Lawyer

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 Lawyer in our Mumbai office.  The individual will be responsible for providing legal advice and support for CPP Investments’ fast-growing investment and enterprise activities in India and select enterprise activities globally.  Reporting to a Managing Director, Legal (located in our Hong Kong office), the successful and exceptional candidate will join our top caliber Legal Department and a dynamic global team of legal and compliance professionals who engage directly with senior leadership and business units in providing advice and support to enable the business and navigate and comply with legal and regulatory requirements consistent with our Guiding Principles.  This role provides an excellent opportunity to work on a broad range of complex, leading edge, and high-profile transactions and novel enterprise matters across CPP Investments’ activities in India and elsewhere.  If you are a commercially-minded legal professional with transactional and enterprise experience then consider joining our team.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Working closely with a Director, Legal in the Mumbai office, partner with deal teams to provide strategic, creative and commercial transaction support and advice across a broad range of investment matters in India 
• Engage with deal teams and external counsel on complex deal-specific and institutional-level transactional issues
• Provide advice and assess legal risk in connection with review and amendment of commercial contracts in the APAC region, and manage and enhance related contractual templates and precedents, working closely and collaboratively with other lawyers and paralegal professionals in the Legal Department and business units across the enterprise
• Provide advice and assess risk in connection with review and negotiation of material issues arising on commercial and investment-related non-disclosure agreements, engagement letters and other types of agreements in the APAC region
• Provide general corporate support in connection with the operation, governance and maintenance of the Mumbai office, including our Mumbai-based technology and data operations
• Provide and support training of investment and enterprise teams and external counsel on institutional, department, group, and deal-specific key considerations
• Support development and implementation of enterprise policies, procedures, systems and training to support implementation of advice and risk management
• Support and collaborate with Legal department colleagues and other partners across the organization in relation to transaction- and enterprise related matters
• Anticipate, identify and assist in managing legal risks relating to new investment strategies and enterprise activities, and new or changed laws or regulations that impact CPP Investments’ investment and operating strategies
• Be a key contributor to Legal Department and CPP Investments-wide initiatives and projects
• Generally assist on other legal matters as they arise

• LL.B./LL.M/JD or equivalent required
• 5-8 years of relevant legal experience gained at an in-house corporate legal department and/or major law firm, including meaningful experience in India
• Experience in financial services, capital markets and/or a transactional background is an asset
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders and ability to manage outside counsel
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple competing projects
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Motivated self-started with the ability to work independently with moderate to minimal supervision
• Flexibility and adaptability, including off-hours support relating to transactions, international offices and projects
• Professional conduct reflecting the quality of work, demeanour, 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.