
Legal Counsel - Industrial Leasing and Operations
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Working with regional portfolio management and leasing teams, draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial leasing documents and operational contracts, including offers to lease, leases, amendments, assignments, terminations, NDA’s, and service contracts.
- Provide strategic legal advice and support to internal stakeholders on leasing matters, operational matters and related real estate issues.
- Manage lease-related disputes and liaise with external counsel as needed.
- Delivery of efficient and effective legal advice and support of Dream’s management team.
- Support legal due diligence and leasing aspects of acquisitions, dispositions, secured financings and development projects.
- Maintain and update lease templates and legal precedents;
- Manage and mentor regional lease documentation teams and coordinate with internal European legal counsel.
- Strong people skills. You are a team player with an ability to build relationships at all levels of an organization.
- Strong communication skills. You write clearly, you speak with kindness and respect, your team understand your expectations.
- Responsiveness. You can anticipate needs, commit to respond as agreed, but really, you want to over-deliver!
- Innovator. You are respectful of current operating processes, but look to develop new ideas to bring better results.
- Deliver on commitments. You set clear goals and objectives, and then you deliver.
- Strong business acumen. You apply your technical skills in a pragmatic manner to assist the leasing and portfolio management teams in achieving positive business results.
- 5+ years of commercial real estate experience at a Canadian public company and/or major law firm;
- A law degree from a recognized university and member of the Ontario Bar in good standing;
- Highly focused with attention to detail;
- Superior verbal and written communication skills;
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities;
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with experience resolving complex problems; and
- Superior organizational and time management skills.