Head of Legal and Business Affairs

5 days ago


Singapore ONE ANIMATION PTE. LTD. Full time

We are recruiting for an experienced commercial media lawyer to be responsible for

the Group’s legal and regulatory issues in the Asia-Pacific region.

This will initially be a sole counsel role but we would expect as our business grows in the region to grow the legal team accordingly.

**Responsibilities**:

- Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer and working closely with the CEO, you will be responsible for all the Group's legal and regulatory issues in the Asia
- Pac region
- You will support the Group and their teams, drafting and negotiating production-related agreements, distribution agreements and as the group’s business grows, licensing and and other revenue generating agreements including advertising and marketing.
- You will also, as part of the Group's management team provide day to day legal advice including supporting the HR and Finance teams
- You will give your business colleagues expert commercial, concise and practical legal and business focused advice
- You will develop and provide appropriate legal and compliance training to the business and will maintain best practice contract templates to drive value and efficiency
- Advise senior management at both the regional and global level, on all legal issues encountered by the Group in the region.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements within the region and protect the Group against legal risks and violations.
- Proactively identify and mitigate legal risks arising from the Group’s business and operations within the region.
- Horizon scanning for new laws and regulations that could affect the Group and advise on solutions thereto.
- Manage the legal database for the region, including the proper filing and storage of all signed documents, and maintaining and updating the legal precedent bank for the region.

**Qualifications and Desired Experience**:

- You will be a UK or Singapore qualified commercial lawyer with ideally at least 10 years PQE, with excellent academics and having trained at a leading law firm or recognised in-house business.
- Fluency in English is a requirement. Fluency in additional Asian languages would be a plus.
- Ideally, you will have significant relevant experience working in entertainment and media, in the media department at a law firm or in a media company
- Be able to demonstrate a good understanding of media, content and music issues.
- Strong drafting, negotiation, communication (written and verbal), interpersonal, organisational and computer skills.
- Methodical, meticulous, and with great attention to detail.
- Comfortable and familiar advising senior level executives and working in a multi-national group of companies.
- You will have excellent time management and organisational skills and will be able to, and enjoy, working concurrently on a variety of projects, effectively prioritising and working under demanding deadlines whilst remaining “cool and calm” and very importantly, showing a good sense of humour. A “can do” attitude is essential.
- You enjoy providing timely, pragmatic, and business-focused advice to your business colleagues, across several functions, often in ambiguous situations.
- Travel is mínimal, but this may change as the business develops.



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