Key responsibilities:
Whilst based in Singapore, the role is to manage the Legal team in Singapore and legal issues across the APAC region from India and Pakistan to China and New Zealand. The primarily responsibilities of the Legal team in Singapore are:
- To provide legal advice in connection with contentious, transactional and regulatory matters across the entire portfolio of Trafigura’s commercial trading activities and operations (including transportation, warehousing and storage of commodities). Such commodities include physically and financially settled oil, oil products, bulk commodities (including coal and iron ore), non-ferrous concentrates and refined metals, renewables, power and carbon.
- To provide additional legal support, as necessary, in connection with ancillary elements of Trafigura’s business, including banking finance, structured trade finance, credit, exchange trading (both physical and derivative products), compliance, tax and corporate affairs.
- To work to meet the legal demands of Trafigura’s business and to provide advice in a clear, succinct and practical manner often under tight time constraints and commercial imperatives.
To report key legal risks and provide timely and proactive updates on ongoing legal matters to (and keep apprised) Management and commercial stakeholders and to develop effective and practical strategies to mitigate the same.
To be the first point of contact in the region for the provision of legal services, including:
- Contentious Advice: Assisting during all stages of disputes from initial advice to managing arbitration, litigation, mediation and enforcement proceedings, primarily with respect to trading and shipping disputes, but also other disputes or investigations as necessary.
- Transactional Advice: Advising on joint venture agreements, share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, structured trade finance-related documentation including prepayments, banking facilities, sale and purchase contracts and other related documentation.
- Regulatory Advice: Relating to applicable regulations in respect of new and existing business across the APAC region, including in relation to sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption and financial regulation including with respect to derivatives and futures trading.
To work as part of the wider Global Legal Team in providing excellent legal service to the business in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.
To procure and manage, where necessary, external legal advice and support.
To work as an effective member of the Global Legal Team and to establish strong working relationships across the business.
Planning, developing and providing training to staff on legal issues and on an ad-hoc basis and as part of established training programs in relation to legal and compliance policies.
Key Requirements:
Education, Experience, Skills:
- Legal professional qualification with at least 10 years post qualification experience.
- Preference for qualification in either the UK, Singapore, Australia or New Zealand with credible private practice experience in such jurisdiction.
- In-house experience in a trading or equivalent commercial environment, with significant international and cross border experience.
- Broad range of legal skills.
- Good IT and organisational skills.
- Excellent command of the English language.
Core Competencies:
- Track record of managing a high performing team.
- Effective leadership skills.
- Positive, self-motivated, committed, pro-active and efficient.
- Excellent communication skills to communicate complex legal issues and advice in an easily digestible manner.
- Ability to relate to commercial staff and management under pressure and with commercial perspective.
- Ability to develop strong working relationships with people at all levels, across the business.
- High integrity is essential.
