Total 3 legal counsel job vacancies in Singapore

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantialand diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

ABOUT OUR LEGAL DIVISION

The Legal Department provides high quality legal advice, transactional advice, regulatory advice, litigation oversight and advice on compliance and reputational issues. Our goal is to help our businesses complete their transactions and understand and weigh the risks associated with our activities. In many cases, our lawyers, along with other professionals, assist the business areas in structuring transactions in order to capitalize on business opportunities while optimizing risk. The Legal Department maintains offices in New York and most other major financial centers around the world. The Legal Department is organized into practice groups that provide dedicated service to the firm’s various businesses.

ABOUT THE TREASURY LEGAL GROUP

The Legal Department is organized into practice groups that provide dedicated service to the firm’s various businesses. The Treasury Legal group in US provides legal support to The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., the parent company of Goldman Sachs. The Treasury Legal group in Singapore provides legal support to APAC entities located in various jurisdictions (including China, HK, Japan, and India). Globally, the group has a major presence in the New York office and London office.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As an analyst in the Treasury Legal group, you will work closely with business professionals across the firm, as well as with outside counsel. Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with Goldman Sachs sales and trading desks, both in APAC and internationally, to prepare offering documents for structured products and develop new structured products
• Working with the firm’s Corporate Treasury group on treasury activities for the firm, including debt and preferred stock offerings, bank loans, dividend payments, secured funding and guarantees
• Working with the firm’s Financial Reporting, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations groups to prepare periodic regulatory filings in various jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

You may also be involved in a wide variety of projects involving:

• Transactional advice
• Regulatory advice, including advising on cross-border transactions, selling products under different market regimes (China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and other APAC jurisdictions)
• General legal advisory services, including frequent coordination with outside counsel
• Documentation review
• Negotiation
• Advice on compliance and reputational issues.

WHO CAN APPLY

• Bachelor's degree required
• Recent college / university graduates with up to 2 years of work experience
• Corporate law firm paralegal experience a plus.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

At Goldman Sachs, we think who you are makes you better at what you do. We seek out people with all types of skills, interests and experiences. Curious, collaborative and driven? Let’s chat. Here are some of the qualities we look for:

• Keen interest in law and finance
• Strong analytical and organizational skills; the ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; the ability to clearly articulate ideas
• Highly motivated and adaptable; the ability to work with a team of diverse individuals
• Proactive; the ability to respond creatively and quickly in a fast-paced, high pressure, changing environment.
• Accurate and detail-oriented

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

LEGAL

We work at the intersection of finance and law, providing counsel and advice that support activities across the firm. We handle litigation and arbitration, perform research and due diligence, aid in financing and legal filings, deal with contracts and intellectual property rights that show our commitment to clients, shareholders, and regulators. Whether you’re an experienced attorney or a quick learner with a strong interest in financial law coupled with critical thinking skills, our dynamic group might be right for you.

WHO WE ARE

The GS Legal Department (“GS Legal”) plays an essential role in the formulation and implementation of the strategy of GS. The advice and counsel provided by GS Legal to all areas of the firm is critical to maintaining the firm’s commitments to its clients, regulators, and shareholders and to promoting its culture of excellence and integrity. GS Legal’s goal is to provide advice that protects the firm’s financial well-being and reputation, and assists the various businesses in executing transactions and evaluating the associated risks.

YOUR IMPACT

Whether you’re an experienced attorney or a quick learner with a strong interest in financial law coupled with critical thinking skills, our dynamic group might be right for you.

The role will be based in Singapore and will be focused on the Commodities business of the Global Markets Division.

Role Description

This will include providing support to our product lawyers as well as providing advice and assistance to our traders and sales people on a broad range of legal and regulatory matters across Commodities and Global Markets more broadly. Key responsibilities include the following:

• Providing legal advice to the Commodities business, support for our regional Commodities business and assisting on related agreements and other documentation;
• General focus on all other Global Markets businesses across flow and structured derivatives and sales and trading;
• Advising on regulatory matters impacting the Commodities business (including global and local regulations);
• Preparing, maintaining and updating precedent legal documentation and agreements to incorporate changes in applicable law and regulations, Goldman Sachs offshore policy or changes in market practice;
• Working with the Global Markets Compliance team on regulatory matters and investigations.
• Liaise with Legal and Compliance personnel at Goldman Sachs locally, regionally and globally on issues relating to the Global Markets Division;
• Assisting in the preparation of materials for submission to the internal Goldman Sachs regional and global committees.

The role requires the ability to work independently and to manage a diverse and complex workload meeting tight deadlines. Lawyers in our team work closely with a diverse group of clients across our trading floors and thrive on the pressures of delivering consistently high quality advice to a dynamic, and constantly evolving, business.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualified lawyers with minimum 5 years PQE;
• Relevant post-qualification experience with a reputable law firm or as in-house counsel;
• An ability to demonstrate a strong grounding in financing and comodities, securities law and regulation

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more:

https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2024. All rights reserved.

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

We work at the intersection of finance and law, providing counsel and advice that support activities across the firm. Professionals within the Legal Division provide high quality legal advice, transactional and regulatory advice, litigation oversight, and advise on compliance and reputational issues. Our goal is to help our businesses understand, navigate and weigh the risks associated with business related activities. Whether you’re an experienced attorney or a quick learner with a strong interest in financial law coupled with critical thinking skills, our dynamic group might be right for you.

Technology, Sourcing & Intellectual Property
The Legal Division is looking for a legal counsel to be part of the Technology, Sourcing & Intellectual Property (TSIP) team tasked with advising, counseling, structuring and negotiating technology, outsourcing and intellectual property-related transactions and will provide legal support for the firm’s core technology / engineering and strategic sourcing divisions and for the firm’s contracting initiatives in Asia Pacific, working closely with Senior Counsel (based in Singapore) responsible for the firm’s regional contracts.

This position offers an opportunity to work closely with stakeholders across different business teams, including from the technology / engineering division, as well as internal business lines, in connection with the development of new financial technology products, services and capabilities, and to interact closely with colleagues throughout the firm’s Legal and Compliance functions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drafting and negotiating a wide range of contracts with various external service providers and consultants, including technology agreements, SaaS, software, data and content licensing, professional services agreements. intellectual property arrangements, corporate services, operations, security, tax and audit engagement letters.
• Review and advise on laws and developments in law related to technology and cybersecurity.
• Review and advise on data privacy and intellectual property related matters, in collaboration with divisional and other specialist lawyers.
• Coordinate and review outsourcing processes.
• Provide general legal and contract related advice.
• Draft, review and coordinate internal services agreements.
• Review and maintain library of contract templates and manage shared document library, including updating templates and related source documents.
• Instructing/working with/manage external counsel and consultants.
• Working closely with internal business clients and Legal and Compliance colleagues in identifying, assessing, and advising on various regulatory issues.
• Working with internal business clients and Legal and Compliance colleagues regarding the structuring, negotiation, and execution of complex transactions.
• Working with other relevant groups throughout the firm, including Legal, Compliance, Risk, Controllers, Tax, etc.and ensure that the firm’s standard provisions are incorporated into all transactions and activities.
• Uphold the firm’s principles, business controls, ethics, policies and procedures, and professional standards.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Approximately of 3-7 years post qualification experience required, preferably in a mix of top tier law firm and in-house experience within financial services or FinTech companies.
• Knowledge of technology, information security, data protection and privacy, outsourcing, intellectual property, and contract laws and regulations.
• Significant experience in reviewing, advising, and negotiating on technology licensing and services contracts, including for data, software, digital platforms, or other technology services.
• Experience partnering with fast-paced internal clients and supporting business objectives, demonstrated commitment to excellence, highly motivated with a strong work ethic.
• Strong organizational skills to prioritize and manage multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, team player with sound commercial and legal judgment, keen business acumen, strong analytical skills and ability to take firm positions to protect the firm’s interest.
• Comfortable engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders and senior executives and to build strong working relationships, ability to work collaboratively and willingness to be part of a Legal team that is dispersed geographically.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• High level of initiative, integrity and organization.
• Excellent academic credentials.
• Proficient in English and Chinese languages (written and verbal) because this role will liaise with both English and Chinese speaking clients and regulatory counterparts, in relation to intellectual property and new financial technology products.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2024. All rights reserved.

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity