Draft, review and negotiate routine and lower-risk contracts (service, agency, referral, NDAs, appointments, vendor, variations); escalate matters outside agreed thresholds with a risk summary.
Review tenders and awarded contracts, prepare qualifications and clarifications to deadlines, and hand over key obligations to delivery teams.
Maintain templates and update when necessary; administer the contract register, file executed copies and flag key dates in advance.
Ensure legal documents are signed in accordance with the delegation of authority.
Business Advisory
Give practical, plain English advice to business units to move business forward, as a commercially-minded counsel.
Triage requests, resolve those within remit, and escalate high-risk matters with a recommended position.
Corporate Secretarial
Draft board and shareholder resolutions, certified extracts and signatory mandates; circulate for signing and track completion.
Coordinate with the external corporate secretarial provider on ACRA filings, statutory registers and annual deadlines; keep director, shareholder and delegation of authority records current.
Compliance and Group Reporting
Coordinate LCR inputs to APAC and Group reporting to the reporting calendar; collate data from business units and subsidiaries and prepare drafts for the Director's review.
Support the group's ESG compliance obligations from the legal and compliance side, including policies, audits and questionnaires.
External Counsel and Vendors
Handle work in-house where possible and scope and manage external counsel where needed; onboard vendors, process invoices and track fees against estimates.
Requirements
Minimum 3 years' PQE in commercial or corporate work; in-house and real estate, construction or facilities management experience an advantage.
Hands-on experience with tenders and commercial contract negotiation; working knowledge of the Singapore regulatory environment for real estate services an advantage.
Strong drafting and negotiation skills; clear, practical advice to non-lawyers.
Commercially-minded; problem-solver.
Organised, proactive and discreet; manages a high volume of matters, registers and deadlines in a lean team; proficient in Microsoft Office.
