Purpose. Performance. People.

Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians. With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets. Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide.

For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance. Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.

Role Summary

The Director, Legal, engages directly with senior leadership and business units to partner and provide strategic advice enabling CPP Investments to navigate, understand, and comply with legal and regulatory requirements consistent with our Guiding Principles and our investment mandate.

Team Description

The successful candidate will report to a Managing Director in Investment Legal, will be a member of our global Investment Legal team and will work closely with other senior lawyers in CPP Investments’ international offices, with the investment teams and with other partners across the organization. The position may periodically involve travel.

The ideal candidate is a commercially minded transactional lawyer with broad international private markets experience and strong legal judgment. They are likely to come from a generalist M&A or private equity background, but could also have focused on credit, infrastructure, real assets or investment funds. They must be intellectually flexible and able to reason across unfamiliar structures from first principles. They should be comfortable operating independently, advising senior stakeholders, managing and critically engaging with external counsel, and making practical recommendations in circumstances where the answer is not obvious and the facts are still developing.

Accountabilities & Qualifications

Accountabilities

• Lead and provide senior-level legal advice on transactions and asset management matters, including structuring, negotiation strategy, review of investment recommendations, governance considerations, regulatory issues and risk allocation, within the scope of CPP Investments’ legal services model
• Work with all of CPP Investments’ strategies in Europe across Real Assets, Private Equity and Credit Investments, with Real Assets expected to represent the majority of the role
• Apply legal and commercial judgment across complex private markets transactions, including consortium and co-investment arrangements and fund/sponsor dynamics, and understand quickly how equity, debt, downside protection, control rights, security, enforcement, governance, regulatory and exit considerations interact across direct and fund investments
• Engage with external counsel as a constructive peer on both deal-specific and institutional-level transactional and asset management issues
• Provide advice and support on investment-related projects with Group- or Department-level impacts
• 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
• Contribute to Legal Department and CPP Investments-wide initiatives, including policies, procedures, systems, training and cross-functional projects relevant to investment activities