Legal Counsel

Savills Singapore Pte Ltd; Santo Niño 1st; On-site; PHP 5,906,000 - 8,858,000; Full time

Job summary

Savills Singapore Pte Ltd seeks a corporate/commercial lawyer to draft, review and negotiate contracts, including tenders and vendor agreements. You will support corporate secretarial tasks, ensure compliance with approvals, and coordinate with delivery teams on key obligations.

The role requires practical, business-minded legal advice, solid drafting skills, and the ability to manage a high volume of matters in a lean team environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' PQE in commercial or corporate work.
• In-house and real estate, construction or facilities management experience an advantage.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills; clear, practical advice to non-lawyers.
• Commercially-minded; problem-solver.
• Organised, proactive and discreet; manages high volume of matters and deadlines in a lean team.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate routine and lower-risk contracts; escalate matters with a risk summary.
• Review tenders and awarded contracts and hand over obligations to delivery teams.
• Maintain templates; administer contract register and flag key dates.
• Ensure signing per delegation of authority.
• Provide practical legal advice to business units; triage requests and escalate high-risk issues.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation skills

Commercial advice

MS Office

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Contracts and Tenders

• Draft, review and negotiate routine and lower-risk contracts (service, agency, referral, NDAs, appointments, vendor, variations); **escalate** matters outside agreed thresholds with a risk summary.

• Review tenders and awarded contracts, prepare qualifications and clarifications to deadlines, and hand over key obligations to delivery teams.

• Maintain templates and update when necessary; administer the contract register, file executed copies and flag key dates in advance.

• Ensure legal documents are signed in accordance with the delegation of authority.

Business Advisory

• Give practical, plain English advice to business units to move business forward, as a commercially-minded counsel.

• Triage requests, resolve those within remit, and **escalate** high-risk matters with a recommended position.

Corporate Secretarial

• Draft board and shareholder resolutions, certified extracts and signatory mandates; circulate for signing and track completion.

• Coordinate with the external corporate secretarial provider on ACRA filings, statutory registers and annual deadlines; keep director, shareholder and delegation of authority records current.

Compliance and Group Reporting

• Coordinate LCR inputs to APAC and Group reporting to the reporting calendar; collate data from business units and subsidiaries and prepare drafts for the Director's review.

• Support the group's ESG compliance obligations from the legal and compliance side, including policies, audits and questionnaires.

External Counsel and Vendors

• Handle work in-house where possible and scope and manage external counsel where needed; onboard vendors, process invoices and track fees against estimates.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years' PQE in commercial or corporate work; in-house and real estate, construction or facilities management experience an advantage.

• Hands-on experience with tenders and commercial contract negotiation; working knowledge of the Singapore regulatory environment for real estate services an advantage.

• Strong drafting and negotiation skills; clear, practical advice to non-lawyers.

• Commercially-minded; problem-solver.

• Organised, proactive and discreet; manages a high volume of matters, registers and deadlines in a lean team; proficient in Microsoft Office.