Professional Support Lawyer

WHITE & CASE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm in Singapore seeks a skilled Banking & Finance lawyer with 7+ years of experience. In this role, you will provide legal expertise, develop training programs, and mentor associates. A strong understanding of real estate finance is preferred, as well as excellent drafting and communication skills. This position offers a chance to contribute to innovative legal practices and support the firm's growth in Asia.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of sound legal experience in Banking & Finance.
• Strongly preferred experience in real estate finance.
• Commercial awareness and client-oriented approach required.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal, market, and practical expertise.
• Develop training programs and mentor team members.
• Monitor legal developments and trends.
• Draft standard forms and update them as needed.
• Contribute to global innovation and knowledge programs.

Skills

Banking & Finance expertise

Real estate finance knowledge

Excellent drafting skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Law degree

Bar membership in Hong Kong or Singapore

Job description

Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It is not just about our global network of offices and shared services centres; it is the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It is one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Be a source of legal, market and practical expertise for all, including the provision of direct support for client matters where appropriate;
• Work with the Group and other Professional Support team members to identify practice-related training needs of the Group; organise, design and deliver (personally or with others) Group training, including seminars, workshops and offsite training;
• Work with the wider Professional Support team to develop any global training programmes, as required by the partners;
• Be involved in Firmwide training programmes, as required, including core training programmes and induction courses; and
• Mentor trainees and associates.

Current Awareness, Client - Facing and Thought Leadership

• Monitor and keep the Group and the Professional Support team informed about important developments in the law or business environment;
• Use own knowledge and expertise to identify trends in the law or business environment with particular emphasis on general banking, leveraged and real estate finance and help the Group to develop new legal products, identify possible new services, and suggest innovative ways to deliver the Firm’s services more efficiently to its clients;
• Prepare regular current awareness newsletters for the Group and the Firm’s clients;
• Work with the Research & Market Intelligence team to determine requirements and policies and to implement processes for practice-related current awareness and alerts from internal and external sources;
• Author and publish research on legal developments or new areas of law relevant to the Group;
• Participate in industry events relevant to the Group to raise the Firm’s profile as a thought leader where appropriate; and
• Work with the Group, and others in Business Services, to identify opportunities to develop business from new and existing clients through writing articles and briefing notes and preparing and delivering client training.

Standard Forms and Know-How

• Draft standard forms and develop accompanying notes;
• Ensure standard forms are updated to reflect changes in law, regulation, market standards and best practice;
• Conduct matter debriefs for precedent collection and deal or market analysis;
• Create practice notes and other useful know-how;
• Operate and implement procedures for capturing, filtering, storing, accessing and disseminating know-how within the Group including capturing matter descriptions and categorisations in the Matter Profiling system; and
• Publish material on the Firm’s intranet and KM systems and encourage fee-earners to use KM systems and other resources.

Central Practice Solutions and Knowledge Projects

• Be a champion for rolling out new innovation or knowledge systems to the Group with other Professional Support Lawyers, where appropriate; and
• Contribute to global innovation and knowledge programmes and projects to support Firm collaboration, efficiency and to enhance Asia English law expertise across the Firm.

Experience/Skills/Qualifications

• Sound legal experience in Banking & Finance in a large law firm or financial institution legal department, including experience and market knowledge of leveraged finance, real estate finance and other financing transactions
• Real estate finance strongly preferred
• At least 7 years’ of post-qualified experience
• Commercial awareness and client orientated approach
• High professional standards with commitment to quality product
• Excellent drafting and research skills
• Well-developed organisational and communication skills
• Understanding of learning process and different ways of training
• Personality to make impact in group and to shape and influence policy
• Effective interpersonal skills and ability to interact with people at all levels, including other support areas
• Pragmatic, self-motivated, flexible and good team-worker
• Lateral thinker with initiative to establish, implement and complete projects
• Comfortable with IT
• Law degree
• Bar membership in Hong Kong or Singapore