Legal Counsel

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

Job Responsibilities:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Manage country legal/compliance projects to ensure areas needing change and improvement are acted upon.
4. Provide legal advisory to internal stakeholders. Gain better understanding of the business and its various processes to enhance the quality of legal advice given.
5. Build and maintain long-term relationships with external legal advisors/legal community to keep up to date with laws, regulations, and best practices.
6. Build and maintain excellent working relationships with internal stakeholders of the Company.
7. Assist the Director of Legal in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei legal matters.
8. Manage the internal legal contract database for DKSH Group.
9. Responsible in conducting legal trainings and user trainings in managing the legal contract database with internal stakeholders.
10. Responsible in conducting legal trainings and user trainings to all internal stakeholders.
11. Handling of trademarks - manage and keep track of Group Trademarks, functioning as the key liaison with trademark solicitors.
12. Advise on issues relating to litigation matters and debt recovery actions, including monitoring of status of cases.
13. Manage external counsels for litigation and corporate matters and oversee all works related thereto.
14. Attend to administrative procedures to manage business legal implications.
15. Administer due diligence processes and activities within the country to enforce a structured approach to legal management.
16. 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.
17. Prepare and provide response on court/legal documents/pleadings.
18. Conduct legal research in relation to the assignments given.
19. Attend to all legal matters/tasks or other ad-hoc matters/tasks as assigned from time to time.

Job Requirements:

1. Degree in Law from top-tier university in Malaysia or abroad
2. Qualified to practice law. Admission to the Malaysian Bar is preferred
3. 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
4. Exposure and substantial experience in the Healthcare, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Performance Materials, Technology industries is preferred
5. 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)
6. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of the business and industry
7. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of corporate law, contract and commercial law, IT/Software-related law, including country-specific laws
8. Demonstrate fluency in English (both written and spoken). Proficiency in any other language is an additional asset
9. Demonstrate appreciation and respect for cultural sensitivities especially in cross-country/culture interactions
10. Demonstrate ability to handle highly sensitive and confidential information with integrity
11. Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
12. Demonstrate knowledge of adaptation of the law within the cultural/legal framework of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei