Responsibilities
- Advising executive, senior management and board on various legal matters.
- Ensuring all members of the legal team work efficiently.
- Helping to draft, vet and negotiate contracts, and regular review of all contracts, legal documents and templates to ensure they are up-to-date and compliant with applicable statutory laws.
- Maintaining knowledge of organisation’s legal documents.
- Advising on the legal implications of company policies and procedures
- Identifying and mitigating legal risks.
- Conducting legal research and reviewing company's litigation strategy in response to any legal actions.
- Oversee creation and management of directives of corporate acts and decisions, often through external company secretaries.
- Managing and liaising with outside counsel regarding their assignments.
- Ensuring all company trademark registrations are up to date.
- Reporting on legal activities, risks and litigation.
Requirements
- Ability to multitask and prioritise workload;
- Excellent interpersonal and (English) communication skills across different audiences and stakeholder management, (including virtually and remotely with other office locations;
- Good understanding of business sensitivities and confidentiality;
- Possess a qualifying law degree (e.g. LLB, JD, ideally from common law jurisdiction), but need not be locally qualified to practise;
- Experienced legal counsel (ideally 7+ years PQE or in-house) with a sound overall legal knowledge and attention to detail;
- Experience in the insurance industry is a plus.
NOTE: This is a 6 months contract role
Start Date of Job
Immediate
Salary
to be advised
Location
Raffles Place, Singapore