Top General Counsel Jobs in Toronto

Provides legal and regulatory advice on repos, securities lending, derivatives, commodities, and related capital markets activities. Drafts and negotiates complex transaction documentation, advises on regulatory initiatives, manages legal risks, oversees external counsel, and represents BMO with regulators and industry groups. Leads a team of lawyers and law clerks, develops legal strategies, resolves sensitive issues, and supports enterprise-wide stakeholder relationships.

Leads the commercial legal function for an AI networking infrastructure company. Responsibilities include structuring and negotiating customer, supplier, technology, licensing, manufacturing, procurement, and strategic partnership agreements; advising executives on commercial, intellectual property, privacy, security, and regulatory risks; and partnering with Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain. The role also builds scalable contracting processes, templates, playbooks, approval frameworks, self-service tools, and legal technology infrastructure, with potential to manage a growing team.

Leads the legal function across a complex, multi-entity California organization. Advises CEOs, executives, boards, and affiliated entities on corporate, commercial, contracts, governance, regulatory, real estate, risk, and business matters. Oversees outside counsel, supports healthcare and senior living operations, manages enterprise legal risks, and provides strategic guidance across nonprofit, investment, insurance, and property-related activities.

Lead the legal function for a growing deep-technology company, advising the CEO, executive team, and Board on governance, financing, commercial agreements, infrastructure development, intellectual property, government contracting, and compliance. The General Counsel will manage and develop a legal team, oversee outside counsel, support commercialization and strategic partnerships, and build scalable legal processes, policies, technology, and capabilities.

Leads CFC’s Canadian legal and compliance function, advising on insurance regulation, licensing, corporate, commercial, privacy, employment, and operational matters. Oversees licensing frameworks, regulatory engagement, compliance controls, contracts, legal templates, and stakeholder guidance. Supports M&A, portfolio acquisitions, cross-border initiatives, and disputes while managing legal and regulatory teams and advising senior and Board-level stakeholders.

Provide legal and regulatory counsel on retail crypto products in Canada, advise product and compliance teams on launches and compliance, engage with Canadian securities regulators and SROs, identify and mitigate legal risks, and partner cross-functionally to deliver practical, timely legal advice.

Provides commercial legal support for a B2B SaaS organization, leading complex enterprise negotiations and drafting agreements across multiple jurisdictions. Advises executives and cross-functional teams on contracts, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, data governance, and technology matters. Develops legal templates, playbooks, governance frameworks, compliance programs, and risk mitigation strategies while supporting product launches and partnerships. Manages outside counsel and improves legal operations, processes, and technology. The role is hybrid in Toronto and reports to the Chief Counsel.

Provide embedded legal counsel to product and engineering on privacy, IP, and consumer protection; lead Arena's global privacy program (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, cross-border transfers); advise on AI governance and responsible deployment; support commercial contracts and data flow frameworks; build privacy processes, playbooks, internal agents, and legal-tech integrations to scale operations.

Serve as senior commercial legal leader advising on complex enterprise SaaS, API/developer platform, technology licensing, and strategic partnerships; build scalable contracting processes, counsel executives on AI/privacy/IP issues, mentor legal team members, and support international expansion and go-to-market initiatives.