PR
Senior Legal Counsel handling legal agreements and support across multiple jurisdictions in a fintech startup. Collaborating with teams while managing compliance and regulatory matters.
About the role
- 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)
Job title
Job type
Experience level
Salary
Not specified
Degree requirement
Location requirements
FA
Senior Legal Counsel overseeing regulatory matters for luxury fashion platform Farfetch in APAC region. Leading strategic legal advice and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
PT
Palantir TechnologiesLegal Counsel – Contracts
Legal Counsel handling commercial contract negotiations for data - driven software company. Collaborating across teams to enhance procurement efficiency and manage legal compliance.
PT
Palantir TechnologiesLegal Counsel – Contracts
Legal Counsel providing critical support across Palantir by owning the drafting and negotiating of contracts. Collaborating with teams to implement effective contract management workflows.
PT
Palantir TechnologiesLegal Counsel – Contracts
Legal Counsel supporting Palantir's contracting negotiation workflow across various agreements. Collaborating with internal teams to streamline processes and reduce risk in a fast - paced environment.
NE
Legal Counsel responsible for employment and corporate matters at fast - paced AI startup. Join a dynamic team to drive legal initiatives and support business operations in Vilnius.
SE
Switzerland Global EnterpriseExecutive Counsel, Litigation, Wind
Executive Counsel handling significant litigation and arbitration across GE Vernova’s Wind operations. Leading complex legal strategies with an emphasis on major U.S. risks.
CO
Senior Counsel for Institutional Legal team at Coinbase, focusing on derivatives and financial products. Working with high caliber colleagues to shape regulatory strategies in digital currency and blockchain.
NC
NAUS Recrutamento e ConsultoriaLegal Counsel – Energy
Legal Counsel for a global energy company handling energy regulation and project contracts. Seeking candidate with experience in energy sector regulatory matters in a hybrid role.
QA
Queiroz Cavalcanti AdvocaciaAttorney – Consumer Law
Advogado(a) revisando e redigindo peças jurídicas no QCA. Atuando em um ambiente que promove a criatividade e a tecnologia com equipe dinâmica.