Legal Counsel

DKSH; Selangor; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a seasoned legal professional to manage in-house legal matters and contracts. This role involves drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various commercial contracts while ensuring compliance with corporate governance and ethical standards. You will provide legal advisory to internal stakeholders, manage legal projects, and maintain relationships with external legal advisors. The ideal candidate will have over ten years of experience in legal practice, particularly in the Healthcare and Technology sectors, and possess a strong understanding of corporate law and IT-related regulations. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will drive legal excellence and compliance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in legal practice with a focus on business law.
• Advanced knowledge of corporate law, contract law, and IT-related law.

Responsibilities

• Manage contract resolutions and ensure compliance with company policies.
• Provide legal advice and maintain relationships with stakeholders and external advisors.

Skills

Legal Advisory

Contract Management

Negotiation

Litigation Management

Legal Research

Fluency in English

Office Productivity Tools

Education

Degree in Law from top-tier university

Admission to the Malaysian Bar

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Manage the resolution of all country in-house legal/contract matters as part of the function's legal management role.

Job Responsibilities:

• Contract management and resolution of legal matters related to all types of commercial contracts, including but not limited to IT/Software contracts whilst ensuring compliance with the Company’s policies, governance/compliance/code of business conduct/ethics/corporate social responsibility, etc.
• Responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of all types of commercial contracts, including but not limited to IT/Software contracts, business contracts, agreements, documents etc. whilst ensuring compliance with the Company’s policies, governance/compliance/code of business conduct/ethics/corporate social responsibility, etc.
• Manage country legal/compliance projects to ensure areas needing change and improvement are acted upon.
• Provide legal advisory to internal stakeholders. Gain better understanding of the business and its various processes to enhance the quality of legal advice given.
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with external legal advisors/legal community to keep up to date with laws, regulations, and best practices.
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with internal stakeholders of the Company.
• Assist the Director of Legal in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei legal matters.
• Manage the internal legal contract database for DKSH Group.
• Responsible in conducting legal trainings and user trainings in managing the legal contract database with internal stakeholders.
• Responsible in conducting legal trainings and user trainings to all internal stakeholders.
• Handling of trademarks - manage and keep track of Group Trademarks, functioning as the key liaison with trademark solicitors.
• Advise on issues relating to litigation matters and debt recovery actions, including monitoring of status of cases.
• Manage external counsels for litigation and corporate matters and oversee all works related thereto.
• Attend to administrative procedures to manage business legal implications.
• Administer due diligence processes and activities within the country to enforce a structured approach to legal management.
• Preparation of key litigations/arbitrations, interactions with external legal counsels and represent the country in key legal proceedings to ensure DKSH's interests are well protected.
• Prepare and provide response on court/legal documents/pleadings.
• Conduct legal research in relation to the assignments given.
• Attend to all legal matters/tasks or other ad-hoc matters/tasks as assigned from time to time.

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Law from top-tier university in Malaysia or abroad
• Qualified to practice law. Admission to the Malaysian Bar is preferred
• Minimum ten (10) years’ experience practicing law in a law firm with business law orientation or in the in-house legal department of an organization, ideally locally listed
• Exposure and substantial experience in the Healthcare, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Performance Materials, Technology industries is preferred
• Extensive experience in legal management (e.g. organization of a legal service team, definition of a coverage and sourcing model, reporting, alternative billing methods, legal process outsourcing, knowledge of the relevant technology capacity)
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of the business and industry
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of corporate law, contract and commercial law, IT/Software-related law, including country-specific laws
• Demonstrate fluency in English (both written and spoken). Proficiency in any other language is an additional asset
• Demonstrate appreciation and respect for cultural sensitivities especially in cross-country/culture interactions
• Demonstrate ability to handle highly sensitive and confidential information with integrity
• Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Demonstrate knowledge of adaptation of the law within the cultural/legal framework of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei