Legal Counsel

QUADRATURE SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Quadrature Singapore Pte. Ltd. is seeking a commercial generalist to join our Singapore office.

You will own end-to-end commercial contracts, advise on data protection in cross-border settings, and support corporate and regulatory matters across multiple entities. You will lead negotiations with vendors and counterparties, build templates and playbooks to streamline legal work, and communicate risk clearly to engineers, traders, and operations.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer admitted in Singapore or another common-law jurisdiction.
• Minimum 1 year post-qualification experience, in-house preferred.
• Experience handling a high volume of commercial agreements end to end (intake, mark-up, negotiation, filing).
• Experience with technology/vendor agreements, including software/SaaS licences, managed and professional services.
• Experience negotiating data contracts under PDPA/UK GDPR.
• Experience leading the legal workstream on private investments.

Responsibilities

• Owns commercial contracts from intake to signature and filing (NDAs, software/SaaS licences, data licences, services, consultancy, hardware, events).
• Leads corporate investments workstreams and coordinates with internal/external stakeholders and counsel.
• Advises on data protection matters in cross-border settings.
• Supports corporate secretarial matters across group entities.
• Supports trading and regulatory matters as needed.
• Builds and maintains templates, playbooks, trackers and tools to speed up legal work.

Skills

Commercial contracts

Negotiation

Data protection

SaaS licensing

In-house experience

Education

Qualified lawyer (Singapore or England & Wales)

Job description

The Legal Team

We are a small team of in-house lawyers who act as both facilitator and protector of the business: enabling it to realise its ambitions while managing the legal and regulatory risks of doing so. Our work spans trading, commercial, regulatory, corporate, investment, employment and property matters, and we invest in the systems and processes that make legal work efficient and transparent.

The Role

Based in our Singapore office, you will be the Legal Team's commercial generalist and its first point of contact for the business. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Owning the firm's commercial contracts end to end, from intake and triage through mark-up, negotiation, signature and filing: NDAs, software and SaaS licences, data licences, managed and professional services, consultancy, hardware, and events and office contracts.
• Leading the legal workstream on corporate investments and transactions made by the firm, managing internal and external stakeholders and, when necessary, external counsel.
• Advising on data protection matters in a cross-border setting.
• Supporting corporate and company secretarial matters across the group's entities.
• Supporting the wider team on trading and regulatory matters as needed.
• Building and maintaining the templates, playbooks, trackers and tools that make legal work faster.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer admitted in Singapore, England and Wales or another common-law jurisdiction, with a minimum of 1 year of post-qualification experience, including time in-house.
• A strong background in handling a high volume of commercial agreements and corporate matters end to end: intake and triage, mark-up, negotiation with the counterparty, stakeholder engagement, and making sure that matters are handled with the appropriate level of urgency.
• Substantial experience with a broad variety of technology and vendor agreements, including software and SaaS licences, managed and professional services, and consultancy terms and statements of work.
• Substantial experience negotiating data contracts, including a solid understanding of (i) standard licensing terms and concepts and (ii) securities and privacy laws applicable to commercial data products.
• Experience leading the legal workstream on private investments.
• Working knowledge of data protection law in a commercial setting (the Singapore PDPA and UK GDPR): data processing terms, international transfer mechanisms, maintaining internal data processing records, privacy notices, handling data subject requests and advising stakeholders on ad hoc data protection matters.
• Comfortable operating across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group with offices in London, New York and Singapore.
• Excellent commercial judgement: you focus negotiation on the terms that matter and are able to make judgement calls independently and elevate when necessary.
• A clear, practical communicator who can explain legal risk to engineers, researchers, traders, finance and operations colleagues in plain terms. Ability to communicate effectively with senior management is a must.
• Highly organised and self-directed: able to prioritise a busy and varied workload, meet business deadlines and hand matters over cleanly, chase stakeholders instead of being chased.
• An appetite for improving how legal work gets done: building and maintaining templates, playbooks, trackers and processes, and making good use of workflow and AI tools.
• A genuine interest in technology, data and markets.

It would be good if you have:

• Company secretarial experience.
• Experience dealing with employment law matters.
• Experience supporting operations in the United Kingdom or the United States.
• Experience at a systematic trading business.