Legal Counsel jobs in Singapore

Air Liquide Singapore Private Limited (ALSg), the largest and leading industrial gas company in South-east Asia, employs 800 people recognized for their high level of expertise to provide gases, equipment, services and packaged solutions to support the requirements of the Singapore manufacturing industry.

• Draft, negotiate and assist with a range of commercial contracts with customers, agents and suppliers (including equipment, energy and transport providers).
• Review and provide legal advice on responses to customer-driven tender processes, including identification of legal risks in customer’s proposed purchasing terms.
• Render legal opinion on company concerns including customer and supplier relations and contracts implementation.
• Manage a contracts database and entity policies.
• Manage the notarial services for the Company.

• Understand the implementation of various laws, local regulations and authorized standardization bodies.
• Understand codes and mandatory regulations related to AL activities to analyze its implications and provide practical guidelines or internal plan to comply with it.
• Provide legal support to internal stakeholders.

• Handle cases (initiate, monitor, complete) for the company and represent the company in judicial, quasi judicial and administrative hearings.
• Provide legal support in contractual disputes to generate the best possible commercial outcome, including management of external lawyers briefed in litigation.

• Act as entity's Ethics Officer.
• Promote and remind all compliance aspects and corporate legal mechanisms in daily routine activities among employees.
• Work together to achieve the highest level of compliance by taking a leadership role in daily duties.
• Provide and convey training material of laws and any legal aspect of AL activities in accordance with the requirements of government regulations and Air Liquide policies.

• Ensure that all AL activities in the country comply with all government regulations and Air Liquide policies.
• Liaise with AL representatives in groups and/or organizations for consulting during the process to develop laws, mandatory regulations, codes or standards.
• Lead for coordination and communication process (interface) between Air Liquide and the regulatory authorities.
• Define the IRC Program that has compliance aspects in general and related to corporate legal matters.
• Ensure that suspected offenses or violations of laws or mandatory regulations are promptly reported to the Managing Director of the subsidiary.
• Establish a yearly plan for Legal Site Audit to ensure that operations are compliant with applicable laws, mandatory regulations, codes and standards.
• Monitor compliance improvement process and make necessary corrections/adjustments.
• Maintain reasonable knowledge of the codes and standards mandated by the laws and mandatory regulations.

• Ensure corporate compliance and governance, responsible for board meetings, drafting and review of resolutions (Shareholders, Commissioners and Directors), when required and in coordination with external service providers.
• Act as the Company's Corporate Secretary.

• Facilitate legal training.

Approximately 12 years of Post Qualification Experience in the Legal Department of a multinational company or a mix of law firm and in-house experience; in manufacturing or chemicals industry a plus. Experience in international taxation and export financing methods.

A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.

At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.