Junior Inhouse Legal Counsel (3 months Contract)

Talent Legal Global Search Consultancy; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A legal consultancy firm in Singapore is seeking a Legal Counsel to support various legal functions, including drafting commercial agreements and providing compliance advice. The ideal candidate should have experience in financing transactions and a solid understanding of legal principles. This role offers an opportunity to work on diverse legal matters and collaborate with cross-regional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in drafting and reviewing commercial agreements.
• Strong understanding of legal compliance and regulations.
• Proven ability to interpret statutes and recommend solutions.

Responsibilities

• Support legal matters for various functions and new business initiatives.
• Review and draft financing and security documentation.
• Liaise with external solicitors on litigation matters.

Skills

Commercial agreements drafting

Legal compliance

Interpreting statutes

Client servicing

Financing transactions

Job description

Legal Counsel

• Supporting various functions on legal matters, including new business initiatives
• Reviewing/ Drafting commercial agreements, letters, terms and conditions, undertakings and indemnities as well as forms in relation to a wide range of products and services, ensuring adequate protections and compliance with the company’s policies.
• Interpreting statutes and recommending legal solutions.
• Obtaining fee proposals for engagement of external solicitors and liaising with external solicitors on various legal, corporate and/or litigation matters.
• Co-ordinating and supporting ad-hoc projects in legal and regulatory aspects
• Supporting credit projects, initiatives and other cross-regional team projects.
• Servicing clients on margin financing, (pre-) IPO financing, privatisation or General Offer financing, leveraged finance (financial sponsors), structured acquisition finance, syndicated structured loans, structurally subordinated credits, fund finance/capital call facilities, trade financing, mortgage financing and other bespoke specialised financing for UHNW individuals or business founders against private wealth assets.
• Obtaining fee proposals of external counsels for lenders’ counsel engagement, instructing external counsels (as lender’s counsel) on various financing transactions covering loan structuring matters, intercreditor issues, and/or cross-border elements and security perfection.
• Reviewing financing and security documentation drafted by external counsel
• Preparing in-house financing and security documentation for margin finance (internal standard forms will be used) and security perfection.
• Covering miscellaneous credit processes like preparation of loan disbursements and discharge of security upon full repayments of loans.
• Working closely with lending principals & coverage teams.
• Providing legal advice, dispensing appropriate structuring (legal) mitigations for transactions.
• Owner of the Company’s standard form margin financing template documentation across SG and HK. Continuous review and update of these standard form template agreements, ensuring they are fit for purpose