Legal Assistant

TerrAscend Corp. is a leading TSX-listed company with operations across North America, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, and California through TerrAscend Growth Corp., as well as retail operations in Canada.
TerrAscend operates The Apothecarium and other dispensary retail locations, along with scaled cultivation, processing, and manufacturing facilities across its core markets. Our portfolio includes well-known brands such as The Apothecarium, Cookies, Kind Tree, Legend, State Flower, Wana, Cuue, One, and Valhalla.

The Legal Assistant will be a detail-oriented and proactive support to our Legal team, with a particular focus on contract management, legal operations, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) support and administrative support. This role works closely with the Associate General Counsel to help manage the contract lifecycle, assist with legal operations, administrative items, and maintain the organization and integrity of legal records. The ideal candidate is highly organized, enthusiastic, discreet with confidential information, and comfortable working in a fast-paced legal environment.

Why TerrAscend?
Join a growing, fast-paced organization where your work makes an impact. At TerrAscend, you'll have opportunities to grow your career, collaborate with talented teams, and help shape what's next as our business continues to evolve.

Remote Work Location Eligibility:
TerrAscend currently hires remote employees in CT, DE, FL, GA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, and WV. Candidates must reside and work in an approved state. Eligibility varies by role and is subject to change.

Responsibilities
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Support corporate governance processes, including management of content, calendars and matters arising out of any Board of Directors and Board Committee efforts.

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Manage the annual calendar for the Board of Directors and pre-emptively prepare for any upcoming meetings or matters.

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Maintain Diligent, the board of directors’ central resource for meeting information.

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Management, organization, and maintenance of corporate and subsidiary records.

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Assist with entity formation, state registrations and filings and day-to-day maintenance of U.S. and international subsidiaries, including managing annual compliance with outside counsel and service providers, updating entity management platform, and assisting with execution of documents needed to maintain TerrAscend’s subsidiaries.

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Responsibility to prepare and manage Company’s entity organization chart.

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O versee auditor requests with regard to quarterly audits and other special matters, in addition to internal audit requirements, related to corporate governance .

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Assist with implementing and maintaining compliance related policies and processes.

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Work with other members of the legal team to drive progress on cross-functional projects while looking for opportunities to improve processes to help the company scale and become more efficient.

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Respond to requests for information as needed including assisting company personnel with information or other data from the legal department, and assist auditors, outside counsel, regulatory agencies and others as required with information from corporate and legal files and minute books.

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Assist with the preparation and review of Section 16 and other SEC filings, including Form 4s

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Assist the Senior Counsel with drafting, distributing, and tracking Directors and Officers (D&O) questionnaires in preparation for the proxy.

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Attend to notarization and legalization of corporate documents in the U.S.

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Assist with various equity-related matters and documentation.

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Assist with collecting documents for corporate insurance renewal.

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Discreetly handle confidential information and maintain complete confidentiality at all times

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Act as a liaison with other departments, including senior management team, department heads, facility directors, and other corporate staff, to provide legal documents and agreements and to obtain from/ furnish to government agencies information, data and forms

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Provide some administrative support to the Legal department .

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Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience
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Bachelor's Degree required .

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Paralegal Degree or experience working as a paralegal in a large law firm or in-house corporate law department.

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At least 4 years of paralegal experience including project and operations management, strong qualitative, analytical, and communication skills in an administrative or operations position involving legal or compliance.

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Prior experience in entity maintenance and governance required.

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Knowledge and experience in Board of Directors engagement, including past corporate secretarial experience preferred.

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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint; SharePoint; database (Access, etc.); Diligent.

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Strong interpersonal communication and customer service skills with the ability to effectively work with staff at all levels of the organization.