Senior Corporate Counsel / Corporate Counsel, Toronto

Company Description

The FOG Software Group (FOG) acquires, manages, and builds specific software businesses in a variety of vertical markets, enabling them to be clear leaders in their industries. We buy and hold forever. Our companies provide mission-critical enterprise solutions for vertical industries across the entire value chain.

As an operating group of Vela Software Group (Vela), FOG is focused on strengthening businesses within the global markets in which we compete and enabling them to grow – whether through organic measures such as internal innovation initiatives and product development or through the acquisition of new assets and businesses.

Vela is a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. (), listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Constellation Software is a conglomerate of vertical market software companies and has completed over 1000 acquisitions since inception in 1995.

Role Description

FOG is looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel / Corporate Counsel (the "Position") who will be an integral member of the FOG legal team. The Position will be responsible for supporting the legal needs of FOG generally (i.e. for all business units comprising the FOG portfolio of companies), each comprised of several unique businesses covering a broad range of jurisdictions, but primarily North America, UK and Europe, on a variety of commercial and transactional matters across these portfolios. In the Position, you will work closely with members of the senior management team within each sub-portfolio of FOG. The successful candidate will report to the head of legal at FOG and will also work closely with the FOG legal team in executing M&A transactions and other duties.

Office location is in Toronto (near Spadina and Adelaide), and the Position would be required to be in the office at least 2-3 days per week, though this may be reduced over time. For the right candidate, we would consider a fully remote work environment; as such, this person could be based anywhere in Canada. If you feel you are that candidate, please apply.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide a full suite of legal advisory services to the portfolios, including the review and negotiations of a broad range of commercial contracts on behalf of various internal lines of business, such as technology and intellectual property licensing, SaaS, hosting, cloud, professional services, support services and service level agreements, consulting services, leases, purchasing, distribution, reseller, revenue share among others.
• Support (and pretty quickly start to lead) corporate acquisitions by participating in or coordinating due diligence and integration activities in conjunction with the Corporate Counsel, General Counsel and FOG's M&A deal team.
• Negotiate and draft M&A transaction documents.
• Facilitate legal entity management and corporate governance related issues and work closely with other regional legal experts who provide legal entity support.
• Develop, draft and implement appropriate corporate compliance policies and processes.
• Work with business lines to develop and maintain standard form agreements for products and services offered by the company in support of pivotal initiatives and in the ordinary course.
• Work effectively with external counsel.
• Assist where needed on other legal matters from time to time.

Qualifications

• Qualified legal professional with at least 5 years of relevant legal working experience.
• Admission to practice law in Canada or the U.S.
• Knowledge and experience in drafting, negotiating, structuring and advising on private M&A, and various types of commercial contracts and other transactions, in particular, relating to software licensing and related services.
• Good overall understanding of intellectual property law and other technology-related legal principles is an asset.
• Outstanding critical thinking skills, integrity and written and verbal communication, negotiation and drafting skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Team oriented and able to establish relationships with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to self-manage.

Also, we know it's tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don't have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.

FOG has an accommodation process in place and provides accommodations for job applicants with disabilities as appropriate. Assessment and selection materials and procedures can be made available in accessible formats and methods as appropriate. If you require a specific accommodation because of disability or medical need, please let us know when selected to take part in our recruitment process so that reasonable arrangements can be made for the appropriate accommodations to be in place as you move through our process.

We thank you for your interest in working for FOG. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.