Ontario - Start-Up Lawyer

Caravel Law LLP; Toronto; Remote; CAD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Caravel Law LLP in Toronto, Ontario, seeks an experienced lawyer to guide startups and growth companies. You will handle formation, corporate transactions, and governance, with direct client contact and senior-level mandates.

The role emphasizes autonomy, flexible scheduling, and a business-driven mindset, with opportunities to engage with national clients and growth ventures. Remote work considered for certain engagements.

Qualifications

• Law degree required.
• Membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.
• Minimum of five years advising entrepreneurs and startups.
• Clear, business-driven answers under time pressure.

Responsibilities

• Advise growth companies on formation, shareholders' agreements, and private transactions.
• Provide corporate governance, stock option plans, licenses, terms and employment matters.
• Represent Caravel at startup conferences, networking events and industry organizations.
• Deliver business-focused advice with direct client contact on mandates.

Skills

Entrepreneurial experience

Client advisory

Time management

Autonomy

Education

Law degree

Ontario Bar Admission / Law Society of Ontario member

Job description

WHO WE ARE

For over 20 years, Caravel Law has pioneered a different kind of law firm in Canada.

Our lawyers combine Big Law training with in-house experience, and embed directly with clients to deliver sophisticated, business-minded counsel without the overhead, hierarchy, or billable hours targets of traditional firms.

We work alongside General Counsel, the C-suite, and founders to build scalable legal capacity where and when it is needed. We don't measure success in hours billed. We measure it in deals closed, risks avoided and businesses built. At Caravel, you can design your work around your life, while laying the foundation for a meaningful, rewarding career.

WHY CARAVEL

• Control over your practice. Full-time or reduced schedule, your call. No billable hour targets, no lockstep, no partnership tournament, and compensation that reflects the work you do.


• Work at your level. Senior mandates and direct client contact, without the internal machinery that dilutes both.


• Focus on the work. Business development, marketing, conflicts, engagement management, and billing are handled. You practise; we run the firm.


• A strong community. Work with peers who bring some of the strongest in-house and law firm experience in the country, and a supportive team dedicated to the success, connection, and well-being of every lawyer at the firm.


• A firm built to innovate. We offer a dedicated legal innovation function and AI-enabled delivery, because our clients expect us to be ahead of them.


• Strong trajectory. Two decades in, Caravel is growing faster than at any point in its history, with a national bench and sophisticated client engagements that keep expanding.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Experience

• A law degree.


• Membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.


• A minimum of five (5) years experience advising entrepreneurs and startups, preferably from private practice at a major Canadian law firm


• The ability to give a clear, business-driven answer under time pressure and stand behind it.


• Comfort operating with autonomy. Our lawyers are independent by design and run their own mandates.

Specialized Expertise

• Assist a variety of growth companies with corporate legal services including company formation, shareholders' agreements, private placements, corporate transactions, stock option plans, license agreements, terms and conditions of use and employment matters.


• Comfortable representing Caravel at various startup related conferences, networking events and organizations.

Location

• Toronto, Ontario. Remote elsewhere in Canada is also acceptable.