Legal Counsel (Marine/Shipyard)

Industry: Oil / Gas / Petroleum

Specialism: Legal / Secretarial Services - Legal / Secretarial Services

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South West,Singapore SGD 7,000 - 9,800

About Company

Our Client is Listed on SGX Mainboard and headquartered in Singapore. They are a global leader in the detailed engineering, fabrication and construction of offshore FPSO (floating production storage offloading) and FSO (floating storage offloading) topside modules as well as onshore plants and other sub-sea products for the oil and gas industries, They have yards spanning across Singapore and Malaysia, with presence in the Philippines, China and Brazil.

Job Description

- Provide legal support and advice to upper management on relevant legal issues
- Draft legal documents such as contracts, statements, agreements etc.
- Review and negotiate a wide range of project commercial contracts
- Ensure compliance with the internal controls, statutory regulations and other formalities
- Calculate and handle risks in business process and decision making
- Execute procedures for protecting patents, trademarks, and industrial designs
- Handle litigation
- Keeping up with current changes on all relevant areas of laws and contributing to the enhancement of the knowledge base of the company’s legal function
- Review, standardisation, maintaining templates of legal documents
- Ensuring compliance in accordance to constitutions/regulations, statutory and listing rules and code of corporate governance for public listed company

Job Requirements

- Degree in Law or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience, preferably in Marine/Oil & Gas industry
- Familiar with company law and corporate transactions
- Meticulous and good organisation skills
- Good interpersonal and communications skills
- Able to work well independently as well as in a team
- IT savvy and proficiency in Microsoft Office

Compensation

- Competitive compensation benefits
- Company’s transport available