellent verbal and written skills in French and English.

Responsibilities

• Utilize technical legal understanding of corporate law for clients.
• Draft, review, and analyze corporate and commercial contracts.
• Meet with Corporate Lawyers and relay information back to leadership.

Skills

Organizational skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Attention to detail

Bilingual (French and English)

Education

Undergraduate university degree or college diploma

Job description

Overview

As a Corporate Law Clerk with EY Law LLP, you will provide our clients with quality service. Our team delivers commercial, corporate and partnership law advisory services, including corporate due diligences, corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, transfer pricing and drafting commercial contracts.

Responsibilities

• Utilize your technical legal and procedural understanding of corporate law and apply this knowledge to client situations.
• Assist in drafting, reviewing and analyzing corporate and commercial contracts, including service agreements, joint operating agreements, participating agreements and other agreements necessary to conduct operations.
• Ensure that applications, agreements and contracts are filed in a timely manner.
• Meet with Corporate Lawyers to discuss questions raised by clients and relay information back to leadership.
• Draft emails in response to queries by clients and build trust through effective and accurate communication.
• Assist in elaboration of scopes of work and client step-memos.
• Follow up with internal teams to ensure all processes and procedures are aligned to execute client requests.
• Ensure that lawyers are consistently advised of client-related issues.
• Attend seminars and professional development courses relevant to the area of specialty as required.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate university degree, college diploma, or equivalent experience.
• 2–3 years in a legal support role, preferably in the corporate and employment law space.
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal French language skills; bilingualism in French and English is an asset.

Additional skills

Able to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic and team-oriented environment. Able to multi-task and manage a variety of concurrent projects. A high level of professionalism and the ability to appropriately manage sensitive and confidential information.

What we look for

We’re interested in strong team players who support colleagues in reaching their goals while also considering their own workload and development. We’re looking for people with a genuine passion for tax, and the future of tax, and are inspired to help the world’s leading multinational organizations meet complex tax obligations around the world. If you have the confidence to speak up and influence a team that affects big businesses worldwide, this role is for you.

What we offer

At EY, our Total Rewards package supports our commitment to creating a leading people culture — built on high-performance teaming — where everyone can achieve their potential and contribute to building a better working world for our people, our clients and our communities. We offer a competitive compensation package based on performance, with a range of benefits designed to support your physical, financial и social well-being. Our Total Rewards package includes medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy, firm-paid days for longer weekends, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a variety of additional programs and benefits.

• Support and coaching from experienced colleagues.
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that suits you.

Diversity and Inclusion at EY

Diversity and inclusiveness are at the heart of who we are. We are committed to fostering an environment where differences are valued, policies are equitable, and our people feel a sense of belonging. We embrace diversity, combat systemic racism, promote gender equity and leadership, support the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, advocate for neuroinclusion and accessibility initiatives, and amplify the voices of Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) nationwide as we strive toward reconciliation. Our diverse experiences, abilities, backgrounds, and perspectives help guide our work and empower our people to build a better working world.

EY | Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, creating long-term value for clients, people and society and building trust in capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues of today.