An independent commodity trading firm headquartered in Singapore with business
presence across Asia and Africa. As a result of steady expansion of the business
acvity across core geographies have decided to make a number of key hires. We
guarantee unique team spirit, exitng professional challenges which are well rewarded and true multicultural and tolerant working environment.
We are looking to hire an experienced professional as General counsel who will able to bring wealth of experience in the area of commodity trading (ideally Oil & Gas background).
As a pioneer legal hire, the successful candidate will work closely with the Founder, Business Development and Geography Coverage Heads as well as Traders on all legal matters.
Обязанности:
• Main focus - corporate legal structuring (existing and new companies).
• Supervision over and maintenance of existing international group of companies;
• Organize all required workstreams and maintain a number of existing JVs;
• Provide full fledge in house legal support for creation of new JVs (cooperation
agreements and other documents governing relations between the parties of the
JVs);
• Design legal solutions to accommodate enquiries of Business Development and
Trading Departments (convenient and resilient cross-border seLlements, maximized
protection);
• Set up new companies in wide range of jurisdictions;
• Supervision over legal risks and recurring optimisation of existing solutions;
Требования:
• Degree in law from a reputable university;
• Minimum of 8 years post-qualification experience in a law firm or as a legal counsel with industry-relevant experience (in an oil, energy, and/or commodities trading company);
• Strong ability to work independently and collaboratively with other departments
such as operations, traders, trade finance, and shipping;
• Excellent written, interpersonal, and communication skills;
• Comfortable working collaboratively and independently.
