- Reviewing and drafting contracts, advising possible risk exposure in the contracts including negotiating terms & conditions for the benefits of the Company.
- Undertaking legal research and providing legal opinions to the various department within the Group.
- Ensuring compliance with all applicable laws.
- Review and update on the legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
- Dealing, instructing, liaising with external solicitors on various legal documentation and on specific projects or tasks.
- Conduct various legal and ad hoc projects as and when required.

- Lead and develop the Company's legal matters through legal implications and compliance.
- Advice Management/Department Heads/ Senior Manager on a broad range legal and regulatory matters.
- To provide legal advices and support in legal, contractual, litigations, commercial law and etc as to adhere to any statutory or regulatory
- Proactively identify legal risks and provide legal advice in respect of all corporate operational legal matters and ensure legal compliance
- To conduct and keep abreast of any new laws and regulation applicable to the Company, initiate necessary change and impact to business
operation.
- Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations.
- Reviews, negotiate, and drafting all types of agreements, contracts and legal documents and etc.
- Liaise with external parties and lawyers on legal matters.
- Drive and facilitate a culture of compliance across the Company.
- Conduct work with integrity and responsibility.
- Undertake ad-hoc duties and assignments as when required.

-To assist partner in general litigation matters.

-To carry out tasks assigned by the partner from time to time.

Business Developments
- Research about the potential clients of the firm and prospective clients of targeted markets.
- Identify and establish relationships with local and foreign collaborating organisations for business developments.
- Prepare firm or team profiles for new projects and new clients.
- Prepare and manage applications of partners' memberships with professional associations.
- Prepare and update the promotional materials including firm profiles, practice profiles, partners' profiles.
- Takes charge of digital marketing contents schedules for firm website and social media platforms.
- Update and maintain firm websites and social media platforms.
- Identify the topics of the firm webinars.
- Organise and host webinars of the firm on Zoom Meeting and/or Zoom Webinar including preparing the promotional materials, managing the hosting platforms, responding to queries of participants, and post-production of webinar recordings.
- Prepare annual submissions to legal directories for firm rankings and partners' listing and coordinate the subsequent interview, such as Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, asialaw, Asian Legal Business, Benchmark Litigation, Who Who's Legal, World Trademark Reviews.
- Identify suitable advertising publications to better enhance the presence of the firm in international markets.
- Liaise with foreign publishing houses and legal directories for cobranding events.

Legal Research, Knowledge Management
- Research, write and edit the quarterly firm newsletter.
- Prepare daily news highlights on key developments of all industries.
- Prepare daily latest regulatory updates and legislative developments.
- Identify key topics, prepare and/or edit the article discussing recent legal trends.
- Coordinate publishing house based in foreign countries and the publishing timeline.
- Structure presentation outline and research contents for partners' presentations including writing the presentation scripts as and when required.
- Prepare responses in English or Mandarin to legal practice guides and surveys by publishers and associations including UK Practical Law, The Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, International Bar Association (IBA) and Chinese law firms.
- Pitch for book publishing projects with the prospective publishing company, including liaising with practice leads, marketing team and editors of the book.
- Research, edit and proofread book and book chapters authored by partners before printing.
- Check and proofread all publications of the firm.
- Managing legal database providers such as Lexis Advance, CLJ and participate in product feedback sessions.
- Submit cases conducted by lawyers to reporters for reporting.
- Procure new books for the firm library.
- Prepare training modules for workshops conducted by partners.

-To provide legal support and advising banks and financial organizations about regulations, contracts, and other finance issues

-To handle Corporate Banking and/or Islamic Banking matters.

-To advise client on commercial agreements and business transactions such as Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Corporate Restructuring and other relevant matters.

-To draft and review various legal documents/contracts/agreements in relation of corporate and commercial transactions.

-To conduct legal research and to keep abreast of new laws and regulations.

- To assist lawyers in different areas of practices

- Candidate must be willing to attend signing in client office or developer office if requested

- To do other tasks as of when required

Contract Review (50%)

- Review APAC standard template agreements - such as sales, purchase, and confidentiality.
- Provide overflow review of standard contract templates for Legal & Compliance colleagues in other regions.
- Assist the Legal & Compliance team globally with the review of non-standard contracts for the business units under the supervision of the APAC Legal Counsel - following the Contract Review Procedure.

Channel Partner Management (30%)

- Implement standard work in connection with the group's Channel Management Program in APAC.
- Actively drive and manage the Channel Partner onboarding due diligence process.
- Generate Red Flag Review Forms for sign off by Senior Compliance Officer.
- Generate new Channel Partner agreements for Business Units, assist with contract negotiations and annual renewals (where required).
- Work with local management and associates to ensure compliance with channel management program requirements by appointed Channel Partners, including compulsory annual anti-bribery/anti-corruption training.
- Develop and conduct channel management compliance training presentations to associates and distributors.
- Develop, update and maintain best practices for channel management, including the ongoing quality review of third party generated company reports .
- Keep up to date with the annual publications and country updates. Keep up to date with FCPA/UK Bribery Act enforcement trends.

Other (20%)
- Assist with Corporate Governance matters pertaining to entities, globally, under the supervision of the Assistant General Counsel.
- Assist with various legal and compliance projects, as needed.

APAC - Commercial Contract Review (70%)

- Day to day legal contract review work for all business units in ANZ, SEA (Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam), India and Korea - Sales Agreement, Purchase Agreement (Procurement Contracts), Service Agreements, Lease Agreement, Quality Agreement, Channel Partner Agreement, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Consignment Agreements.
- Advise on legal issues, risks, and company policies to all commercial and functional groups.
- Review complex non-standard confidentiality agreements.
- Liaise with Finance team to ensure negotiated contract terms are compliant with revenue, credit, and payment guidelines.
- Communicate legal updates to commercial and functional teams when required across the region.
- Train commercial & functional groups in APAC for compliance with the Global Contract Review Procedure
- Implement updates to the contract processes/workflow and forms.
- Direct all contract review work is undertaken through the Contracts Connect portal and all executed agreements end up in the Repository.

Compliance (15%)

- Implement global compliance activities/projects across the APAC region.
- Manage compliance investigations in APAC and coordinate with the Senior Compliance Officer
- Channel Partner Activities - including review complex Red Flag Review Forms for sign off by the Senior Compliance Manager.

Real Estate & CommOps support (5%)

- Office leases, renewals and terminations
- Review of warehouse leases
- Negotiation of contracts with Logistics providers

Global Projects (5%)

- Support and collaborate with the global legal & compliance team on various global projects.

- to assist in formulating, reviewing and revising the listing requirements and rulings related to issuers.