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About the Role
This role involves supporting global network on various cross-border transactions, working on reorganizations, integrations, corporate transactional matters, and other multijurisdictional projects that are often cross-border, high value, and complex in nature. The candidate will develop skills to deliver the highest quality service for world-class clients across the globe.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with a variety of the Firm's practice groups including Reorganizations, Cross Border Transactions and Integrations, Corporate, and M&A.
- Assist the Firm's various global offices with a diverse range of matters, often across multiple jurisdictions, such as acting as a country or regional coordinator and drafting corporate documentation.
- Work as part of project teams with other Baker McKenzie lawyers, legal project managers, and members of the legal tech team from across the firm's global network of offices.
- Develop strong working relationships with partners and lawyers in various practice groups in a variety of jurisdictions.
- Assist with bespoke projects other than billable matters such as contributing to the identification of innovative services, methods, know-how, and platforms to assist in achieving efficiencies and continual process improvement.
Requirements
- Qualified as a solicitor with demonstrable corporate experience.
- Ability to review, organize and analyze documentary and factual evidence, advising on risk and practical mitigation measures.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work well in a team with others of various experience levels as well as individually.
- Sound commercial awareness and a "client first" service orientation.
- Ability to set high standards of performance and deliver desired results.
- A "self-starter" who is collaborative, pragmatic, commercial, and adaptable in their approach.
- Excellent writing and organization skills.
- Ability to balance work priorities and manage deadlines effectively.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and online research tools.
Skills
- Corporate legal experience
- Pragmatic legal advice
- Reorganizations
- Integrations
- Corporate transactional matters
- Multijurisdictional projects
- Cross-border transactions
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Teamwork
- Individual work
- Commercial awareness
- Client service orientation
- Performance standards
- Results delivery
- Self-starter
- Collaborative approach
- Pragmatic approach
- Commercial approach
- Adaptable approach
- Writing skills
- Organization skills
- Work prioritization
- Deadline management
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Online research tools
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full Time
Experience Level
- 2-4 years of experience
Education Level
- Qualified as a solicitor
Salary/Compensations
- CAN $150,000 to CAN $175,000 annually
About the Company
- At Baker McKenzie we are different in the way we think, work and behave. With our team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 locally admitted lawyers, in over 70 offices worldwide, we have a passionately collaborative community of 60 nationalities and are committed to world-class career development to everyone in every job at every level. Baker McKenzie can offer you both the uncompromising commitment to excellence expected of a top firm paired with a passionately global and genuinely collaborative working environment.
Equal Opportunity
- Baker & McKenzie is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion for all. Our unique international culture is reflected in the drawing together of a worldwide family of individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds in all of our offices. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We encourage applications from individuals of all abilities and backgrounds. If you require accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at recruitmentservices@bakermckenzie.com and we will work with you toward reasonably accommodating your needs.