Legal Counsel

DKSH


Date: 1 week ago
City: Petaling Jaya
Contract type: Full time
Job Summary:

Manage the resolution of all country in-house legal/contract matters as part of the function's legal management role.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Contract management and resolution of legal matters related to all types of commercial contracts, including but not limited to IT/Software contracts whilst ensuring compliance with the Company’s policies, governance/compliance/code of business conduct/ethics/corporate social responsibility, etc.
  • Responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of all types of commercial contracts, including but not limited to IT/Software contracts, business contracts, agreements, documents etc. whilst ensuring compliance with the Company’s policies, governance/compliance/code of business conduct/ethics/corporate social responsibility, etc.
  • Manage country legal/compliance projects to ensure areas needing change and improvement are acted upon.
  • Provide legal advisory to internal stakeholders. Gain better understanding of the business and its various processes to enhance the quality of legal advice given.
  • Build and maintain long-term relationships with external legal advisors/legal community to keep up to date with laws, regulations, and best practices.
  • Build and maintain excellent working relationships with internal stakeholders of the Company.
  • Assist the Director of Legal in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei legal matters.
  • Manage the internal legal contract database for DKSH Group.
  • Responsible in conducting legal trainings and user trainings in managing the legal contract database with internal stakeholders.
  • Responsible in conducting legal trainings and user trainings to all internal stakeholders.
  • Handling of trademarks - manage and keep track of Group Trademarks, functioning as the key liaison with trademark solicitors.
  • Advise on issues relating to litigation matters and debt recovery actions, including monitoring of status of cases.
  • Manage external counsels for litigation and corporate matters and oversee all works related thereto.
  • Attend to administrative procedures to manage business legal implications.
  • Administer due diligence processes and activities within the country to enforce a structured approach to legal management.
  • Preparation of key litigations/arbitrations, interactions with external legal counsels and represent the country in key legal proceedings to ensure DKSH's interests are well protected.
  • Prepare and provide response on court/legal documents/pleadings.
  • Conduct legal research in relation to the assignments given.
  • Attend to all legal matters/tasks or other ad-hoc matters/tasks as assigned from time to time.


Job Requirements:

  • Degree in Law from top-tier university in Malaysia or abroad
  • Qualified to practice law. Admission to the Malaysian Bar is preferred
  • Minimum ten (10) years’ experience practicing law in a law firm with business law orientation or in the in-house legal department of an organization, ideally locally listed
  • Exposure and substantial experience in the Healthcare, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Performance Materials, Technology industries is preferred
  • Extensive experience in legal management (e.g. organization of a legal service team, definition of a coverage and sourcing model, reporting, alternative billing methods, legal process outsourcing, knowledge of the relevant technology capacity
  • Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of the business and industry
  • Demonstrate advanced knowledge of corporate law, contract and commercial law, IT/Software-related law, including country-specific laws
  • Demonstrate fluency in English (both written and spoken). Proficiency in any other language is an additional asset
  • Demonstrate appreciation and respect for cultural sensitivities especially in cross-country/culture interactions
  • Demonstrate ability to handle highly sensitive and confidential information with integrity
  • Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
  • Demonstrate knowledge of adaptation of the law within the cultural/legal framework of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei


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