Senior Legal Counsel
About the Client
Our client is a large privately-held multinational group with a diversified portfolio of industrial and investment interests spanning multiple regions. Headquartered in Singapore the group operates through a network of subsidiaries and joint ventures globally with a lean but highly capable in-house legal function supporting corporate transactional and governance matters across the business. Due to the confidential nature of this search further details on the organisation will be shared with shortlisted candidates.
About the Role
Were looking for a senior commercially-minded corporate lawyer with genuine hands-on project financing experience to join this high-calibre legal team. This is a role for someone who has personally led financing transactions not just reviewed them and wants to sit close to the business with real influence over how deals and governance decisions get made.
Youll act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders with project and structured financing as a core pillar of your remit alongside joint ventures M&A and strategic initiatives central to the groups growth agenda.
What Youll Be Working On
- Leading complex financing transactions structuring negotiating and closing project and asset-level financing working directly with lenders sponsors and internal commercial teams as the lead lawyer not a supporting reviewer
- Leading joint ventures and strategic partnerships across multiple jurisdictions from structuring through full lifecycle management
- Advising on JV governance: board structures minority protections reserved matters deadlock mechanisms
- Running end-to-end M&A transactions including acquisitions divestments and strategic investments
- Building and embedding governance frameworks and standards across entities and regions
Why Youll Love This Role
- Genuine ownership of financing transactions from term sheet to close not a support function
- Senior visible position with real influence over business and investment decisions
- Exposure to complex cross-border transactions rather than routine legal work
- Broad mandate spanning financing JVs M&A and governance not a narrow specialism
- Collaborative high-calibre team with strong access to senior decision-makers
What Were Looking For
- Qualified lawyer with strong academic credentials
- Typically 15 years PQE from top-tier law firms and/or senior in-house roles
- Demonstrated hands-on project/structured financing experience as lead counsel this is a hard requirement; candidates who have only reviewed or supported financing deals (without leading them) will not be a fit
- Strong parallel experience in joint ventures and M&A
- Exposure to large-scale asset-heavy or capital-intensive sectors
- Proven international multi-jurisdictional deal experience
- Commercially pragmatic confident operating with and influencing senior stakeholders
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1