376 Legal Affairs jobs in Singapore

Job Title: Regional Corporate Support Manager

Job Description:

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to oversee the legal affairs of our organization in the region. This role will involve providing legal advice and support to management teams, operational units, and corporate functions.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Legal Advisory: Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, agreements, and legal documents for local business operations.
2. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure group companies comply with applicable local laws and regulations, including those relating to economic sanctions related matters, competition laws, and industry-specific requirements.
3. Corporate Governance: Assist in developing and reviewing corporate governance framework, policies, and procedures to align with legal requirements and industry best practices.
4. Transaction Support: Offer legal support for corporate restructuring, M&A transactions, joint ventures, or business transfers affecting group companies within the region.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in economics, law, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years' experience in the global shipping business, with a focus on sales, subsidiary management, legal support, and project management.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in preparing contracts, particularly vessel Charter Parties and corporate service agreements.
• Proficient and fluent in both English and Japanese (written and verbal) to effectively communicate with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
• Solid understanding of corporate, commercial, and regulatory laws, including but not limited to corporate acts, competition laws, anti-corruption laws, sanctions, and trade control.
• Exposure to cross-border legal matters and multi-jurisdiction is a plus.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work with a global organization.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Chance to develop your career in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

How to Apply:

Please submit your resume and cover letter to us.

• Lead and manage the regional legal team and national security teams, fostering a high-performance culture aligned with Microsoft’s values.
• Provide strategic legal counsel to senior sales leadership and business units on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues. Assist in shaping strategy and executing strategic sales priorities in-country.
• Ensure compliance with local laws and regulations, proactively managing legal risks.
• Oversee litigation and disputes (excluding HR and consumer disputes), regulatory engagements, and Public Sector contract negotiations. Represent CELA in the Area Compliance Committee.
• Collaborate with the Regional Deal Team to support regulatory aspects of Enterprise Commercial customer contract negotiations.
• Work with the Regional SME&C CELA lead to develop self-help materials for sales motions.
• Coordinate with Government Affairs Leads and Ambassadors to align policy and regulatory engagements, including emerging priorities like privacy, security, AI, and critical infrastructure.
• Leverage outside counsel efficiently to manage budgets.
• Partner with global legal teams to implement Microsoft’s global objectives locally and drive cross-border projects.
• Represent Microsoft in interactions with regulators, legal officers, industry bodies, and legal industry leaders.
• Utilize AI to foster innovation within CELA and the CPS team in Asia.
• Manage regulatory and compliance matters related to national security, critical infrastructure, and relations with Defence and Intelligence sectors.
• Handle responses to security incidents and audits from government and customers.

Required Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal degree with 9+ years of legal experience, including leadership roles and strategic initiatives.
• Or equivalent experience.
• Active license to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction.
• Proven experience in corporate law, regulatory compliance, and litigation management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in multinational corporations or the technology sector is preferred.
• Strong business acumen with pragmatic legal advice skills.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics. For disability-related accommodations, please contact via the Accommodation request form. Benefits may vary by country and employment type.

The Area Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN at Microsoft is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing all legal matters within Southeast Asia. This position plays a critical role in shaping and executing Microsoft’s legal strategy, ensuring compliance, managing risk, and enabling business success. The role requires a seasoned legal professional with deep expertise in corporate law and team leadership. Note: there is flexiblity in the role location to be based in Microsoft sites within ASEAN region.

The Area Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN l will manage a team of legal professionals who are responsible for supporting legal and regulatory matters, and for supporting commercial deals with public sector customers. They will also manage a National Security lead that manages responses to security incidents and government and customer audits and inquiries.

Central to the role will be deep partnerships with internal Microsoft teams. The Area Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN will be the primary point of contact on legal and regulatory matters for the Area Leadership Team. They will collaborate closely with the CELA Area Ambassador and the Region Deal Team to ensure clear allocation and consistent execution of roles and responsibilities. They will also work as needed with CELA teams including Government Affairs, Compliance & Ethics, Competition, Cloud & Infrastructure, Customer Security & Trust, Trusted Technology and Product & Services Group.

Required Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal degree AND 6+ years of legal experience with deep understanding/exposure to ASEAN region.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.
• Proven track record in corporate and commercial law, regulatory compliance, and/or litigation management.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally 10 years of legal experience, including leadership/people management responsibilities.
• Experience working in a multinational corporation and/or technology sector is preferred.
• Strong learning agility, astute business acumen and ability to provide pragmatic legal advice.

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• Lead and manage the Area legal team and national security team, fostering a high-performance culture aligned with Microsoft’s values.
• Provide strategic legal counsel to senior sales leadership and business units on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues. Help shape strategy and execution of strategic sales priorities.
• Ensure compliance with local laws and regulations, and proactively manage legal risks.
• Oversee litigation and disputes matters (excluding HR and consumer disputes), proactive and reactive regulatory engagements, and Public Sector contract negotiations. Represent CELA in the Area Compliance Committee.
• Work with the Regional Deal Team when needed to support regulatory elements of Enterprise Commercial customer contract negotiations. Work with the Region SME&C CELA lead when needed to support regulatory scaled resources such as self-help materials for the SME&C sales motion.
• Work with the Area Government Affairs Lead and Area Ambassador to ensure alignment between policy engagements and other regulatory engagements, and emerging or multidisciplinary regulatory priorities such as privacy, security, AI and critical infrastructure.
• Responsibly leverage outside counsel resources to drive budget efficiencies.
• Collaborate with regional and global legal teams to land Microsoft’s global objectives within the Area-specific context, and to drive cross-border projects including CELA Customer and Partner Solutions strategic priorities.
• Represent Microsoft in interactions with senior external stakeholders, including regulators, senior legal officers for private and public sector customers, industry bodies, and legal industry leaders.
• Lead Microsoft’s engagement on regulatory and compliance matters relating to national security, critical infrastructure, and relations with Defence and Intelligence customers.
• Manage responses to security incidents and government and customer audits and inquiries.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations .

The Area Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN at Microsoft is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing all legal matters within Southeast Asia. This position plays a critical role in shaping and executing Microsoft's legal strategy, ensuring compliance, managing risk, and enabling business success. The role requires a seasoned legal professional with deep expertise in corporate law and team leadership. Note: there is flexiblity in the role location to be based in Microsoft sites within ASEAN region.

The Area Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN l will manage a team of legal professionals who are responsible for supporting legal and regulatory matters, and for supporting commercial deals with public sector customers. They will also manage a National Security lead that manages responses to security incidents and government and customer audits and inquiries.

Central to the role will be deep partnerships with internal Microsoft teams. The Area Head of Legal Affairs, ASEAN will be the primary point of contact on legal and regulatory matters for the Area Leadership Team. They will collaborate closely with the CELA Area Ambassador and the Region Deal Team to ensure clear allocation and consistent execution of roles and responsibilities. They will also work as needed with CELA teams including Government Affairs, Compliance & Ethics, Competition, Cloud & Infrastructure, Customer Security & Trust, Trusted Technology and Product & Services Group.

Required Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal degree AND 6+ years of legal experience with deep understanding/exposure to ASEAN region.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.
• Proven track record in corporate and commercial law, regulatory compliance, and/or litigation management.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally 10 years of legal experience, including leadership/people management responsibilities.
• Experience working in a multinational corporation and/or technology sector is preferred.
• Strong learning agility, astute business acumen and ability to provide pragmatic legal advice.

• Lead and manage the Area legal team and national security team, fostering a high-performance culture aligned with Microsoft's values.
• Provide strategic legal counsel to senior sales leadership and business units on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues. Help shape strategy and execution of strategic sales priorities.
• Ensure compliance with local laws and regulations, and proactively manage legal risks.
• Oversee litigation and disputes matters (excluding HR and consumer disputes), proactive and reactive regulatory engagements, and Public Sector contract negotiations. Represent CELA in the Area Compliance Committee.
• Work with the Regional Deal Team when needed to support regulatory elements of Enterprise Commercial customer contract negotiations. Work with the Region SME&C CELA lead when needed to support regulatory scaled resources such as self-help materials for the SME&C sales motion.
• Work with the Area Government Affairs Lead and Area Ambassador to ensure alignment between policy engagements and other regulatory engagements, and emerging or multidisciplinary regulatory priorities such as privacy, security, AI and critical infrastructure.
• Responsibly leverage outside counsel resources to drive budget efficiencies.
• Collaborate with regional and global legal teams to land Microsoft's global objectives within the Area-specific context, and to drive cross-border projects including CELA Customer and Partner Solutions strategic priorities.
• Represent Microsoft in interactions with senior external stakeholders, including regulators, senior legal officers for private and public sector customers, industry bodies, and legal industry leaders.
• Lead Microsoft's engagement on regulatory and compliance matters relating to national security, critical infrastructure, and relations with Defence and Intelligence customers.
• Manage responses to security incidents and government and customer audits and inquiries.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations .

Legal Counsel (Corporate Law and Legal Procedures)

Job Description

• Manages all Contracts associated to the Company and its subsidiaries

• Proactively provides accurate, relevant and timely legal advice/support in diverse areas including Commercial/Operational Transactions, Corporate Office Transactions (Ad-Hoc Corporate projects and undertakings), Human Resources, Corporate Finance, Governance, Research, Intellectual Property, IT matters, etc.

• Draft, review, negotiate and solidify legal documents such as contracts, statements, agreements, data protection, etc. in best interest of Company

• Apply effective risk management techniques and offer strategic solutions on possible legal issues

• Develops and implements business risk management strategies and offers strategic solutions on possible legal issues

• Be in close communication with internal/ external stakeholders on a variety of legal and risk management topics that relate to the commercialization and their products or services, provide advice on commercial legal matters to meet the Company's strategic objectives

• Ensure compliance with the internal controls, statutory regulations and other formalities

• Creates business guidelines, establishes and manages approval workflows & documentation.

• Execute procedures for protecting patents, trademarks, and industrial designs

• Conduct legal rules and regulations review, cascade findings to team, identify and implement appropriate mechanisms in support for expansion of business operations beyond present set of jurisdictions.

• Communicating with and managing any third-party bodies such as external counsel or auditors and handle litigation

• Promoting legal, compliance and risk management best practice throughout the company.

• Designing and delivering legal training relevant to the business to highlight awareness of & reduce the risk profile of the business;

• Staying up-to-date with changes to legislation, particularly in relation to laws, rules and regulations that directly affect your business and specific industry.

Job Requirement

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Law or equivalent, preferably with one or more years' experience in a commercial setting

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law and legal procedures

• Possess sound judgement and have strong legal analytical, drafting and communication skills

• Close attention to details and the ability to work independently

• Ability to work cross-functionally, a good team player and effectively communicate complex issues to Management and business stakeholders

• Highly organized, experienced with managing numerous deals or projects simultaneously and able to adapt to shifting priorities

• High degree of professional ethics and integrity

Interested applicants pls send in a copy of your resume with your current, expected salaries and availability in Microsoft Word format to Low See Wei (R1551122) for immediate processing.

Kindly indicate in your email subject title as "Job Application for 19816 Legal Counsel (Corporate Law and Legal Procedures) SW228"

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified, other applications will be updated to our database for future job opportunities

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Legal Counsel (Corporate Law and Legal Procedures)

Job Description

• Manages all Contracts associated to the Company and its subsidiaries
• Proactively provides accurate, relevant and timely legal advice/support in diverse areas including Commercial/Operational Transactions, Corporate Office Transactions (Ad-Hoc Corporate projects and undertakings), Human Resources, Corporate Finance, Governance, Research, Intellectual Property, IT matters, etc.
• Draft, review, negotiate and solidify legal documents such as contracts, statements, agreements, data protection, etc. in best interest of Company
• Apply effective risk management techniques and offer strategic solutions on possible legal issues
• Develops and implements business risk management strategies and offers strategic solutions on possible legal issues
• Be in close communication with internal/ external stakeholders on a variety of legal and risk management topics that relate to the commercialization and their products or services, provide advice on commercial legal matters to meet the Company’s strategic objectives
• Ensure compliance with the internal controls, statutory regulations and other formalities
• Creates business guidelines, establishes and manages approval workflows & documentation.
• Execute procedures for protecting patents, trademarks, and industrial designs
• Conduct legal rules and regulations review, cascade findings to team, identify and implement appropriate mechanisms in support for expansion of business operations beyond present set of jurisdictions.
• Communicating with and managing any third-party bodies such as external counsel or auditors and handle litigation
• Promoting legal, compliance and risk management best practice throughout the company.
• Designing and delivering legal training relevant to the business to highlight awareness of & reduce the risk profile of the business;
• Staying up-to-date with changes to legislation, particularly in relation to laws, rules and regulations that directly affect your business and specific industry.

Job Requirement

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Law or equivalent, preferably with one or more years’ experience in a commercial setting
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law and legal procedures
• Possess sound judgement and have strong legal analytical, drafting and communication skills
• Close attention to details and the ability to work independently
• Ability to work cross-functionally, a good team player and effectively communicate complex issues to Management and business stakeholders
• Highly organized, experienced with managing numerous deals or projects simultaneously and able to adapt to shifting priorities
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity

Interested applicants pls send in a copy of your resume with your current, expected salaries and availability in Microsoft Word format to Low See Wei (R1551122) for immediate processing.

Kindly indicate in your email subject title as "Job Application for 19816 Legal Counsel (Corporate Law and Legal Procedures) SW228 "

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified, other applications will be updated to our database for future job opportunities

Thank you.

By submitting any resumes or applications to Pasona Singapore Pte Ltd, you are considered to have read and agreed on the terms of our Privacy Policy, and consented to us collecting, using, retaining, disclosing your personal information to the prospective employers for their consideration.

Please find Privacy Policy Agreement from the below link.