Top General Counsel Jobs in Toronto

Provides senior commercial and transactional legal counsel for Element’s U.S. and Canadian operations. Responsibilities include negotiating client, vendor, procurement, sourcing, and partner agreements; advising stakeholders on contractual, compliance, data security, regulatory, and commercial risks; supporting cross-border transactions and disputes; and improving contracting processes and legal practices.

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 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 legal support for product development, privacy, AI governance, and regulatory strategy. Advise Product, Engineering, Security and executive teams on AI-powered features, data usage, and launches. Lead cross-functional legal workstreams, build scalable review processes, playbooks, and governance frameworks, and support commercial, IP, and operational initiatives to enable rapid, compliant product innovation.

Lead TAR's legal function with primary focus on drafting and negotiating EPC, OEM, MSA, PPA, and customer agreements. Build contract templates and systems, manage outside counsel, handle land/site agreements, support project finance, M&A, disputes, insurance, patents, and clean energy policy issues. Work directly with founders and cross-functional leads to scale a GW-level project pipeline.

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.