Junior Regional Counsel, Asia Pacific (including China)

Overview

Job Title : Junior Regional Counsel, Asia Pacific (including China)

Location : Professional

Job Type : Permanent

Responsibilities

• Able to support senior counsels in providing legal advice on a diverse range of matters in particular relating to commercial and contractual, employment, privacy, intellectual property, real estate issues across the business and operations for 12 APAC countries (including China).
• Able to support senior counsel in working autonomously and independently with key business stakeholder relationships across APAC (including China).
• Able to support senior counsel and assisting in the development of the business and collaborating with other members of the legal & compliance team and regional management team to develop and deliver key legal & compliance functions and outcomes;
• Able to assist in developing relationships, processes and procedures across 12 APAC countries (including China) to provide efficient and effective legal services to the respective business teams through the identification and management of risk;
• Drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising of a range of commercial agreements with our customers, vendors and suppliers;
• Able to support and assist the business to resolving any contractual dispute, administrative actions, with our customers and suppliers and any non-compliance with relevant government authorities and provide support in disputes, regulatory actions, legal notices across 12 APAC countries (including China);
• Able to assist in corporate secretarial service support with the assistance of external legal and corporate secretarial service provider;
• Providing support and assisting in any legal & compliance project either regionally or globally;
• Able to support in providing legal & compliance trainings to the business and operations across 12 APAC countries;
• Regularly monitor legal updates (cases, legislation, regulations, media releases from relevant authorities and regulators) and ensure stakeholders and regularly updated on all relevant matters;
• Providing support to Corporate Counsel & Head of Legal & Compliance, APAC on any matter as may be instructed by him;
• Establish good working relations with external law firms supporting the PSA BDP Group in APAC;
• Extending support in managing compliance issues where necessary across 12 APAC countries.

Qualifications

This role reports to the Corporate Counsel & Head of Legal & Compliance, APAC, based in Singapore.

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