Senior Legal, Ethics & Compliance Counsel - Asia

Egis is a global organisation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. With our Head Office based in Paris, we offer global career opportunities, as well as offer rewarding careers for our people locally. Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we create innovative solutions with our clients worldwide.

Egis is an organisation with a capacity to make meaningful industry and community change in the space of place making, sustainability and creating connected cities. Different to other engineering firms, Egis offers true end to end capability across the entire design to operation lifecycle, offering advisory, architecture, engineering, design, asset management and operations services.

We are committed to creating great teams doing innovative work and would love you to join us to Impact the Future.

• Responsible for directly providing or ensuring his/her team provide to all businesses and functions of Asia solutions-oriented advice, recommendations, support and trainings on all aspects of legal issues and regulatory risks and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements:
• Provide support and guidance for agreements of all kinds (engineering, consulting and professional services agreements, procurement contracts, cooperation, consortium, joint venture agreements etc.) on all legal aspects (commercial law, insurance, IP, etc.) as the case may be with the support of central experts within the LEC Department,
• Manage and supervise disputes, legal actions and litigation and regulatory risks, with the support where necessary of external counsels, contribute to the settlement of claims and manage insured losses in collaboration with the Insurance and Litigation Group central legal experts,
• Manage Ethics & Compliance in Asia in close coordination with the Regional GC of APAC Region and the central Ethics & Compliance Department and as such participate directly in and oversee the roll out of the Ethics & Compliance program of codes, procedures and tools, monitoring and improvement of the Ethics approach, including organizing trainings, advising local teams on all compliance-related issues, and helping to enrich the risk culture within the region by strengthening compliance,
• Oversee the corporate entity housekeeping of the Egis entities in Asia, (change of D&O, approval of annual financial statements etc), including requests and maintenance of the required operational licenses, in close coordination with the Regional GC of APAC and the Legal central/corporate teams,
• Participate in external growth transactions (acquisitions and Integration of new companies and divestitures) in Asia, under the leadership of the central Legal M&A team,
• Lead and coordinate insurance (PI, PL & GL) for Asia in close relationship with the Insurance Department of the Group
• Actively play a role in leading the local team, reporting to his/her hierarchical and dotted lines and contribute to the design, implementation and follow up of Group LE&C Department processes, developing and sharing best practices and tools and procedures in Asia in coordination with the other members of the Regional team.

• Demonstratable legal experience practicing law in a law firm, or as in-house counsel, with excellent command of spoken and written English, specializing and with a focus in ethics and compliance with respect to day-to-day advice
• Experienced in an engineering or construction sector required in an international environment prefered
• Demonstrable commercial law, corporate law, and regulatory or administrative law experience in Asia
• Demonstrable leadership and people management experience and strong ability to work as a team player who can effectively collaborate with colleagues from the LE&C Department and business stakeholders, in particular coordinating with cross-functional and cross-country teams in complex transactions
• Autonomous, pragmatic and “Hands-on” business partner attitude with a solution-oriented mindset, the highest integrity and professionalism, and capacity to challenge the status quo and strive for excellence and quality across various business functions in a fast-paced environment
• Stakeholders’ management and superior negotiating skills and ability to work in complex international environment, substantial experience working in different cultures and an open mind which champions diversity and inclusion.