ELEVATE is looking for a senior and experienced professional Legal Counsel to lead the legal function globally; understand the strategies and objectives of the global business effectively communicate the risks and legal issues involved in any decision to management.

Responsibilities

• Provide a full range of legal support and advice to the Group to ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations
• Provide professional legal advice in regarding to Corporate and Commercial issues
• Review, draft and solidify commercial contractual agreements, legal documents and correspondences to ensure the Group’s full legal rights
• Provide accurate and timely legal counsel to management on a variety of legal topics on labour law, partnership, international ventures, corporate finance and the corporate matters of the Group
• Provide guidance to management on proposed business strategies and programs for securing compliance and collaborate with the management to devise efficient defence strategies
• Develop internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance to reduce legal risk; lead the Company Risk Committee to identify, report and mitigate risk faced
• Keep abreast of all new laws and regulations that may have implications to the Group

• Communicate and liaise with external parties such as regulators, external counsel, public authority etc. and create relations of trust
• Handle legal and certain compliance matters and enquiries from both internal and external parties
• Support overseas company set-up
• Perform Corporate Secretarial responsibilities when necessary
• Undertake any other ad-hoc legal matters and assignments from senior management

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with about 9-12 years of post-qualification experience gained with international law firm, MNC or sizable corporate
• Well-founded legal expertise in commercial contractual agreements and legal documents drafting and reviewing, commercial dispute resolution or litigation
• Conduct work with integrity and responsibility
• Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information
• Good interpersonal and communication skills in communicating to all stakeholders
• Experience in having M&A deals is a plus but not a must
• Excellent command of written and spoken English and Chinese

For interested candidates, please apply now and send your resume with indication of your latest and expected monthly salary as well as your earliest availability to our Human Resources Department.

Information provided will be treated in strict confidence and used for employment purpose within the Group only.