Legal Counsel & Director, Transactions and Operations

Employment: Full-time

Reports to: CEO

Compensation: Competitive base salary and annual performance bonus, together with the opportunity to participate in the economics of select transactions based on performance and tenure.

Company Description

Group Lande is a real estate investment company focused on acquiring commercial properties across Canada and the United States. Our success comes from building strong relationships, understanding and managing risk, pursuing overlooked opportunities and finding straightforward, creative solutions to complex problems.

Role

Serve as the CEO’s right-hand person and manage the company’s day-to-day execution. Take ownership of legal matters, transactions, corporate administration, professional coordination and property-management oversight, allowing the CEO to focus on acquisitions, negotiations, strategy and key relationships. This is a hands-on role in a lean organization.

The successful candidate will complete work directly, follow up until matters are resolved and bring the CEO clear findings, recommendations and decisions.

Responsibilities

1. Legal and Transactional Responsibilities

- Transaction Documents: Draft and revise letters of intent, offers, purchase agreements, leases, amendments, waivers, notices, NDAs, brokerage agreements, partnership agreements, joint-venture agreements and related documents. Maintain company templates and precedents.
- Contract Review: Review transaction and commercial agreements for legal and business risks and recommend revisions.
- Cross-Jurisdiction Drafting: Adapt company templates into initial drafts for transactions in other provinces and states and coordinate local counsel where required.
- Transaction Execution: Manage transactions from offer through closing. Maintain checklists and track deposits, conditions, deadlines, extensions, approvals and deliverables.
- Due Diligence: Order, coordinate and review title, zoning, building, tax, compliance, financial, environmental, engineering, insurance and other required searches and reports.
- Data Rooms: Build and maintain acquisition, financing, partnership and corporate data rooms.
- Financing Coordination: Coordinate lender and bank requirements, including corporate documents, resolutions, organizational charts, financial information, insurance, KYC materials and closing deliverables.
- Analysis and Reporting: Review due-diligence materials, including leases and third-party reports,



identify material issues and provide findings and recommendations to the CEO.
- Closing and Post-Closing: Prepare, coordinate and review closing documents, statements of adjustments and other deliverables. Complete post-closing matters and maintain final transaction records.
- Professional Coordination: Manage brokers, consultants, accountants, partners, vendors, title companies and outside counsel. Define assignments and monitor deadlines, work product and costs.

2. Corporate and Administrative Operations

- Corporate Governance: Determine and prepare required director and shareholder resolutions for acquisitions, financings, guarantees, banking arrangements, signing authorities and other corporate actions.
- Corporate Records and Compliance: Maintain minute books, ownership records, organizational charts, entity information, government accounts, registered addresses, signing authorities and authorized representatives. Coordinate annual filings, resolutions and other corporate requirements.
- Accounting Oversight: Ensure bookkeeping is current and complete. Review bank and credit-card reconciliations, intercompany balances and outstanding accounting items.
- Banking Review: Review bank and credit-card statements for unusual, unsupported or inconsistent transactions.
- Receipts, Payments and Expenses: Ensure supporting documents for material company and transaction expenditures are collected and properly recorded. Track professional fees, transaction expenses, deposits, accounts payable and other material payments. Prepare payments for approval.
- Service Providers and Deadlines: Coordinate bookkeepers, accountants, banks, insurers and other service providers. Monitor assignments, costs, filings, renewals and deadlines.
- Executive Support: Conduct research, obtain required information, schedule meetings and travel, coordinate document execution and complete administrative follow-ups for the CEO.
- Recruitment and Continuity: Recruit and onboard property managers, employees and service providers when required. Manage active matters when the CEO is travelling or unavailable.

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Asset Oversight This role monitors third-party property managers and ensures follow-through; it does not perform day-to-day property management.

- Property Onboarding: Ensure property managers receive the records, access and information required to onboard newly acquired properties.
- Monthly Reporting: Obtain monthly reports and maintain a summary of vacancies, leasing activity, rent collection, arrears, repairs, capital work and material issues and review them with the CEO.
- Deadlines and Payments: Track property taxes, insurance premiums and other material property-level obligations and confirm they are completed or paid when due.
- Outstanding Matters: Maintain a schedule & an outstanding-items list for each property and follow up with property managers until completion.
- Performance and Escalation: Identify missing reports, missed deadlines, unresolved matters and inadequate performance. Report material issues to the CEO with the relevant facts and required decisions.
- Putting out fires: Become directly involved when required to address an urgent or escalated issue.

Weekly CEO Report Provide a concise weekly report covering accomplishments, decisions required, outstanding items, critical dates, active transactions, existing properties, accounting, legal and corporate matters, outside professionals and upcoming priorities.

Qualifications

- Member in good standing of the Barreau du Québec. Experience with Ontario commercial real estate transactions is an asset.
- Three to five years of commercial real estate and corporate law experience, including regularly acting as the primary lawyer responsible for drafting and negotiating complex agreements with minimal supervision.
- Substantial experience drafting and negotiating commercial real estate purchase agreements, leases, partnership agreements and joint-venture agreements.
- Experience with title and off-title searches, due diligence, financing and commercial real estate closings.
- Experience preparing corporate resolutions and maintaining corporate records.
- Ability to review bank statements, reconciliations and accounting records for missing or inconsistent information.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and French.
- Strong legal and financial judgment, exceptional organization and attention to detail, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple deadlines and personally handle both legal and administrative work.

📌 Legal Counsel & Director of Transactions and Operations (Montreal)
🏢 Group Lande
📍 Montreal