Legal Counsel

2023-09-19 | po-021667

Company description

One of the biggest consulting firms in the world provides Assurance, Consulting, Tax, Strategy & Transactions and with presence in more than 150 countries.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, and negotiate with speed a broad spectrum of commercial agreements, including professional services agreements, subcontracting agreements, NDAs, releases, RFP conditions, government procurement agreements, dispatch worker agreements, secondment agreements, vendor agreements, agreements related to M&A activity, data privacy or security agreements, antisocial forces and other compliance-related agreements, and various addenda and riders to each.
Proactively document learnings to build legal advice repositories for future scalability to reduce attorney time spent on repetitive tasks.
Draft and revise templates, including proactive advice on template creation or consolidation to further enhance simplicity and scalability.
Advise stakeholders on labor/employment, compliance, and internal investigation issues.
F or Japan-qualified attorneys, provide subject matter expertise on Japanese law issues, including labor law, dispatch workers law, subcontractors law, companies law, civil code, and other relevant laws and case law.
Develop subject matter expertise and facilitate knowledge-sharing team-wide.
Advise management and cross-functional stakeholders of emerging legal trends and risks. Identify certain high risk topics, and help the client-serving teams develop risk mitigation strategies.
Coordinate with members of the compsny GCO community including global and APAC area level to ensure consistency and calibration across the company's network on key legal issues.
Manage and coordinate with outside counsel to procure external expertise with cost efficiency and speed.

Requirements

Be open to learning and embracing not only new areas of law but also to the company network policies, guidelines, positions and practices in Japan and at global level.
High ability to communicate verbally and in writing, effectively with various stakeholders both in Japanese and in English, in relation to both legal and commercial matters.
Qualified to practice law in Japan or another internationally recognized jurisdiction.
Minimum 7 years of experience in legal practice, preferably in a combination of in-house and private practice. We are open to consider applications directly from private practice if the candidate has quasi-in-house experience such as secondment to clients.
Experience drafting and negotiating a large volume of agreements without or with minimal supervision.
Experience providing legal advice related to regulatory issues.
Experience in large, international and complex organizations.
Subject matter expertise related to financial accounting rules, cross-border tax, and Japanese labor/employment issues, government procurement/relations, and/or intellectual property.