Senior Corporate Counsel

Job Description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to join their team in Singapore. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide legal support for core business functions across APAC. The Senior Corporate Counsel will have specific responsibility for a broad range of legal matters across multiple markets in the APAC region and will have leadership responsibilities within the APAC team. He/she will work closely with subject domains within the legal department such as public policy, intellectual property, data privacy and corporate governance. He/she will also serve as a functional legal expert who possesses subject matter expertise in two or more legal and regulatory areas relevant to the PlayStation business in APAC.

• Providing transactional support and general legal counselling to a broad range of SIE business functions in APAC
• Being a strategic thought partner to business, operational and functional support teams
• Advising and supporting business teams to manage risk and drive growth in the APAC region
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating business agreements and legal documents
• Managing and responding to inquiries or investigations by regulators or law enforcement agencies
• Providing legal advice across a variety of topics to global legal teams
• Advising on policy or regulatory matters
• Supervising, managing and leading members of the APAC legal team
• Managing outside counsel and a legal budget
• Leading or supporting global and regional projects from time to time

• Law graduate with a license to practice law in Singapore, England or another common law jurisdiction
• Minimum 12 years’ experience practicing law either in an in-house corporate legal department, top-tier law firm or a combination of both
• Experience leading and managing a team
• Familiarity with consumer, e-commerce, contract, product marketing and advertising laws in one or more APAC countries
• Experience providing legal support for to sales and marketing organisations in APAC, ideally in the consumer electronics sales (physical and e-sales) and hardware distribution sector
• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills in at least English
• Excellent communicator possessing excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage and support projects across multiple geographies and subject matters
• Excellent decision-making skills and ability to identify and prioritize the highest impact initiatives and driving them to pragmatic resolution