Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney. 

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe.  Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

CPP Investments has an opening for a Corporate Law Clerk (or similarly qualified candidate with subsidiary management experience) in the Legal Department.  Reporting to a lawyer in the Legal Group, this is an opportunity to join CPP Investments’ legal team and provide experiential insight and guidance on corporate requirements and subsidiary maintenance (including ‘KYC’ management) to help ensure the organization remains current with applicable standards. 

The successful candidate will join a dynamic team of legal and compliance professionals who engage directly with senior leadership, investment groups and other business units to help them navigate, understand, and comply with regulatory requirements in a manner consistent with our Guiding Principles and our mandate to help support a stable retirement income for 22 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Build a strong understanding of CPP Investments’ global subsidiaries, including their structure, appointments, and governance structures to support completion of, and responses to, inbound ‘know your client’ or ‘KYC’ requests from transaction and banking counterparties.
• Review and maintain minute books for all CPP Investments’ subsidiaries to ensure that records are complete and kept updated
• Ensure CPP Investments’ virtual minute book system remains consistent with physical minute books, including through direct engagement with global service providers that assist with corporate secretarial matters for certain non-CBCA subsidiaries
• Oversight and maintenance of CPP Investments’ internal compliance calendar (currently in Excel format but expected to transition to alternate legal entity management software) to ensure CPP Investments maintains a comprehensive understanding of, and complies with, all corporate law requirements applicable to CPP Investments’ subsidiaries
• Active engagement with global service providers to ensure subsidiary management standards and expectations are met for non-Canadian subsidiaries
• Complete annual and periodic filings, including annual returns (and coordinate with service providers where required)
• Provide guidance to internal CPP Investments teams regarding CBCA and OBCA documentation requirements for various matters (e.g., dividends / returns of capital)
• Draft corporate documentation and resolutions and work with external service providers for documentation requirements for non-CBCA entities
• Active involvement with the entity creation process for new companies, which involves collaboration with external counsel and internal teams on entity creation documentation
• Active involvement with entity dissolution process for companies that are no longer required

• Paralegal, Law Clerk accreditation or other substantive legal training that supports an ability to independently manage legal entities and advise on compliance obligations.
• 6 + years of experience at a law firm or corporate clerk function in-house at a large corporation with significant subsidiary management experience
• Familiarity with entity management software and systems  and Excel would be an asset
• Experience establishing, maintaining and winding-up various entities; a plus if that experience includes jurisdictions outside Canada
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders and ability to manage outside counsel
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Embraces accountability and ownership of team development at the group and individual levels
• Professional conduct reflecting the quality of work, demeanor, ethical values, and high standards of CPP Investments

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.