Senior Counsel, Commercial Legal, APAC

Borr Drilling; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global tech startup seeks a senior transactional lawyer based in Singapore to support their expanding commercial legal team in APAC. The role includes overseeing complex legal matters, leading negotiations, and advising on a range of fintech products. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience, is fluent in Mandarin, and possesses strong negotiation and communication skills. This position offers significant executive visibility and the opportunity to drive effective legal strategies across multiple jurisdictions.

Benefits

Collaborative work culture

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in commercial, financial service, and corporate law.
• Native fluency in Mandarin, both written and spoken.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiations on high-stakes enterprise deals across APAC.
• Develop strategies for commercial legal support and maintain scalable templates.
• Act as a key advisor to global commercial leadership.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Legal Drafting

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

LLB, LLM, or Juris Doctor

Job description

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

What you’ll do

Airwallex is looking for an experienced senior transactional lawyer who is fluent in Mandarin to support our fast growing commercial legal team in APAC (with an emphasis on China and Hong Kong). You will support a complex set of fintech products that will challenge your problem solving and critical thinking skills. You will support a wide variety of commercial legal matters supporting Airwallex’s growing Sales team, and help us build for scale. This is a strategic leadership position with executive visibility and you will be a key advisor to Airwallex’s APAC go-to-market leadership team and a senior leader on the legal team.

This position is based in Singapore or Hong Kong.

Responsibilities:

• Drive complex deals. Personally lead negotiations on high-stakes enterprise commercial and strategic partnership deals across APAC (with a strong emphasis on our China/HK business), many with significant cross-border elements
• Build for scale. Develop and implement an innovative strategy for delivering efficient and effective commercial legal support. Drive the creation and maintenance of scalable templates, playbooks, and processes to support our rapidly growing business
• Be a strategic partner. Act as a key advisor to our dynamic, globally distributed commercial leadership. Partner with Sales, Partnerships, and Strategy teams to scale our go-to-market efforts and advance multi-product and multi-jurisdictional deal strategies
• Enhance Efficiency. Partner with our data and operations teams to leverage technology, automation, and data-driven insights to increase the efficiency and impact of the commercial legal function
• Collaborate Globally. Work closely and effectively with Airwallex’s global legal, compliance, and risk teams on deals and projects that involve multiple jurisdictions
• Contribute to Culture. Make a positive contribution to the culture of the Airwallex legal team, the APAC leadership team, and the company as a whole

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Must-Haves:

• 7+ years of experience in commercial, financial service and corporate law preferably with a fast-growing tech startup or law firm
• LLB, LLM, or Juris Doctor
• Native fluency in Mandarin (both written and spoken) is essential due to the need to negotiate and review contracts and communicate with key stakeholders in Mandarin
• Excellent communication, drafting, negotiation, and writing skills
• The ability to explain complex legal concepts to various (often non-legal) audiences, and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and deals
• High motivation and the ability to operate independently and pivot quickly within a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• A learner’s mentality: you are consistently looking to take on new and diverse challenges and expand your knowledge beyond your current areas of expertise
• A collaborative and empathetic mindset, a good sense of humor, and a keen understanding of how to work effectively with colleagues from different teams and backgrounds
• Ability to translate complex legal and risk issues into clear, succinct, and actionable guidance
• High integrity, sound judgment, and an unflappable demeanor

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience at a fintech or high-growth and/or globally distributed company
• Experience drafting and negotiating technology transactions, SaaS agreements, and other customer-facing services agreements

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.