Lawyer, Credit

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization. When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050.

CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney. CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe.

Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

CPP Investments is seeking a talented and energetic lawyer to join our London office. You will be responsible for providing legal advice on investment transactions and asset management across CPP Investments’ credit investment strategies, with a primary focus on European credit and secondary focus on supporting the global credit business. Reporting to Head of Legal, Europe, the successful and exceptional candidate will support a global credit practice and be a member of our global legal team, working closely with other senior lawyers in CPP Investments’ international offices, with investment teams in our Credit Investments Department, and with other partners across the organization.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to work on a variety of complex, leading edge, and high-profile transactions across CPP Investments’ credit investments. The position may also periodically involve travel. If you are a commercially minded lawyer with a global mindset, then please consider joining our team.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Work closely with deal teams to provide strategic, creative, and commercial transaction support and advice across a broad range of credit investment opportunities—including leveraged finance, real estate and infrastructure lending, structured credit, and special situations.
• Engage with deal teams and external counsel on complex deal-specific and institutional-level transactional issues.
• Provide and support training of deal teams and external counsel on institutional, department, group, and deal-specific key transactional considerations.
• Support development and implementation of Credit Investments Department-level policies, procedures, systems and training to support implementation of advice and risk management.
• Support and collaborate with the Legal department enterprise and compliance teams and other partners across the organization in relation to transaction-related matters.
• Anticipate, identify and assist in managing legal risks relating to new investment strategies and activities, and new or changed laws or regulations that impact CPP Investments’ investment strategies.
• Be a key contributor to Legal Department and CPP Investments-wide initiatives and projects.
• Generally assist on other legal matters as they arise.

Qualifications:

• LL.B./LL.M/JD or equivalent required.
• 7-10 years of post-qualification legal experience in leveraged finance, private credit, or structured credit gained at a major law firm or in-house corporate legal department.
• Significant transactional experience with leveraged buyouts, structured financial products and/or direct lending strategies is preferred.
• European and other international experience is a plus.
• MBA, CFA, CA, and/or other relevant industry designations are a plus.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including an ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders and ability to manage external counsel.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Flexibility and adaptability, including off-hours support relating to transactions, international offices and projects.
• Professional conduct reflecting the quality of work, demeanor, ethical values and high standards of CPP Investments.

At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity: In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.