Legal Counsel/Senior Legal Counsel

The Clermont Group is an international business group with its headquarters in Singapore. Founded in 2006 by New Zealand-born entrepreneur Richard Chandler, Clermont operates across four sectors – healthcare, financial services, aerospace, and wealth management. These businesses employ over 10,000 people globally.

Rooted in excellence, innovation, and integrity, we bring together the art and science of building champion businesses, using our unique approach to create iconic companies that lead industry and shape culture.

Our operating companies include:

• Hoan My: The largest healthcare group in Vietnam with a mission to provide affordable, high-quality healthcare to the people of Vietnam
• SBFC: Our finance business in India, provides loans to small business owners and consumers through a network of more than 250 branches
• magniX: Our U.S.-based aerospace business, produces the industry’s leading fully-integrated electric powertrains for helicopters and airplanes

For more information, please visit our website at www.clermont.com.

Key Responsibilities

This position is recognised as a trusted advisor with a good understanding of the culture and management dynamics within the Group. This position requires:

• A commercial and business oriented mind-set, on top of superior judgement and communication skills
• The ability to recognise, anticipate and mitigate potential legal problems, develop solutions and counsel senior management and business leaders towards those solutions
• A proactive and self-driven approach, with the ability to prioritise and follow through on various deliverables and projects simultaneouslyThis lawyer is a model team player, who thrives in a team-oriented context and excels in a complex, challenging and demanding environment. This lawyer is also expected to exercise behaviours that would advance a culture of team-ship, shared accountability and operational excellence.In addition to taking on and being responsible for general corporate work, this lawyer will also be exposed to (and is, in certain cases, expected to lead, drive and manage) M&A transactions and litigation matters as may be required from time to time. Clermont’s legal team is a practising law department which means that its lawyers are called to perform activities and execute transactions where most other corporations rely on external counsel for support and advice. On occasion where external counsel is engaged for support and advice, this lawyer is expected to manage and supervise such external counsel effectively and efficiently.Key responsibilities:
• Supporting the General Counsel and the legal team on a broad range of legal matters to accomplish corporate goals, strategies and priorities. Developing and leading regulatory compliance and corporate governance programs as required
• Working with the legal team in building out and implementing appropriate risk management systems
• Supporting business development and inorganic growth activity, including complex and high value transactions
• Proactively contributing to the delivery of Clermont’s fast paced business by partnering with business colleagues through active engagement in legal matters including providing advice (and mitigation solutions) on (i) legal issues and strategy; (ii) business development and M&A transactions; (iii) litigation and arbitration matters; and (iv) commercial contracts
• Assisting in the drafting of policies, guidelines, legal templates and other necessary documents to promote best practices
• Assessing existing and proposed commercial relationships in order to ensure that their implications are fully understood and drafting, negotiating and finalising definitive agreements to ensure these relationships are properly defined and recorded
• Working with and managing local and international external legal counsel as needed
• Assisting in and taking responsibility for other duties and special projects as requested by the General Counsel

Requirements

The successful candidate will ideally possess the following traits:

• Must have a law degree with a strong academic and private practice background with at least 10 years’ PQE handling general corporate legal work such as M&A, Joint Ventures, financing, labour and employment issues, intellectual property issues, commercial sale contracts and litigation. Familiarity with Singapore law is preferred but not essential
• Prior in-house experience would be advantageous, though not essential
• Qualification and admission to the Singapore Bar is preferred
• Experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting M&A, venture capital and private equity investments
• A fair level of corporate governance experience and knowledge
• The humility to learn and collaborate with team members and be a team player at every level of the organisation
• Strong interpersonal skills oriented to effective verbal and written communication, problem solving, decision-making and assertiveness
• Intangible skills that include sound judgement, intuition, integrity and an ability to adapt to/embrace challenging and ambiguous situations
• Proven ability to serve as a trusted advisor with a history of building trust with others
• Maturity, self-motivation and the ability to work independently and at times with very little supervision, and to demonstrate sound judgment under pressure
• Commercial, driven, and willing to speak up and contribute actively in a dynamic business environment