Lead Legal Counsel

Overview

JOB DESCRIPTION:

 APTEAN JOB TITLE: Lead Legal Counsel, APAC

 

GENERAL JOB SUMMARY

  

As Senior Legal Counsel (APAC) provides expert legal advice and support to an organization, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, managing legal risks, drafting and reviewing contracts, and representing the company in legal matters within Asia Pacific jurisdiction.

 

SCOPE

 

Knowledge: A  lead Legal Counsel must have in-depth knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and legal principles, along with the ability to interpret and apply them to the organization’s operations.

 

Supervision: Typically, a Legal Counsel works under the direction of senior leadership or the General Counsel but may also supervise junior legal staff, ensuring the team's work aligns with legal standards and company policies.

 

Complexity: The role involves handling complex legal matters, including contract negotiation, risk management, compliance issues, and potentially representing the organization in litigation. It requires critical thinking and the ability to navigate intricate legal challenges.

 

  

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Roles and Job Requirements

 

• An India qualified lawyer with at least minimum +10 years PQE solid working experience in IT company in-house environment.
• Strong knowledge and solid experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiation of technology contracts including but not limited to SaaS agreement, partner (channel/ reseller, VAR) agreement, vendor agreements and services agreement (SOW, M&S Agreement, SLA) in multiple APAC jurisdictions (India, Australia and Singapore).   

• Ensure company’s privacy, data protection, AI governance, employment and corporate affairs are legally compliant.
• Provide legal advice and support Human Resources for implementing internal HR policies and governances. 
• Support corporate governance and entity management across multiple APAC jurisdictions, and coordinating with external counsels and consultants, ensuring timely adherence to local statutory obligations.

• Nice to have proven working knowledge or familiarity of China legal compliance environment. (Not a Must).

 

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

 

Education (Indicate the minimum level of education necessary for this position. Check all that apply and indicate specific degree as applicable to the side (e.g., Bachelor’s in Computer Science)

Required     Preferred          Degree/Certification

 ☒              ☐                   Bachelor’s degree

 ☐              ☒                   Master’s degree

 ☐              ☐                   Ph.D.

 ☐              ☐                   J.D. (law)

 ☐              ☐                   Certification:

 ☐              ☐                   Registration:

 ☐              ☐                   Licensure:

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 Work Experience

 

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

 

Shift details:

 

Required to work in shift: No

 

Attendance Bangalore office is mandated

 

About ApteanAt Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations. 

 

 “At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.