Legal Counsel Corporate Governance and Regulatory
Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.
About Cohere
Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will support global entity governance, restructurings, intercompany arrangements, regulatory reviews, and trade-compliance matters. You will coordinate internal stakeholders and external counsel, translate specialist advice into practical actions, and develop scalable approaches for cross-border legal work.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer
- 4–8 years of relevant legal experience
- Corporate governance
- Entity structuring
- Intercompany arrangements
- Cross-border regulatory matters
- Foreign investment screening
- National-security reviews
- Export controls
- Sanctions
- International trade
- Corporate compliance
- Multi-jurisdictional legal work
- Legal communication
Responsibilities
- Support corporate governance, entity establishment, restructuring, and ongoing entity maintenance
- Support intercompany agreements and cross-border operating arrangements
- Support foreign-investment screening, national-security reviews, regulatory diligence, and filing coordination
- Support export-control, sanctions, and compliance matters
- Support legal and regulatory work for public-sector and regulated-market opportunities
- Coordinate internal stakeholders and external counsel across jurisdictions
- Develop practical and scalable approaches for cross-border legal work
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
- Health and dental benefits
- Mental health budget
- RRSP matching
- 401K
- Pension Scheme
- Parental leave top-up for up to 6 months
- Arts and culture benefit
- Fitness and wellness benefit
- Workspace improvement credit
- Education and learning stipend
- 6 weeks of paid vacation
- Budget for travel to other offices
- Annual company offsite
- Daily lunch program for office workers
- Snacks for office workers
- Community and social events for office workers
- Co-working benefit
- $500 home office stipend