Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Toronto

Provides strategic legal advice on technology contracting, outsourcing, third-party risk, emerging technologies, and financial services products. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates technology vendor, software licensing, consulting, service provider, and customer development agreements. Advises on contract operations and legal risk, partners with business units, mentors junior lawyers, and supports knowledge management. The role requires practical judgment in a fast-paced payments and financial technology environment.

Provides legal support to global Procurement by drafting and negotiating high-value third-party agreements, advising stakeholders on contracting risks, and maintaining procurement legal processes, playbooks, templates, and training. The role addresses data privacy, security, AI, intellectual property, technology contracting, and vendor risk while leveraging automation and contract lifecycle management tools.

Provides legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, and reputational-risk advice for a financial services organization. The role supports regulatory engagement, compliance reporting, training, privacy impact assessments, incident investigations, policy governance, and risk mitigation. It collaborates with stakeholders across Canadian business lines and promotes ethical conduct and continuous improvement of compliance processes. This is an 18- to 24-month temporary position requiring bilingual French and English communication and membership in the Quebec or Ontario bar.

Senior corporate securities counsel supporting SEC reporting, proxy statements, securities compliance, capital markets, securitizations, debt financings, and treasury transactions. The role advises executives and cross-functional partners, negotiates transaction documents, manages outside counsel, oversees financing subsidiary governance, and improves legal processes through scalable templates, controls, and playbooks.

Provides legal counsel on commercial and technology contracts, intellectual property, government contracting, export controls, privacy, data governance, information security, and corporate compliance. Drafts policies, supports proposals and funding agreements, advises cross-functional teams, negotiates contracts, and develops scalable legal operations for space technology programs.

Supports international legal operations across LATAM, including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, legal and regulatory research, litigation support, corporate housekeeping, compliance projects, certification processes, and regulator communications. Maintains contract repositories and legal libraries, tracks deadlines and certifications, coordinates with external counsel, testing laboratories, vendors, and regulators, and prepares reports for leadership. Requires a law degree, active bar membership, fluent English and Spanish, strong organization, and attention to detail.

Legal Counsel will advise on commercial contracts, privacy, AI governance, employment, and corporate matters for a hardware-enabled SaaS business. Responsibilities include negotiating enterprise agreements, supporting Canadian, US, and EU privacy compliance, managing privacy incidents and AI governance, advising on employment law, managing outside counsel, and creating scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and self-service tools. The role requires autonomous cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Finance, HR, Product, and Engineering.

Provides legal counsel to North American offices on international commercial contracts, leases, M&A, corporate governance, compliance, vendor due diligence, ethics, privacy, and expansion initiatives. Drafts and negotiates MSAs, RFPs, NDAs, and other transactional agreements; supports new office openings and joint ventures; advises on conflicts and client onboarding requirements; and collaborates with global legal and corporate teams.

Provides legal advice and transaction support for project, infrastructure, acquisition, and structured finance. Drafts and negotiates complex financing and security documents, advises on risk allocation and lender protections, manages due diligence, supervises external counsel, and supports syndicated transactions. The role also develops legal precedents, processes, training, and guidance while helping establish FCC’s Project Finance business line.

Provides legal counsel on construction and corporate matters, including reviewing and drafting contracts, negotiating agreements, advising on major project structures and joint ventures, and managing litigation. The role supports risk mitigation across projects in Canada, the United States, and Bermuda. Candidates need corporate legal and construction law experience, travel availability, and legal authorization to work in Canada. French-English bilingual ability is preferred.

Provides commercial and corporate legal counsel across Canada, the United States, and global operations. Responsibilities include negotiating contracts, advising on fintech regulatory matters, supporting product launches and market expansion, managing corporate governance, resolving disputes, overseeing external counsel, and preparing legal procedures and training materials.

Provides legal advice and negotiates agreements supporting venture capital, growth equity, private equity, and strategic investment transactions. Collaborates with internal teams, coordinates external counsel, researches legal issues, and delivers coaching and business-oriented guidance. The role requires strong transactional law expertise, negotiation, judgment, analytical skills, and the ability to manage multiple complex files. Bilingual English and French capability is an asset.

Provides senior legal advice on Canadian securities regulation, prospectus offerings, exempt market activities, disclosure filings, discretionary relief, and emerging regulatory issues. Leads complex policy, legislative, and regulatory initiatives; drafts securities law instruments; negotiates with regulators and market participants; represents the OSC on committees; and advises stakeholders on capital markets matters.

Supports the General Counsel with commercial contract review, drafting, redlining, negotiations, contract pipeline management, repository administration, legal research, compliance inquiries, employment documentation, outside counsel coordination, legal holds, and stakeholder education. The role focuses on improving contract turnaround, reducing legal risks and outside counsel costs, and supporting sales, finance, HR, and international commercial operations.

The Legal Counsel, Commercial will negotiate customer, procurement, partnership, reseller, distributor, product, and vendor agreements. The role advises go-to-market, procurement, product, privacy, and partnership teams on commercial, privacy, data protection, and AI-related legal issues. Responsibilities include drafting agreements, supporting deal execution, developing playbooks and templates, counseling on product launches, improving legal workflows with AI tools, and handling bespoke commercial matters in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Provides legal counsel for Waymo’s Canadian operations, advising on negotiations, advocacy, disputes, regulatory changes, compliance, governance, and business strategy. The role partners with public policy, regulatory, product, communications, and operations teams; engages Canadian regulators and authorities; supports global legal initiatives; and develops expertise in emerging Canadian legal issues affecting autonomous driving and ride-hailing services.

Legal Counsel will support mergers and acquisitions, draft and negotiate software and corporate agreements, manage contractual disputes, advise on data privacy and security matters, oversee outside counsel, and support corporate development. The role requires independent judgment, strong communication, organization, risk assessment, and the ability to manage complex transactions in a fast-paced software technology environment.

Senior Legal Counsel will advise leaders across multiple jurisdictions on employment law, workplace policies, agreements, accommodations, terminations, and compliance. The role will develop legal frameworks and templates, assess employment risk, support commercial contracting and vendor negotiations, and manage external counsel. It also provides guidance on general corporate matters while partnering with People Practices, Finance, Operations, and Legal teams.

Provides corporate and commercial legal counsel to Canadian business departments and the General Counsel. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, advising on privacy, compliance, provincial and federal EV regulations, managing customer disputes, supporting litigation and corporate records, overseeing registrations and licenses, and coordinating with global legal teams. The role also supports policy training, trade association representation, and legal initiatives in a fast-paced automotive environment.

Provides strategic legal counsel to insurance business units on product development, rate filings, distribution, regulatory compliance, market conduct, technology initiatives, intellectual property, marketing, and advertising. Conducts complex legal research, advises on regulatory changes, supports inquiries, liaises with regulators, and participates in industry associations. Requires Canadian legal qualifications, provincial bar membership, and at least five years of insurance or corporate law experience.

The Legal Counsel will provide legal support, draft contracts, advise on legal issues, and manage correspondence with the headquarters in China, maintaining compliance and risk management.

Provides legal counsel for Canadian structured finance and securitization transactions. Reviews transaction documentation, identifies legal and reputational risks affecting credit ratings, advises analysts and rating committees on legal issues and methodology exceptions, communicates with issuers and advisors, supports policies and procedures, and monitors legislative and case law developments. Requires expertise in secured lending and corporate commercial law, with Canadian insolvency and securitization experience beneficial.

Serves as lead legal advisor on complex commercial, regulatory, real estate, privacy, corporate governance, litigation, and M&A matters. Drafts and negotiates agreements, advises senior leaders on legal risk, manages investigations and regulatory inquiries, supports policies and training, leads cross-functional initiatives, and supervises internal and external legal resources. The role is hybrid with four days onsite in Richmond Hill.

Provides legal and regulatory advice on capital markets litigation, financial services products, policies, and initiatives. Advises senior leaders, manages complex and confidential matters, instructs external counsel, assesses legal risks, negotiates resolutions, ensures compliance, and serves as a subject matter expert across global stakeholders.

Provides corporate and commercial legal counsel across contracts, governance, regulatory compliance, privacy, risk management, real estate, marketing, employment, and litigation. Drafts and negotiates agreements, advises cross-functional teams, supports corporate governance and investigations, manages external counsel, leads legal projects, and mentors junior associates.