Senior Corporate Counsel: Disputes, Capital Markets, & Strategic Initiatives

The Senior Legal Counsel will support the full remit of the Global Head across three areas: the global disputes portfolio, financing and capital markets activity, and legal delivery on the company's high-profile strategic programs.

This is a senior individual contributor role. The postholder owns assigned matters end-to-end — including direct instruction of external counsel and direct engagement with business stakeholders.

Responsibilties

Disputes

• Assist on assigned litigation, arbitration, and pre-contentious matters from intake through resolution: fact development, document collection, witness preparation, and management of instructed counsel
• Prepare matter assessments, exposure analysis, and reserve recommendations for review by the Global Head
• Draft and negotiate settlement documentation; manage litigation holds and disclosure obligations
• Track matter budgets and external counsel performance; flag variances early

Capital Markets

• Support debt financing and refinancing workstreams: review and mark up credit agreements, amendments, security and guarantee documents; manage condition-precedent and closing checklists
• Coordinate legal diligence across jurisdictions and functions; consolidate responses to lender enquiries

Strategic Initiatives

• Act as embedded legal support on assigned strategic and transformation programs; attend workstream meetings and translate program decisions into legal requirements
• Coordinate specialist input (commercial, corporate, employment, privacy, regulatory) and consolidate it into a single position for the business
• Maintain the legal issues and dependencies log for assigned programs, escalating blockers with a recommended path
• Produce first-draft governance, approval, and risk materials for program steering committees

• Qualified lawyer with 6–10 years' post-qualification experience, in-house or in practice
• Strong transactional grounding: drafting and negotiating commercial and/or finance documentation, running deal workstreams to fixed deadlines, and coordinating diligence across multiple parties and jurisdictions
• Track record of owning complex matters end-to-end with competing stakeholders and immovable dates
• Experience acting for or within a multinational business, including work spanning more than one jurisdiction
• Confident instructing or working alongside specialist advisers, and consolidating their input into a single clear recommendation
• Analytical rigor in assessing risk and exposure, with the judgment to present options and a recommendation rather than escalate open questions
• Strong written work product — able to produce material that goes to senior leadership with light editing
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities across three distinct workstreams
• Sound judgment about what to escalate and when

What We’re Offering

• Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• RRSP with company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.