Legal Intern - #184346

Summary:

Interns may fulfill a range of entry level roles e.g. Business Support Administrator, Client Training Support Assistant, Communications Assistant. In some countries, non-graduate trainees include Apprentices. Apprenticeships includes vocational education and training and is organized in a dual form that combines enterprise based vocation education and training with school-based vocational education.

About the role:

• Securities – Oversee compliance with applicable Canadian and U.S. securities and stock exchange requirements. Draft and coordinate continuous disclosure filings as well as prospectuses and registration statements. Assist with earnings releases, executive presentations, news releases, fact books and employee announcements.
• Corporate Governance – Assist with preparation of board of directors and related committee materials. Draft and revise corporate policies and procedures to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.
• Treasury/Finance – Assist with legal aspects of public debt offerings and redemptions, banking/credit facility matters, share buyback program and other treasury matters.
• HR/Benefits – Draft and provide other legal support for incentive/equity compensation plans and agreements.
• Tax - Assist with legal analyses and documentation related to intercompany restructurings, intercompany agreements and corporate housekeeping matters.
• M&A – Assist with M&A transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures and minority investments.
• Other - Help with Legal Department special projects and initiatives; manage outside counsel involved in certain transactions and projects; other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

About You:

• Legal background
• Eligible for 4 months internship
  
  
  

What’s in it For You?

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. We offer an enriched internship program that focuses on developing your skills while gaining access to a network of peers and leaders across our global organization. Bringing your whole self to work is at our core. Here’s how we support your growth:

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: We offer interns volunteer opportunities to make an impact in the community.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
  
  
  

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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