Legal Specialist - Singapore

GOOGLE ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Legal Assistant to support corporate compliance and manage legal processes in the APAC region. The successful candidate will have a bachelor's degree and extensive experience in a legal environment, excelling in investigative and organizational skills. This role offers an opportunity to work strategically with multiple stakeholders and contribute to legal activities that shape company operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of legal work experience in a law firm, government, or in-house legal department.
• Experience working with multiple APAC or global markets is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage corporate expansions, liquidations, and compliance for Alphabet subsidiaries in APAC.
• Design and implement new processes for efficiency and provide guidance on policies.
• Act as point of contact for stakeholders and prepare legal documents.

Skills

Investigative Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration Skills

Attention to Detail

Organizational Skills

Time Management Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience

Job description

Product area

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Job description

Google's legal department is at the center of an information law revolution, and you're at its core. As a Legal Assistant, you are a driving force behind the success of your Legal team, ready to roll up your sleeves to create and improve processes, maintain records, conduct legal research and coordinate communications across the team. As you closely support your team, you may find yourself working with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties. You're an independent thinker who isn't afraid to ask questions, and you're organized in a way that never overlooks the details.

Additional job description

In this role, you will deliver projects that are integrated into an overarching project, with minimal assistance. You will provide support to the Legal department on various legal and administrative matters within projects of moderate impact, risk, and complexity, managing information and documentation, conducting legal reviews, advising clients on risks and solutions, and improving processes. You will address commonly escalated issues or triage by responding promptly and thoroughly to requests from inside and outside of the Legal department while also developing and proactively implementing recommendations and solutions outside of established procedures to solve problems of moderate complexity based on user/client feedback. You will interact with multiple groups within the Legal department, with internal clients across Google, and with external parties, tailoring communications to the specific audience.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

• Manage corporate expansions, liquidations, integrations and coordination of corporate compliance, governance and maintenance for Alphabet subsidiaries in the APAC region.
• Plan and coordinate key meetings in accordance with local statutory and regulatory requirements, including attending meetings, preparing documents, taking minutes, maintaining corporate records and internal databases and timely filings.
• Design, recommend and implement new processes and procedures for efficiency and provide guidance to ensure conformity and consistency in the application of Alphabet’s policies/practices.
• Act as the point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, prepare legal documents and lead training sessions.
• Ensure corporate housekeeping, including tracking of documents, routing documents for signature and distribution, filing, data organization, and managing logistical matters such as corporate chopping, certification, and notarization.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of legal work experience in a law firm, government, or in house legal department.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with multiple APAC or global markets.
• Excellent investigative skills, with the ability to review and organize numerous documents in complex legal matters.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to be a team player.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build relationships across the business at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail, organizational, and time management skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects/requests that are time sensitive.