Legal Counsel

2 weeks ago

Singapore Trafigura Full time

Main Purpose:

  • To provide legal advice and transaction support to Trafigura's developing business across the APAC region (for example, on corporate, M&A, finance and other contractual matters).
  • To provide additional advice, as necessary, in connection with contentious and regulatory matters across the entire portfolio of Trafigura's commercial trading activities, including the trading of physically and financially settled oil, oil products, coal, metals, power and carbon.
  • 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.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

  • To be the first point of contact in the region for the provision of legal services, with a focus on transactional matters, including advising on joint venture agreements, share purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements, structured trade financerelated documentation including prepayments, banking facilities, sale and purchase contracts and other related documentation.
  • To provide additional advice, as necessary, including:
  • Contentious Advice: Assisting during all stages of disputes from initial advice to managing arbitration, civil litigation, mediation and enforcement proceedings, primarily with respect to trading and shipping disputes, but also other disputes or investigations as necessary.
  • Regulatory Advice: Relating to applicable regulations in respect of new and existing business across the APAC region, including in relation to sanctions, antibribery and corruption and financial regulation including with respect to derivatives and futures trading.
  • To identify key legal risks and to report these to management and the commercial stakeholders in a timely and proactive manner and to develop effective and practical strategies to mitigate the same.
  • To work as part of the wider Global Legal Team in providing excellent legal service to the business in a dynamic and fastpaced 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 adhoc basis and as part of established training programs in relation to legal and compliance policies.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

  • Legal professional qualification with at least 4 to 6 years post qualification experience.
  • Qualified in either the UK, Singapore, Australia or New Zealand with credible private practice experience in such jurisdiction.
  • Preference for inhouse experience in a trading or equivalent commercial environment, with significant international and cross border experience.
  • Broad range of legal skills, with a focus on transactional work.
  • Good IT and organisational skills.
  • Excellent command of the English language.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Internal and external stakeholders

About Us
Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects the world with the vital resources it needs.

Through our Oil & Petroleum Products, Metals and Minerals, and Power and Renewables divisions, we deploy infrastructure, skills and a global network to move commodities from where they are plentiful to where they are needed most, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.


Trafigura also owns and operates a number of industrial assets including a majority share of global multi-metals producer Nyrstar and fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nala Renewables, a power and renewable energy investment and development platform.

With over 1,000 shareholders, Trafigura is owned by its employees and employs over 13,000 people working in 48 countries.

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