- To assist Partner in solicitors' work
- Attend hearings and trials at lower court

- Design and manage the strategy, direction and activities of the Asia Pacific legal and compliance function.

- Advise, counsel and provide legal services to the business in Asia Pacific, their goals and challenges and identify appropriate legal and compliance strategies to facilitate those goals and minimize those challenges.

- Work collaboratively with executive leadership, department managers and staff throughout the organization to establish policies and procedures that drive efficient and effective business practices in all forms while ensuring alignment with global and local laws and policies.

- Negotiate and document commercial transactions, contracts, and other legal arrangements including distribution, dealer and sales agency transactions.

- Assist with the development and implementation of policies and programs relating to anti-corruption and compliant business practices.

- Engage proactively and advise colleagues on the prioritization of risks and to identify, monitor and improve key processes and internal controls.

- Be a critical team member in formulating an appropriate intellectual property strategy for Asia Pacific.

- Develop appropriate approaches to dispute resolution, lawsuits, and arbitration ; provide regular, clear communication of litigation issues and opportunities to the affected business and to the General Counsel.

- Emphasize and demonstrate operational excellence and balanced risk taking on a consistent and regular basis.

- Work with the compliance team to identify and mitigate compliance risks and develop appropriate countermeasures. Conduct compliance related investigations and implement action plans to remediate identified issues.

- Assist with mergers & acquisition, consistent with relevant experience � from due diligence to documentation depending on the situation and background.

- Educate business leadership on the appropriate use and �leverage� of in-house counsel.

- Assist HR colleagues with labor and employment law support.

- Assist Quality and Regulatory Affairs colleagues with regulatory law support.

- Select appropriate outside counsel and work closely with them.

- Work on the smallest and simplest, as well as the most complex, legal matters faced by the company.

� Independently handle complex projects and legal matters, which include day-to-day operational work, strategic projects, corporate exercises, dispute resolution, and regulatory compliance.
� Lead projects or work assignment and play a pro-active role in structuring transactions from both legal and commercial perspectives to ensure achievement of business objectives.
� Independently manage, draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements in the following areas:
- Telecommunications services and network IS/IT procurement corporate exercises financing
� Manage post-contract issues, including dispute resolution and litigation.
� Advise stakeholders and management of legal risks, communicate the impact, value propositions and recommend ways to mitigate such risks from a commercial and business solution perspective.
� Engage with industry players and participate in industry forums on broader telco legal issues.
� Provide training and presentations to stakeholders, management and the Legal department.
� Engage in the development and implementation of activities to enhance processes, efficiency and growth in the Legal department.

-Audit, review and screen all product related agreements & documents
-Ensure compliance standards are met throughout all regulated aspects of the business
-Provide training to all employees in relation to compliance & regulatory matters
-Conduct review of legal manual when there are changes, updates or new standards to the statutory and legal requirements
-Management of information/complaints on misconduct of corruption, abuse of power, malpractice, violation of organisation's code of conduct and ethics
-Detecting and verifying information related to compliance matters including corruption, abuse of power, malpractice and violation of company's code of conduct and other internal procedures.

Objective of the Position:

Contract review, negotiation, formulate guidelines, policies, provide legal advice on commercial and operational matters, manage litigation files, provide training / increase awareness.

Responsibilities:
-Review and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements for Singapore and Malaysia.
-Review and provide legal advice on legal documents / contract and liaise with relevant departments to identify risk and compliance.
-Review progress of outstanding litigation and liaise with external lawyers.
-Resolve issues raised by Business Units and provide advice to them.
-Deliver a qualitative legal review for commercial contracts.
-Formulate policies and processes for business units operating in local markets.
-Evaluate, negotiate and close the M&A or special deals (Mega Deal) that comes along which required special attention.
-Work with country Finance to develop and enforce a 'Commercial Term Checklist' to highlight key risks for colleagues from business units.
-Provide legal education / training to business units.
-Implement the MSA / SA template for business units.

- Drafting of commercial agreements
- Advisory works related to Malaysian law
- Legal research

- full spectrum of Corporate Secretarial works in relation to public listed company.

- To support the team in providing advice on broad range of complex and interesting banking and finance matters, which covers corporate banking, Islamic banking, syndications, capital market financing, asset-backed securitization and/or structured finance, both domestic as well as cross-border financing
- To assist the partner to prepare, draft and review agreements/contracts in various sectors with specialization in banking and finance industry
- To manage multiple clients, cases, and legal activities that carry varying deadlines
- Attending client meetings whenever required
- Follow up with clients on their respective matters and payments
- Overseeing each milestone's progress and reporting to partner on the progress of work

- Provides administrative support to the Managers in their daily duties in order for them to perform their work effectively and efficiently.

1. Research

- Conducts research using sources such as internet, databases, etc to find neede information for business decision making.

- Prepares research materials on legal opinions for the use of the Managers.

2. Document Monitoring

- Assist in monitoring the release of documents in the safekeeping of the division by the Department Administrator in line with current Policies and Procedures guidelines.

- To advise the Head of Department of suspected leak of confidential document/any agreements whilst they were being handed over to Group Legal & Compliance for safe keeping and the risks of such leak of information.

3. Template Amendment

- Reviews the amendments made to document templates used by the Division by the internal customers.

- To advise supervisor of suspected leak of confidential document/any agreements whilst they were being handed over to Group Legal for safe keeping and the risks of such leak of information.

4. Monitoring & Reporting

- Assist in monitoring compliance level of all policies and procedures and report to superior in the event of non-compliance.

- Liaise with customers for status updates/progress of the projects returned to group legal.

- Assist in preparing and finalising status updates for matters referred to group legal for review/advise.

- Assist in collating compliance reports required to be submitted to the Department.

- Drafts and reviews legal documents and provision of legal advice to enable the Company to conduct its daily business in compliance with the legal requirements and applicable laws.

1. Document Preparation

- Prepare legal documents for the execution by the Company and/or customers of the department ie subsidiaries and other departments.

- Assist in drafting, reviewing, commenting and finalising documents for review and clearance by the supervisor for execution by relevant parties.

2. Legal Advisory & Compliance

- Assist supervisor in the provision of legal advice to clarify any vagueness on point of law, applications and enforceability and any dispute or proceedings threatened against the Company.

- Provide updates in laws to the Company and officers of the Company and /or customers of the department.

- Assist supervisor in monitoring and reviewing records and transactions in order to identify the potential or actual problem of non-compliance.

- Advice supervisor identified errors, improper conduct or compliance exceptions to regulatory requirements.

- Identify and assist the supervisor to resolve conflicts of interest that arise involving the Company and the customers of the department.

- To advise the Head of Department of suspected leak of confidential documents/any agreements whilst they were being handed over to Group Legal & Compliance for safe keeping and the risks of such leak of information.

3. Merger & Acquisitions

- Assist supervisor with the review, comment, negotiation and amendment of the contents of prepared documents.

- Highlight to the supervisor/Company and/or customers of the department, the legal implication, enforceability and compliance of laws.

- Participate in proposals preparation to ensure proposals are in compliance with laws and authority given to the Company and/or customers of the department.

4. Financing

- Assis supervisor with the review, comment, negotiation and amendment of the contents of prepared documents.

- Highlight to the supervisor/Company and/or customers of the department, the legal implication, enforceability and compliance of laws.

5. External Liaison

- Liaises with external legal firms to convey the request and decision made by the Company and/or customers of the department.

- Liaises with external advisors including financial advisor in relation to corporate exercises proposed to be undertaken by the Company and/or involving the Company and/or customers of the department.

6. Management and Administration of the Department

- Prepare for review and comment by the supervisor and finalise the Policies and Procedures of the department and such other policies and procedures to be used by the department.

- Monitor and ensure compliance and adherence of the Policies and Procedures of the department by the staff of the department and the Company and/or customers of the department.

- Report to the supervisor any non-compliance of the Policies and Procedures.

- Prepare for review and comment by the supervisor on the budget for the department.

- Review the update on the development of the project of which assistance had been requested for by the Business Development division and/or other customers of the department.