Our client is a leading global professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, technology and operations for clients across all industries.  This is an exciting regional in house opportunity for a mid-senior commercial lawyer to join an agile, innovative and dynamic legal team based in Singapore to support the business and its clients in S.E. Asia.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior contracting professionals.
• Stay abreast of contracting developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s contracting practices
• Educate company executives with respect to contracting and risk management issues
• Represent the company’s interests and interface directly with client negotiating teams
• Strategize with company executives prior to client negotiations
• Structure client transactions to be most advantageous from a contracting and business perspective
• Advise, and consult company executives based on accurate interpretation of contract documents and the facts of a business opportunity
• Develop internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on various contracting and business issues
• Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit the Legal Group and the business
• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives
• Travel may be required.

Key Requirements

• Bachelors degree in law required; advanced degree in law, business or contract management preferred.
• Contracting experience in an appropriate fast-paced corporate environment is essential. Experience in negotiating technology or outsourcing agreements, including consulting, systems integration, software licensing, cloud, blockchain, robotics process or business process outsourcing agreements is preferred.
• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions
• Experience negotiating intellectual property issues
• A collaborative team player that is agile and keen to keep pace with legal and business developments affecting the company and its clients.

If you think you meet the above requirements and would like to apply please send:

1. your CV;
2. transcripts; and
3. a short cover email to bella.schick@horizon-recruit.com for us to determine your suitability for this role.

If you’d like to arrange a confidential discussion prior to applying please call our London office on +44 203 745 2513, our Singapore office on +65 6808 6635 or Hong Kong office on +852 3978 1369.

Please share this opportunity with any colleagues that you think would be interested. 

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