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Job Description
Category Legal Counsel Location Thanh Hóa Number of vacancies 01 Responsibilities
- Legal Advisory & Compliance:
- Provide comprehensive legal advice on Vietnamese laws, regulations, and legal requirements impacting the company's business and operations. This includes analyzing potential outcomes of legal requirements and recommending the best course of action.
- Advise on business, commercial, and procurement contracts, as well as other agreements in the normal course of business, ensuring and managing their compliance.
- Offer guidance on potential or actual contractual claims and liabilities, including assessing the feasibility of prosecuting or defending lawsuits and other proceedings.
- Advise on administrative inspections, sanctions, actions, and audits, recommending solutions and remedies for the company.
- Provide legal support for interactions with government and state bodies/agencies/authorities, within the scope of responsibilities.
- Identify and advise on legal risks and exposures, providing recommendations for mitigation and following up on their implementation. Main goal is to manage legal and compliance risks to optimize business operations.
- Carry out and support internal clarification / verification process to handle non-compliance matters.
- Dispute & Proceedings Management
- Manage disputes and claims as assigned, including assessing the company's legal rights and obligations in such matters.
- Manage legal proceedings arising from administrative inspections, sanctions, actions, and audits, as assigned.
- Represent, defend, and act on behalf of the company in relevant legal proceedings when required and assigned.
- Stakeholder Engagement & External Liaison
- Support leader regarding legal liaison with government bodies, state agencies, sponsors, and other essential stakeholders
- Fosters effective relationships with the organization's external counsel, clients, and customers on legal and compliance matters.
- Information & System Management
- Support to develop the legal management system, and relevant policies and procedures to improve the management system
- Continuously identify possible system and performance improvements to maximize the efficiency
- Prepare reports as business required
- Other Tasks assigned by Direct Supervisor/Manager
- Education Level: University graduated
- Qualifications:
- Major of Law or equivalent
- Postgraduate degree is an advantage
- Education in a foreign country with either common law or civil law system is an advantage
- Work Experience:
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience as counsel/lawyer in law firms, or in-house legal counsel, or equivalent, of which at least 3 years working as lawyer in international law firms or in-house counsel for multinational companies
- Experience in working with Government and other State bodies/agencies/ authorities, including Trade Union and Vietnamese court system
- Strong experience in corporate matters, company secretary, commercial contracts and procurement, compliance and dispute resolution
- Experience in oil and gas industry, especially downstream, or petrochemicals is advantage
- Experience in M&A, cross-border transactions, arbitration, project management, project financing, EPC contracts and other methods of dispute resolution is advantage
- English: Min TOEIC 700 or equivalent
- Job Knowledge:
- Good understanding of Vietnam legal systems, laws and regulations as well as the legal trends, especially in oil and gas, petrochemicals, energy and/or construction
- Familiarity with business operations in the oil & gas, petrochemical, or energy industries is preferred
- Awareness of legal trends affecting industrial projects and compliance requirements in a complex manufacturing environment
- High limit of medical and personal accident insurance for the employee and children;
- Accommodation & Transportation to work: to follow the Employer's policy;
- Free meal at site canteen (lunch)
- Opportunity to work in multinational working environment
- Opportunity to learn and growth
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Key Skills
legal management system
corporate matters
EPC contracts
cross-border transactions
legal proceedings
Vietnamese laws
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