Legal Executive, APAC

Logicalis Group (DE); Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital transformation is seeking a Legal Counsel to provide comprehensive legal support across APAC. This role involves drafting and negotiating agreements, ensuring compliance, and providing strategic legal advice, ideally suited for candidates with strong communication skills in Mandarin and experience in corporate law.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of legal experience preferred, especially in corporate/commercial matters.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience in the IT sector or intermediary setting is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal review and advice to all levels of management.
• Negotiate, draft, and review various agreements.
• Assist with compliance reporting and legal compliance matters.

Skills

Mandarin Chinese proficiency

Strong communication skills

Business sense

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Law

Job description

As Architects of Change, Logicalis' focus is to design, support and execute clients' digital transformation by uniting their vision with their technology expertise and industry insights. The company, through its deep understanding of key IT industry drivers such as security, cloud, data management and IoT, can address customer priorities such as revenue growth and business, operational efficiency, innovation, risk and compliance, data governance and sustainability.

We strengthen our purpose: to design, support, and execute our customers' digital transformation by converging their vision with our technological expertise and knowledge of the industry. The brand refresh underpins both the evolution of Logicalis’ positioning as well as our strategic vision for growth.

Accountabilities:

• Provide legal review and advice to all levels of management on a wide variety of legal and business issues across APAC entities.
• Negotiate, draft and review agreements, including master service agreements, vendor agreements, reseller agreements, conditions of sale, non-disclosure agreements, teaming agreements, customer PO’s terms and conditions, statements of work, partnership agreements, etc.
• Assist in compliance reporting to corporate headquarters.
• Assist in all ad-hoc projects.
• Legal review of tenders/bids and ensure bid inputs comply with corporate policies.
• Manage and assist in legal compliance matters, ISO certifications, business licenses, contractual compliance, etc.
• Assist in licensing and compliance matters.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law
• At least 3-4 years of private practice and/or in-house counsel experience (preference for experience within an MNC), handling corporate/commercial matters.
• Strong and effective communication skills. Mandarin Chinese proficiency (both written and spoken) is preferred to support regional entities (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan).
• Good business sense with the ability to connect legal and business knowledge to provide strategic advice.
• Keen attitude towards learning and a can-do attitude towards non-standard work tasks.
• Ability to work well in a team-centric environment, both within the Legal team and externally with other corporate and business teams.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience in the IT sector and/or in an intermediary setting (distributor, reseller, etc.) is an added advantage.

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