Manager, Legal

About Four Seasons :

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location :

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

The Manager, Legal is a law clerk that is responsible for partnering with Four Seasons’ (FS) Legal and Finance teams to support and manage the overall corporate subsidiaries creation and maintenance process in the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region (the “EMEA Region”). In addition, they will be involved with general legal administration and recordkeeping in respect of the EMEA Region.

Key Activities

Corporate Subsidiary Creation and Maintenance in the EMEA Region

Assist outside counsel and other FS departments with the incorporation of new FS subsidiaries

Support with branch creation

Organize and maintain the corporate legal records and corporate charts of FS related entities in the EMEA Region

Oversee the annual maintenance of items such as, but not limited to annual corporate filings for entities in the EMEA Region

Support KYC requests with the creation of corporate charts and certificates

Maintain EMB database including, but not limited to tracking the database’s status and information for the company and its subsidiaries

Support with dissolutions, wind-ups, reorganizations as directed by the Finance / Tax teams

Prepare annual resolutions, resolutions for changes of Officers and Directors, and other corporate resolutions as requested from time to time

Work with local law firms and corporate services firms around the world as needed in connection with the foregoing

General Legal Administration in the EMEA Region

Assist with the ongoing maintenance or co-ordination of liquor and spa licenses and / or renewals held by FS Properties or its Officers

Maintain records and ensure the safekeeping of FS negotiable instruments

Other duties as required

Filing / Record Keeping / Minute Books for the EMEA Region

Organize and maintain files and documents

Education & Experience

Relevant University Degree or College Diploma

5+ years of Law Clerk experience in a major law firm, corporate services firm, or public company

Key Competencies

Knowledge of various corporate processes

Knowledge of procedures of incorporation and organization of companies and various jurisdiction requirements / laws in corporate law

Legal data base creation and maintenance

Legal document drafting skills

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-Hybrid

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