High Tide Inc., the fast paced, growing, and highly successful cannabis retail is seeking a Legal Assistant for our Calgary corporate office. This is a critical role in High Tide’s continued success and growth.  

As a Legal Assistant, you will work closely within our Legal Department. The ideal candidate will have a strong background supporting law, great organizational skills, excellent attention to detail and a passion for the legal profession. The Legal Assistant maintains confidentiality and professionally interacts with management, internal and external stakeholders.

Specific Responsibilities:

The role is accountable for the following:

• Being the support for the Legal and Compliance team
• Establishing, implementing, and improving existing workflows and administrative procedures.
• Supporting public company M&A transactions and financing transactions.
• Participating in structuring and restructuring transactions, including organization of new corporations and partnerships, ownership changes and corporate group restructuring.
• Collaborating with external law firms in all jurisdictions where the company operates.
• Developing and maintaining processes and systems, including updates for new technology.
• Innovative ideas to improve processes and policies.
• Managing our insurance portfolio.
• Develop relationships with vendors and suppliers.
• Day to day administrative tasks such as organizing department records.
• Assist with other duties as required.

You will be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Minimum 5 years of corporate commercial law experience.
• Post-secondary education with a legal assistant designation.
• Excellent organizational, time management, interpersonal, and communication (oral and written) skills.
• Collaborator/team player.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Able to prioritize work.
• Exceptional proofreading skills.
• Strong computer skills including MS Office Suite.

The job posting reflects the general details considered necessary to describe the principal functions and duties as required for proper evaluation of the job. There may be additional duties, responsibilities, and qualifications for this job.

 We thank all applicants in advance for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.  

 About Us:

High Tide Inc. is the leading community-grown, retail-forward cannabis enterprise engineered to unleash the full value of the world's most powerful plant. High Tide (HITI) is uniquely built around the cannabis consumer, with wholly diversified and fully integrated operations across all components of cannabis, including:

Bricks & Mortar Retail: Canna Cabana™ is the largest non-franchised cannabis retail chain in Canada, with 162 current locations spanning British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario and growing. In 2021, Canna Cabana became the first cannabis discount club retailer in Canada.

Retail Innovation: Fastendr™ is a unique and fully automated technology that integrates retail kiosks and smart lockers to facilitate a better buying experience through browsing, ordering and pickup.

E-commerce Platforms: High Tide operates a suite of leading accessory sites across the world, including Grasscity.com, Smokecartel.com, Dailyhighclub.com, and Dankstop.com.

High Tide consistently moves ahead of the currents, having been named one of Canada's Top Growing Companies in 2021, 2022 and 2023 by the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine and was ranked number one in the retail category on the Financial Times list of Americas' Fastest Growing Companies for 2023. To discover the full impact of High Tide, visit www.hightideinc.com. 

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