Legal Counsel

Main purpose

• To support Trafigura’s developing business across the APAC region, by providing legal advice in connection with transactional and regulatory matters across the entire portfolio of Trafigura’s commercial trading activities. Such activities include the trading of physically and financially settled oil, oil products, bulk commodities (including coal and iron ore), non-ferrous concentrates and refined metals, power and carbon.

• To primarily provide legal support in connection with banking finance and structured trade finance.

• To work to meet the legal demands of Trafigura’s business and to provide advice in a clear, succinct and practical manner often under tight time constraints and commercial imperatives.

Key responsibilities

To be the first point of contact in the region for the provision of legal services, including: 

• To be the first point of contact in the region for the provision of legal services, including: 

       -    Transactional Advice: Advising on structured trade finance-related documentation including prepayments, banking facilities, sale and purchase contracts and other related documentation.

       -    Regulatory Advice: Relating to applicable regulations in respect of new and existing business across the APAC region, including in relation to financial regulation.

• To identify key legal risks and to report these to management and the commercial stakeholders in a timely and proactive manner and to develop effective and practical strategies to mitigate the same. 

• To work as part of the wider Global Legal Team in providing excellent legal service to the business in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.

• To procure and manage, where necessary, external legal advice and support.

• To work as an effective member of the Global Legal Team and to establish strong working relationships across the business.

• Planning, developing and providing training to staff on legal issues and on an ad-hoc basis and as part of established training programs in relation to legal and compliance policies.

Required qualifications

• Legal professional qualification with at least  7 years post qualification experience.

• Qualified in either the UK, Singapore, Australia or New Zealand with credible private practice experience in such jurisdiction.

• Preference for in-house experience in a trading or equivalent commercial environment, with significant international and cross border experience in finance and/or trade finance and/or banking finance.

• Broad range of legal skills.  

• Good IT and organisational skills.

• Excellent command of the English language.