Legal Counsel(J17091)
CICC
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Providing legal support to management and business units regarding applicable laws and regulations and participate in new business processes with the business and risk areas.
- Handling investment banking ECM, DCM and M&A transactions, and reviewing and negotiating contracts and legal documents.
- Developing and maintaining a strong awareness of legal and regulatory matters within CICC by updating management and employees on legal related matters.
- Putting in place appropriate training and creating new policies and procedures to reflect the changes or updating existing ones, which includes changes to financial services regulation.
- Exercising sound business and legal judgment and demonstrate the highest degree of professionalism when dealing with clients and colleagues.
- Providing legal advice, and daily support to different business units within CICC Singapore and other CICC Southeast Asia offices.
- Provide support to legal colleagues in Singapore office on other areas of work including but not limited to equities trading, FICC, wealth management and employment law matters.
- Provide support to CICC SG CEO.
- Work with legal teams in other jurisdictions.
- Must have exposure to capital markets, IPO, M&A and other investment banking products and private equity work.
- Experience in secondary market work such as equities trading, FICC and wealth management is a plus.
- Familiar with Singapore laws and regulations.
- Good working attitude, team player, and able to work well and respond promptly under pressure.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with fluency in written and spoken English.
- Fluency in Mandarin is a plus.
- A person with initiative who can work well in a group as well as independently, and is committed to seeing a project to its completion.
- Highly responsible, diligent, with strong integrity and professional ethics.
- Strong analytical and evaluation skills.
- Good drafting skills.
- Attentive to detail.
- Minimum 5 PQE in leading investment banks or capital market law firms in Singapore.
- Law degree from reputable law school.
- Singapore qualified lawyer.