Legal Counsel (Mandarin Speaker)

Are you Robert Walters? Robert Walters is a world leading specialist professional recruitment consultancy. Our aim is to power people and organization to fulfil their unique potential. To achieve this, we’ve committed to the core principle of teamwork, integrity, passion, innovation and quality to ensure our business are always putting the needs of candidate and clients first.

Robert Walters is looking for a Legal Counsel. This person is responsible for contract review. The person will work within the APAC legal team and report directly to a Legal Counsel.

Responsibilities

• Contract review for SEA, including preparing, structuring, reviewing, revising and drafting commercial contracts in a timely manner.

• Coordinating, liaising and negotiating commercial contract with internal stakeholder and clients.

• Advising business on contracts, dispute or other business concerns.

• Reviewing and advising on other legal and/or commercial documents (i.e., leases, employment contract, demand letters etc.);

• Developing and implementing of contracts management process.

• Work together with senior legal counsel and other department to providing legal advice to assist Robert Walters in the evaluation and management of compliance with data privacy, cybersecurity and industry regulations in SEA and GC.

• Research, analyze and keep abreast of any new regulations which may impact recruitment industries and business operation, includes but is not limited to data protection and cybersecurity regulations.

• Work together with senior legal counsel to draft any documents that is required in relation to the compliance of data privacy, cyber security and industrial regulations.

• Maintaining a legal library for regulatory research done and regulatory advice given in the region.

• Supporting licensing and registration process in the region.

• Liaise and work with external legal adviser in the region where required.

• Any other tasks may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer in any Common Law countries.

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in regulatory and contract review. Experience in data privacy is preferred.

• Able to review Mandarin language contract or bilingual contracts.

Skillset required:

• Must have critical thinking ability to evaluate fact situation, identify legal issues, analyze, understand and apply the statutes and regulation.

• Able to work independently.

• Strong communication skills essential in order to effectively and confidentially, interact with stakeholders of all levels and from multiple regions.

• Highly organized and detailed-oriented.

• Willingness and flexibility to work on a variety of legal, compliance and regulatory matters.