Job Title: Legal Counsel (PRC SOE background & some capital markets expertise preferred)
Location: Hong Kong
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist direct report in providing legal advice and assistance to management and the Group's operational departments in relation to corporate finance, capital markets, principal investments and structured finance matters;
- Assist in corporate structuring works involving both Hong Kong SAR and Mainland PRC laws and regulations;
- Assist direct report in a wide variety of legal ground work, primarily commercial works, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating transactional documentation as well as various commercial proposals, agreements and legal due diligence;
- Assist direct report in drafting correspondences with regulatory bodies, auditors, counterparties and otherwise as needed;
- Liaise and co-ordinate with Mainland PRC parent legal function to ensure consistency/compliance with procedural/approval frameworks, and prepare reports, summary contract terms to parent legal function and/or other headquarter divisions for necessary approvals as requested regularly;
- Assist direct report in liaising and coordinating with external counsel in respect of transactional, contentious or more complex legal matters, in particular PRC related disputes;
- Such other works and responsibilities as are incidental (training, procedures/ precedent / checklist development etc.).
Job Specification:
Qualification
- Hong Kong solicitor and ideally PRC Qualified Legal Professional certificate.
Experience
- Minimum 7 years' relevant experience
- Experience in corporate, corporate finance, capital markets, banking and finance, and general practice commercial
- Experience in SOES is viewed favourably
Knowledge
- Working knowledge of company and securities laws and regulations Working knowledge of PRC laws and regulations is viewed favourably
- Strong command of both written and spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin
- Native level mandarin speaker
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