Senior Director & Counsel, Private Capital & Deals

LRO Staffing; Ottawa; In loco; CAD 160.000 - 175.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

LRO Staffing is partnering with an Ottawa residential developer to recruit a Director & Counsel, Private Capital. This role leads securities and compliance, structures investments, and mentors a small team while partnering with finance on deal economics.

The successful candidate will be called to the Canadian Bar, possess post-call experience in funds law, and translate external counsel guidance into compliant processes and policies. Salary sits at $160k–$175k CAD with a variable component.

Competenze

• Called to the Canadian Bar with a Law Society of Ontario license or eligibility.
• 4–7 years post-call in corporate commercial, real estate or funds law.
• Exceptional drafting and ability to operationalize counsel’s advice into policy and controls.
• Understanding of LP/GP waterfalls, preferred return and promote.
• Commercial instinct with willingness to own investor work and deal economics.
• Comfort handling investor-facing technical discussions.

Mansioni

• Own internal securities compliance end-to-end, implementing external counsel’s recommendations.
• Sign off on outbound investor materials and maintain compliance controls for sales.
• Coordinate registrant obligation analyses with external counsel.
• Draft, negotiate and finalize investor offering documents.
• Instruct and manage external counsel on structuring and offerings.
• Co-own deal economics with finance: fee structure, promote, waterfall.
• Oversee corporate secretarial and entity compliance (annual returns, minutes, cap table, GP/LP filings).
• Field investor questions beyond PM on tax, returns, waterfall and structure.
• Review investor communications for legal/compliance before publication.
• Serve as senior technical contact for institutional partners on structure and due diligence.
• Manage and develop the Portfolio Manager; plan for junior hire as scale.
• Support building the firm’s first private fund with VP of Finance and external advisors.
• Provide initial legal review on loan/financing agreements, coordinating with external counsel.

Conoscenze

Bar admission

Post-call experience

Drafting skills

LP/GP structures knowledge

Commercial acumen

Investor-facing experience

Formazione

JD/LLB or equivalent

Strumenti

None

Descrizione del lavoro

LRO Staffing is partnering with an Ottawa residential developer to recruit a Director & Counsel, Private Capital. This role leads securities and compliance, structures investments, and mentors a small team while partnering with finance on deal economics.

The successful candidate will be called to the Canadian Bar, possess post-call experience in funds law, and translate external counsel guidance into compliant processes and policies. Salary sits at $160k–$175k CAD with a variable component.