Excellent opportunity to join a well structured team of partners and associates with solid deal flow. Noted for work life balance in a collegiate team.

This international law firm would like to hire an associate to join their Singapore office which is a great opportunity to manage smaller deals with excellent training and mentorship together with big ticket transatiosn the firm works on globally.  

Key responsibilities

• Providing practical, commercially focused advice to clients in respect of regulatory matters, cross border and local corporate joint ventures (JV), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), employment, foreign direct investment and commercial transactions
• Acting for commercial organisations on establishing corporate structures, corporate governance and compliance issues
• Providing advice on all types of commercial contracts
• Conducting legal research related to a broad spectrum of corporate transaction areas and preparing advice based on the legal research conducted
• BD and marketing material preparation and attending meetings with clients

Candidate profile

• Singapore qualified, with a corporate background focusing on JV, M&A and general corporate commercial transactions
• Candidates with experience working with a leading Corporate law firm  and / or, a local regulatory insurance firm will be considered
• Willing to be flexible and engage in a wide area of Corporate legal areas
• Excellent attention to detail and able to work with tight timelines
• Proven ability to work as part of a successful team
• Strong research and problem solving skills
• Proven initiative and ability to work independently
• Additional language skills on top of English helpful but not a prerequisite e.g., Mandarin
• Ability to demonstrate an appropriate level of skill and experience in our core areas of competencies, such as:
• Technical excellence
• People and Team
• Client Relationships and Business Development
• Finance and Practice Management and,
• Personal Effectiveness

If you think you meet the above requirements and want more detailed information on the role or are currently looking for a new legal role in Asia not listed on our site, please send your CV in word format to:

kiantong.tan@horizon-recruit.com  

mark.deery@horizon-recruit.com

Or call our office line if you’d like to arrange a confidential discussion on:

• Hong Kong office +852 3978 1369
• Singapore office +65 6808 6635  

Or apply via our website.

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Our Search is Global

Horizon Recruitment is an Asian based legal recruitment agency specializing in the placement of partners, associates and team moves for leading international law firms in Asia. 

We also place candidates for in house counsel and compliance roles at MNCs and global investment banks. 

We search for these candidates globally.  

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