Assistant General Counsel

Responsibilities

• Negotiating, drafting and advising on SPGE's contracts and documents, with a focus on integration projects and corporate transactions, including service agreements, distribution agreements, customer contracts, vendor contracts, consultancy agreements and marketing agreements.
• Advising the business on important legal issues facing the SPGE business, including antitrust, employment, privacy, intellectual property, and media law.
• Advising the SPGE business on emerging legal and regulatory risks and engaging in discussions with regulators as needed.
• Providing legal advice and guidance to the business in relation to SPGE's strategic and channel partnerships and strategic initiatives.
• Training and assisting SPGE lawyers in the use of contract lifecycle management (CLM) AI tools and other available legal AI tools.
• Maintaining and organising the Legal knowledge management repository.
• Updating and preparing legal training materials for the Business teams on topics such as intellectual property rights, antitrust, media law, legal policy and procedures.
• Managing and coordinating legal projects as may be assigned by the Head of Legal.
• Required Skills & Experience:
• Education: Law degree. Qualified as a lawyer in a common law jurisdiction (eg. Singapore, England & Wales, New York).
• Years of experience: 12-15 years of PQE with substantial years of experience at a major law firm practicing corporate / commercial law.
• Meticulous and exacting with excellent legal drafting skills including the ability to understand, amend and draft complex legal documents.
• Strong interpersonal, organisational, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex issues in a simple and commercial manner.
• Strong project management skills, including ability to plan, prioritise, coordinate stakeholders, manage timelines, and deliver multiple initiatives in parallel.
• Possesses sound legal knowledge and understanding.
• Possesses strong technical skills and is highly proficient with Microsoft applications such as Word, PowerPoint and AI tools.
• Has worked regularly with regional business executives and senior management.
• Pro-active and has the ability to think logically outside the box in order to provide practical win-win solutions to the business which effectively protects SPGE's legal interests.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks, and work to tight deadlines.
• Team player who works well with others and acts in the best interests of the Company and the Legal team.
• Experience in antitrust, employment, privacy, intellectual property and/or media law and familiarity with CLM tools is a bonus.

Additional Information

The Role: Assistant General Counsel S&P Global Energy ("SPGE") is seeking a dynamic commercially-minded lawyer to join its Legal Strategy & Operations Team. This role is a global role and reports to the Head of Legal, Strategy & Operations.

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