Manager, Legal Counsel, Apac

**About Vantage Data Centers**

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

You will be responsible for legal support of client agreements in Asia Pacific, including data center leases, service agreements, colocation agreements, order forms, and related documents. In addition to providing excellent legal expertise and support, you will bring a proactive, business, and solution-oriented mindset to legal matters, an enterprise lens, and a proven ability to work collaboratively across the organization. You will ideally have data center or related technology expertise, in-house or law firm experience, strong business acumen, enterprise leadership, passion for growing a business, and experience in continuous improvement and driving enhancements that benefit the Company.

**Essential Job Functions**

Legal Guidance and Negotiation:

- Provide legal guidance and negotiation expertise for data center transactions in Asia Pacific.
- Draft and negotiate data center agreements with hyperscalers, large wholesale, and enterprise clients, including, without limitation, tenant order forms, change orders, non-disclosure agreements, letters of intent, subordination, non-disturbance, and attornment agreements, service orders, lease agreements, colocation agreements, development agreements, master service agreements, and related documents.
- Draft commencement notices, delay notices, and other correspondence relating to client agreements.
- Prepare summaries and abstracts of client agreements and provide guidance on the terms of client agreements.
- Review and revise after-action reports and similar documents for incidents and other circumstances related to client agreements.
- Provide legal guidance with respect to compliance initiatives for client agreements.
- Provide proactive and strategic-level advice that enables Vantage to achieve its business and strategic objectives while fully and appropriately managing and leveraging legal risk.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

- Work with cross-functional teams to gather input and consensus on technical, operational, and compliance aspects of data center transactions.
- Serve as a strategic partner by providing practical, business-focused, and sound legal advice to Asia Pacific Sales, Finance, Corporate Development, and Operations teams.

Contract Management and Compliance:

- Assist with the development and updates to client-related agreement templates and provide counseling on the use of such templates.
- Provide legal analysis of client agreements in support of certain business development and financing transactions, including document review and due diligence.
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to client agreements.

Client Relationship Management:

- Assist with all legal matters involving client relationships.
- Support the development, implementation, and management of methodology improvements in the client negotiation process and resolve legal issues that arise in existing client relationships.
- Support global legal strategy for client agreements, including contract management and governance.

Additional Duties:

- Handle additional duties as assigned by Management.
- Instruct and manage external counsel where required.

**Job Requirements**
- Admitted to practice in a common law jurisdiction.
- 4 - 6 years of relevant post qualification experience.
- Working knowledge of commercial real estate or technology, telco contracts.
- Demonstrated contract drafting experience.
- Experience within the digital infrastructure industry is strongly preferred.
- Strong communication skills, negotiation, and legal writing skills. Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills and stakeholder management.
- Knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, Malay or Japanese is an added advantage but not a pre-requisite.
- Ability to analyse complex business concepts and documents, and translate business intent into a succinct and reader-friendly legal document.
- This position requires an organised individual with the capacity to handle multiple projects simultaneously, work well under pressure, and to prioritize work effort, all with mínimal supervision.

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