The Role
Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow, is looking for a legal professional who has extensive cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, and corporate reorganisation transactional experience across a range of industry sectors.
The Team
With broad global coverage and comprehensive local knowledge, we offer a unique combination of skills to help our clients effectively manage the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Singapore and the rest of Asia. Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow is a joint law venture between Baker McKenzie and Wong & Leow LLC, a Singapore law firm. This enables us to advise our clients on both domestic Singapore law issues and cross-border issues.
As counsel of choice to many companies using Singapore as a hub for their regional operations, our lawyers are adept at managing multi-jurisdictional transactions and neutralizing cross-border risk. Our Singapore office is part of a network that offers experts based on the ground across ASEAN countries as well as access to Baker McKenzie's wider international network. This makes us ideally placed to support not only the domestic but also the cross-border needs of our clients.
The Candidate
- Minimum 7 years of cross-border M&A and joint ventures and corproate reorganisations transactional experience in a similar top-tier or leading international law firm;
- Exceptional technical, drafting, and commercial skills;
- Strong client service orientation;
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team (including across Asia Pacific offices and internationally);
- Strong business development aptitude, interest and experience;
- Relevant legal qualifications;
- Strong academic background;
- Keen and analytical mind, good at legal analysis and with a knack for problem-solving;
- Commitment to high work standards; and
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Personal qualities are also important to us, so we are keen on people who take initiative, are committed to excellence, and are good problem solvers. We also want people who are comfortable working in teams where friendship is valued.
