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About the role
- Senior Legal Counsel providing regulatory advice for APAC at Farfetch. Leading and managing legal compliance issues across multiple jurisdictions in the region.
Responsibilities
- Provide proactive, strategic and pragmatic advice on areas of managing legal risks in the external business or regulatory environment
- Advise on the local regulatory framework, including payments, digital regulation, consumer protection and competition law in APAC
- Tracking and assessing existing and new requirements for the Farfetch Group, as well as advising on their implementation
- Identifying, monitoring and evaluating relevant regulatory risks and enforcement trends, and taking proactive steps to mitigate these
- Developing strategies for, and engaging with, relevant regulators in APAC
- Oversee payments related matters in APAC, including reviewing the contracts and cooperation with payment processors and ensuring a compliant payment model for the regions responsible
- Work with the delivery team on tariffs matters and advising from legal perspective
- Negotiate, draft and review a broad range of commercial contracts, policies, guidance, corporate documentation and other legal documentation as required by the APAC business and entities, in collaboration with the broader Legal Team
- Building compliance processes, tools, policies and training to educate relevant parts of the Farfetch Group
- Liaise with external law firms, primarily in APAC, where external local support is needed
- Supervising and supporting legal counsel(s), in particular a local Legal Counsel based in and focused on mainland China, in their daily work, namely, BAU contracts review, legal advice giving, co-sec handling to work efficient and smart
- Supporting the Head of Legal, Regulatory and Group Legal VP on legal matters, and especially in ensuring compliance
Requirements
- Be a qualified lawyer with at least 6 years’ PQE, and superior analytical skills and creative problem solving skills. Prior in-house experience would be beneficial
- Have excellent training, preferably in a top tier law firm
- Have experience advising on digital regulation and/or payments
- Have proven ability to assess new pieces of international legislation / regulation and apply them on a risk-based basis to a business
- Have the curiosity and ability to absorb a lot of information quickly, apply it in assessments, and drive implementation
- Be able to understand nuances and complexities, and translate these into commercial, pragmatic, and concise advice in the context of a global business
- Have a strong work ethic and attention to detail, be highly proactive, organized and efficient, able to work on fast moving projects
- Be able to work autonomously but also well in teams, supervising legal counsel and supporting the VP of Legal and Head of Legal (Regulatory)
- Possess excellent communication, organization and drafting skills
- Be driven, forward-thinking, robust, innovative and agile, with commercial acumen
- Fluency in English is a must, ability to speak Mandarin Chinese is appreciated but not necessary.
Benefits
- Employee Pension Scheme
- Flexible Benefits Program
- Health Insurance & Critical Illness cover
- Flexible work environment- Hybrid Model (3 days a week from the office, 2 days from home)
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