Legal Counsel

Location: Singapore, Singapore In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible. Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas. **Responsibilities**: - Secure the legal aspects of commercial engineering services implemented for supporting export and domestic initiatives undertaken by the Thales Operational Units in the relevant Region’s countries. With due reference to best practices and ethics rules, he/she will participate in the identification, selection and qualification of the business and industrial partners, and be responsible for analyzing, implementing and updating “due diligence” files in close coordination with the Country Directors and all relevant local functions. He/She will be responsible for preparing and managing the contracts to be executed with said business partners. - Incumbent will be as close as possible to operational functions and help in elaborating relevant contractual solutions and identifying legal stakes so that risks are detected, measured and mitigated. In compliance with Group policy, the incumbent will interface with external counsels for analysis and management of specific legal issues in the framework of complex contractual and/or legal arrangements or litigation procedures in the Region - Incumbent will be responsible for addressing corporate law, governance and compliance aspects for local Thales companies, JVs and branches. **Requirements**: - Minimum of 3 years professional experience as in-house lawyer providing support to business in an international environment. He/She shall have a good practice of international environment and compliance matters. - Good command of French and English. - Autonomous, rigorous, self-confident, "teamwork capable", well organized, problem solver oriented and have an interest for the Region’s cultures, traditions and way of life. - Proficient with the use of software tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).