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As Senior Counsel for Product Legal, you'll advise on legal and regulatory aspects during the product lifecycle, collaborating across jurisdictions to ensure compliance and launching products effectively.
About the Role
We are seeking a commercially astute and versatile Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal team. This role is ideal for a corporate lawyer with in-house experience, preferably within the real estate or asset management sectors. You will play a key role in providing legal advice and support for the company’s investment and enterprise activities, managing legal and regulatory risk, and executing the business’ strategy.
Key Responsibilities
As a key member of our Group Legal team, you will:
- Provide strategic legal advice and support for complex real estate investments, joint ventures, acquisitions, divestments, and fund structures across multiple jurisdictions.
- Partner closely with investment teams and external counsel to resolve Group-level transactional issues, ensuring alignment with ESR’s commercial objectives and legal standards.
- Lead the negotiation and review of commercial contracts, including service agreements, vendor arrangements, NDAs, and technology-related matters.
- Provide timely legal advice to core functions including HR, IT, Finance, Tax, and Operations teams on corporate and regulatory matters.
- Contribute to ESR-wide initiatives by developing and interpreting enterprise and business unit-specific governance policies and procedures.
- Anticipate and manage legal risks associated with new products, business strategies, and market expansion initiatives.
- Act as a key legal liaison for selected markets, ensuring local compliance while maintaining consistency with Group legal standards, and provide legal support to local teams, where required.
- Work in close partnership with ESR’s compliance and corporate governance teams to uphold the Group’s integrity and operational resilience.
- Tackle a wide range of legal matters as they arise in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with at least 6+ years of post-qualification experience.
- Strong corporate and transactional law background, ideally gained from a top-tier law firm and/or real estate investment or asset management company.
- Proven ability to work independently but also collaborate with others.
- Experience with commercial contracts, and investor documentation.
- Familiarity with cross-border transactions and working across multiple jurisdictions.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive, pragmatic, and business-minded with strong attention to detail.
ESR Group Singapore Office
5 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower Five, Singapore, 038985
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