Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Singapore

The Senior Legal Counsel will provide legal support for capital markets transactions, compliance with SEC regulations, M&A, and corporate governance at Bitdeer.

Provides commercial legal advice and negotiates contracts for property, planning, leasing, acquisitions, and capital projects across the Asia Pacific and Japan region. Supports site selection, develops contractual frameworks and policies, monitors property and foreign investment regulations, manages compliance initiatives, and advises on claims and disputes. Partners with legal, development, site selection, and business leadership teams to support data centre expansion.

Provide end-to-end legal support for global vendor, services, sponsorship and marketing contracts. Draft, negotiate and maintain templates, playbooks and CLM workflows; advise on liability, indemnity, IP, data/privacy, insurance and service levels. Partner with Procurement, Finance and cross-functional LRC teams, manage external counsel, and drive LegalTech/AI-enabled process improvements and training.

Provides strategic legal and regulatory advice on insurance, wealth, and high-net-worth products from concept through launch. Partners with senior leaders across Product, Distribution, Actuarial, Operations, and Compliance; supports product governance, commercial arrangements, regulatory engagement, and strategic business initiatives. Translates regulatory developments into practical advice, represents Legal with regulators and governance committees, contributes to regional and global policy discussions, and mentors junior legal team members.

The Senior Legal Counsel APAC will oversee legal, regulatory, compliance, governance, and commercial contracting matters across APAC jurisdictions. Responsibilities include advising executives and business teams, negotiating complex agreements, managing corporate entities and filings, overseeing privacy and compliance programs, directing disputes and litigation, advising on employment law, and supporting M&A, joint ventures, and strategic investments. The role also manages external counsel and provides legal training and risk guidance.

Provide legal support for APJ commercial and technology transactions, negotiate complex SaaS and AI-related agreements, manage cross-border and Japan-specific contracting, develop APJ templates and playbooks, advise Sales and stakeholders, coordinate outside counsel, and train regional teams on contracting practices.

Build and lead the legal function across a multi-entity, international gaming group. Advise on regulatory licensing, corporate governance, M&A, commercial contracts, intellectual property, data protection, compliance, disputes, litigation, employment matters, and risk management. Establish legal processes, templates, and training programs; manage external counsel; and provide commercially focused legal guidance to executives and business stakeholders across jurisdictions.

Provides legal advice for infrastructure investments and terminal projects across Asia Pacific, covering concessions, joint ventures, acquisitions, construction, development, and operational readiness. Drafts and negotiates complex project, EPC, FIDIC-based, and development agreements; manages concession compliance, claims, disputes, risks, external counsel, and contract governance. Partners with senior stakeholders, contractors, governmental authorities, and regional legal and business teams.

Provides proactive strategic legal advice and guidance to internal teams across APAC on business issues and risks. Collaborates with diverse internal stakeholders and cultures, manages multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, develops specialized legal expertise, and participates in trade association working groups.

Provide legal strategy and execution for banking, payments, issuing and embedded finance partnerships. Negotiate complex cross-border deals, build playbooks, templates and AI-enabled workflows, maintain contract repositories and risk registers, and advise product, risk and commercial teams on launches and strategic partnerships.

Provide regional legal advice and risk management support; draft, review and negotiate commercial and outsourcing agreements; manage external counsel; collaborate with internal stakeholders and global Legal team on group initiatives.

Provides prosecution and legal advisory services for statutory offences under Singapore land transport laws. Supports enforcement and investigation divisions, advises on emerging transport technologies, drafts legal documents, and liaises with the Attorney-General’s Chambers, State Courts, and Singapore Police Force. Training is provided in advocacy, court craft, criminal procedure, and evidence.

Provides legal counsel on global regulatory licensing across Singapore, the United States, Hong Kong, and Australia, while supporting corporate, commercial, disputes, compliance, partnerships, and governance matters. Drafts policies, governance documents, memoranda, and contracts; manages external counsel and regulator relationships; advises Compliance, Partnerships, Sales, and Business teams; and independently coordinates cross-border workstreams across multiple time zones.

Provide business-facing legal advice for commercial contracts (processor agreements, NDAs, novations, guarantees), draft and negotiate agreements, partner with global legal teams on regulatory, product and strategic matters, create templates/policies, and drive process and productivity improvements.

Serve as legal domain expert bridging clients and internal engineering to define negotiation playbooks, translate legal rules into prompts/specs, validate AI outputs, lead UAT, and guide integration of GenAI and CLM contract tools for complex commercial negotiation workflows.

Act as a bilingual legal-technology expert architecting AI-powered contract solutions and drafting CLM redlining rules (80%). Serve as legal tech SME in client meetings, test and improve AI legal tools, train global teams, and handle in-house client/supplier contracts, compliance, and corporate governance (20%).

As a Legal Counsel, you will provide legal strategies, lead M&A negotiations, oversee compliance in product launches, and manage legal disputes, all within a banking environment.

The Legal Counsel will manage compliance and legal affairs, draft and review contracts, participate in disputes, and provide legal consultation to support various business operations.

Provide legal and contract support for CPS and PAY business lines across Southeast Asia: draft, negotiate and manage contracts throughout project lifecycles; ensure compliance (antitrust, anticorruption, GDPR, trade); conduct third-party screening and compliance analyses; manage disputes and external counsel; lead governance, templates, training, and stakeholder coordination. Regular regional travel required.

Provide regional legal and contract management support for Identity & Biometrics Solutions across Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Own contract lifecycle, draft and negotiate agreements, manage contractual risks, ensure compliance (third‑party screening, GDPR, trade/anticorruption), coordinate with operations and litigation teams, maintain auditable documentation, and deliver legal guidance, templates, and training to stakeholders.

Provide regional antitrust and competition counsel across 10+ APAC markets: advise on commercial agreements, lead regulatory investigations, design and implement compliance programs, create dawn-raid readiness, translate regulatory developments into practical guidance, and deliver global training to stakeholders to balance legal risk with commercial objectives.

Serve as senior in-house counsel delivering corporate legal strategy, governance, M&A, restructurings, joint ventures and cross-border projects. Provide proactive business-focused advice, draft and review legal documents, manage complex multi-jurisdictional matters, train non-legal colleagues, and partner with regional teams to mitigate risk and enable business objectives.

Lead legal subject matter expert for global financial crime matters including sanctions, AML/CFT, ABC, fraud, and market abuse. Provide authoritative legal advice, manage regulatory and law-enforcement engagement, oversee investigations and enforcement responses, advise on product and market-entry risks, manage external counsel, develop policies and training, and monitor global regulatory developments.

Provide corporate legal advice for the xScale business across M&A, joint ventures, monetizations, financings, restructurings and related real estate and energy transactions. Lead due diligence, negotiate JV and ancillary agreements, manage external counsel, support exits and restructurings, and implement process improvements. Collaborate with Tax, Treasury, Corporate Development and Asset Management across the Asia‑Pacific region.

Provide Singapore-based legal counsel for Optiver's APAC trading business, advising on regulatory matters, legal structuring, ISDA and OTC documentation, commercial contracting (software/IT/market data), product approvals, onboarding counterparties, and cross-border legal support. Act as primary local legal contact and collaborate with regional/global legal, compliance, trading, and business teams to support growth and scaling initiatives.