Trafigura
Senior Legal Counsel
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Job Description
- Req#: R-011964
- Litigation lawyer (experience in private and regulatory litigation)
- Commodities trading dispute experience
- Experience in conducting internal investigations
- Around 15+ years PQE
- Practiced at a top law firm
- English and US law-qualified
- English language essential
- In-house corporate experience a plus, especially in energy sector, but not essential
- Must be willing to travel/do long hrs etc.
- To be the first point of contact in the office for the provision and procurement of legal services
- Identify any need for in-house legal resources, procure and manage the same
- Coordinate and implement standards and policies for the office with Group General Counsel of Trafigura Areas covered include:
- assisting during all stages of disputes from live advice to commodity traders and operators through to managing day-today claims issues, arbitration, litigation, mediation and enforcement - mainly trading, shipping and demurrage disputes but will include other disputes or investigations, including financial and insolvencies.
- reporting to management and commercial desks upon the progress of disputes.
- Provision of legal assistance with emergency response issues
- drafting and advising upon a variety of trading and commercial agreements, drafting and advising on corporate structures including project documentation, joint ventures, sale/purchase contracts, M&A, and associated documentation and MOUs, establishing, reviewing/updating standard template documents, advice on regulations relevant to the business
- Work as member of Trafigura Group Legal Network which provides and procures a full legal service to the Trafigura Group. Establish strong working relationships across business
- Positive, self-motivated, committed, pro-active and efficient.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a wider team.
- Strong communication skills to communicate complex legal issues and advice in a digestible manner.
- Ability to relate to commercial staff and management under pressure and with commercial perspective.
- Ability to develop strong working relationships with people at all levels across the business.
- High integrity essential.
Main Purpose:
Providing and procuring legal services across the entire portfolio of Trafigura’s commercial activities with particular focus upon litigations, investigations and corporate work but also the trading of physically and financially settled oil, products, bulk, LNG and metals and the shipment, storage and transportation of the same supporting connected trade and structured finance will also be required.
Instructing, managing and supervising external legal resources.Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
Contentious:
Non-contentious (trading/transactional/commercial/financial/projects):
Professional
Competencies
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Key Relationships
- Co-Group General Counsels
- Legal team
About the company
Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.
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