Legal Counsel, Investments - SLC Management

SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors. We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations. Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM). As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship.  

We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset.  As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference. We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape.

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SLC Management offers a mix of in-office and virtual work where our employees are empowered to do their best. Generally, employees are expected to work three or more days in-office each week with flexibility depending on their business, client and team needs.

Legal Counsel, Investments - SLC Management

What Is in It for You:

Interested in developing your career with a great opportunity to join our SLC Management legal team and support our growing asset management and investment business?  The SLC Management legal team is seeking a Senior Counsel for our Investments team.  In this role, the successful candidate will provide strategic advice to SLC Management’s private fixed income investment team on interesting and complex financing transactions. 

We are looking for a finance lawyer with relevant experience and technical expertise in negotiating private credit deals.  We primarily support a sophisticated client base (SLC Management’s Private Fixed Income business) and are looking for a lawyer with business acumen and a relentless focus on the client experience and execution to join our dynamic SLC Management legal team.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Review and negotiate debt documentation, identify legal, structural and related risks in potential transactions, ensuring the documentation aligns with the understandings and expectations of the business. Sectors covered include corporate private placements, private asset finance, infrastructure/project finance debt, sponsor credit solutions, and specialty finance and securitization

• Support private equity investments and negotiate the investment documentation, including side letters

• Monitor and advise on applicable legal and regulatory provisions

• Support other SLC Management projects and priorities

• Oversee, direct and/or review the work of external counsel

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• A member in good standing with the law society of any province or territory in Canada, with 3+ years of relevant experience at a law firm or in-house legal team

• Experience in secured and unsecured financing transactions, project finance, structured finance, syndicated bank lending, commercial mortgages and/or asset lending

• Bankruptcy, workout and/or investment management law experience would be an asset

• Private equity investment experience would be an asset

• American College of Investment Counsel membership would be an asset

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Able to engage and influence others with confidence

• Able to apply analytical and creative thinking to provide innovative solutions and manage risk

• Skilled at providing plain language written and spoken advice

• Skilled at simplifying complex legal concepts

• Able to develop our team’s knowledge and use of generative AI tools

• Able to take a risk-based approach to the prioritization of work

• Able to build relationships across multiple areas of the business, legal team and Sun Life group of companies

Why SLC Management?

• Opportunity to work for a growing global institutional asset manager
• Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being – mental, physical and financial – including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program, a partially-paid sabbatical program and much more
• Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security
• A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development #WeWinAsATeam
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
• Award winning workplace culture - Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the U.S., “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, “Best Places to Work in Money Management” by Pension & Investments

SLC Management is a regulated business, and this means that there are certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees. Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.

Salary Range

We are committed to pay transparency and equity. The base salary range for this role is competitive and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined by your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and overall business performance along with a broad range of competitive benefits.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive. We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to [email protected].

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.