Our Client – Your New Employer

Our client is a global insurance & financial services group with a substantial market share in Hong Kong and throughout Asia.  The business is diversifying and is ready to appoint a Senior Legal Counsel to one of the group companies in the general insurance sector.

The Role

Reporting to the General Counsel, you will be involved in a broad range of legal and commercial matters, commercial contract, insurance related engagement matters, as well as some policy documentation review.   As an accomplished solicitor you will lend your expertise in reviewing internal documentation and systems management, internal templates and policies, as well as general commercial agreements.  You will closely with the General Counsel, and in collaboration with legal and business-side counterparts, including stakeholders at various levels across the Group.  You will have the opportunity to support the business on global mergers, acquisitions and integration projects, playing a key role in business growth.

Key to Your Success

This newly established senior legal role requires a “roll up the sleeves” approach and the ability to hit the ground running.  As the successful candidate you will be an experienced commercial lawyer with a minimum of 8 to 10 years of post qualification experience in an insurance-focused legal practice role.  Previous in house legal experience is preferred, though is not essential.  Your hands-on, collaborative nature and the ability to build strong internal and external relationships are key to your success in this position.  Native / fluent English and polished communication skills are required.

This leading corporation is looking for a construction lawyer to:

• Provide legal support to the business units on a range of construction, procurement and commercial contracts
• Advise business units on alliances and commercial arrangements and licensing requirements
• Manage the advice from external counsel on litigious matters
• Provide internal training on legal developments

To qualify, you should be Hong Kong qualified with between 5-10 years PQE.  Experience gained in the construction practice of a leading law firm and/or in-house environment is required.  Fluency in both English and Cantonese (with the ability to read and write Chinese) is mandatory. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with people at all levels is required.

Are you a qualified accountant looking to join a world beating, prestigious global law firm?  How about working with some of the sharpest legal minds who act for some of the largest companies in the world advising on cutting edge international law, in a work environment that offers you the opportunity to work with first-in-class systems, and with an excellent upward career path and training programme? If so,  this role might just be for you.

Our client, a top tier international law firm with offices across the Asia region is currently hiring a well-rounded Accountant for their Hong Kong office to provide general accounting support for their Asia operations, and to ensure a 'tight' financial system, and providing support on pricing negotiations and revenue forecasting. 

Job duties: 

• Generate and review team and individual fee earner WIP and collections reports, work closely with the working capital team to ensure as smooth a process for revenue collection
• Monthly review of unbilled disbursements
• Managing debt collection actions with support from centralised debt collection team, and following up with both clients and Partners
• Liaise with partners daily on practice revenue, profitability and anticipated unrecoverable revenue, coordinate write-off requests 
• Identify and investigate abnormal transactions and significant money moves
• Prepare AR and WIP reports in accordance with IFRS15 Revenue Recognition, as well as aged debt reports
• Conduct monthly and quarterly financial analyses
• Prepare cash flow forecast reports
• Support statutory and internal audits on revenue related accounts
• Set up weekly billing and collection targets
• Assist and discuss with Partners on workflow design and pricing negotiations 
• Assisting in ad-hoc financial projects, proactive follow-up of all tasks 

Requirement:

• Qualified CPA with at least 5 years' working experience with Law Firms/ professional firms
• Experience / knowledge of billing, credit control, debt collection, and pricing analyses will be beneficial
• Excellent communication ability in both Chinese and English
• Good team player, the ability to be flexible and working calmly in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
• Candidates with major law firm exposure will be considered first

Our client, a leading conglomerate in the region, is looking for a legal counsel to join their mid sized legal team.  Based in Hong Kong, you will advise internal business units on:

• General corporate commercial matters including on tender and technology contracts
• Construction projects and contentious litigation
• Providing internal training 

To qualify, you should be mid level qualified in Hong Kong with construction (both contentious and non-contentious) matters as well as fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. Excellent inter-personal and communication skills are required.

A Magic Circle law firm is seeking a Regional Practice Manager (Director Level) for their Litigation and Disputes practice. Preferably this role would be based in Singapore but there is an option to be based in Hong Kong too.

Working alongside the Regional Practice Area leader (RPAL), the scope of work include:

• Developing and implementing regional practice strategy, business and succession plans
• Manage the practice’s budget, financial performance and assess practice efficiency
• Assisting Partners with associate recruitment needs and manage the recruitment process for associates
• Liaise with heads of Department and GM’s to ensure ongoing appropriate business professional support e.g. business development, communications, finance, HR and other operational support
• Manager regional practice advisors

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years' business management experience preferably from an international law firm or professional services environment
• International law firm background and a strong understanding of the law firm business model is highly desired
• Business or legal qualifications with exceptional administrative skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to develop relationships with both lawyers and business service teams.

An international law firm is seeking a Marketing Manager to be based in their Singapore office or a Senior Marketing & Business Development Executive based in their Hong Kong office on an 8 months' contract for maternity leave cover.

The scope of work will include implementing innovative business development and marketing strategies for the region with particular focus on South East Asia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The successful candidate will have proven experience in business development, pitching, client engagement, marketing strategy and event planning. It's a fantastic opportunity to work in a supportive and collaborative team in a push to drive growth in the region and raise the firm's profile. 

Requirements:

• 3-5 years' relevant experience in a reputable law firm
• Able to work independently and lead on projects
• Highly motivated and positive team player
• Can work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent English (spoken and written) essential
• Solid marketing and business development experience from a law firm background highly desired 

Company Secretary 

Our client is a well-established financial institution which offers a wide range of innovative online financial services. They are hiring a Company Secretary to handle a full spectrum of company secretarial services and corporate governance matters for the group and its subsidiaries.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for organizing and facilitating board meetings, committee meetings and shareholder’s meeting
• Provide the updated company secretarial documentation relating to Company Ordinance and Hong Kong Listing rules
• Ensure compliance with relevant corporate governance and statutory requirements
• Maintain and update statutory books/records  
• Perform ad hoc projects as required

To qualify, individuals must possess:

• Degree holder with at least 5 years company secretarial experience in banking or financial industry  
• Member of HKICS or ICSA  
• Strong knowledge in HKMA regulatory and Banking Ordinance   
• Able to work independently and self-motivated
• Detail-minded with strong command in written and spoken English and Chinese
• Familiar with CSA software and Microsoft
• Immediate available will be highly preferred  

Job Description

My client is a globally well renowned law firm involved in cutting edge law and with a fantastic multi-national client-base.  They are currently looking for an IT Team Leader to join their Hong Kong office. Reporting to the regional head of IT, the role will be to look after the entire IT Support department and run a team of 3 people. You will be dealing with everyone across the firm, support them, desktop support, presentations and incident investigations etc

Job Duties

• Manage all aspects of IT support in Hong Kong
• Manage a team of 3 people
• Support continuous improvements in service
• Relationship Management with end-users
• Provide escalation point for all issues
• Work with the APAC Head of IT in hiring, training, counselling, and disciplining departmental employees. Generate performance evaluations for departmental employees.
• Manage, train, and coach the HK IT team; lead them in their professional and career development
• 1st and 2nd line support for applications, desktops, laptops, phones and mobiles etc
• Investigate high impact incidents/problems

Requirements

• IT Support experience in Law Firm (6+ years is ideal)
• Knowledge of Microsoft applications support
• Excellent people management and organisational skills, experience of supervising and coaching others
• English (spoken and written) is essential, Cantonese and/or Mandarin spoken skills are a distinct advantage
• Senior Stakeholder management experience
• ITIL Experience

A Magic Circle law firm is looking for a mid-level associate to join their Tier 1 banking team. The ideal candidate will have solid general banking experience. Those with exposure to leveraged finance, insolvency and restructuring matters would be at an advantage. This is a great opportunity to work under highly regarded partners on innovative and complex transactions across the whole of Asia.

Requirements:

• 3-6 PQE Hong Kong qualified
• Lawyers from US, UK, Australia and New Zealand are strongly encouraged to apply
• General banking experience from a top tier banking practice
• Chinese language skills would be desirable but not essential
• Highly motivated team player with the aptitude to work independently

This leading property developer is hiring an experienced conveyancing lawyer to join their legal team. In particular, they are looking for a candidate who has strong familiarity with conveyancing transactions and procedures in Hong Kong.

Responsibilities:
• Handling and drafting documents independently, including sale and purchase agreements, leases, licences, mortgages, assignments and guarantees.

To qualify:
• Hong Kong qualified lawyer with at least 3 years' PQE in general commercial land conveyancing gained with sizable law firms and/or in-house
• A strong command of written and spoken English and Cantonese is required. Mandarin languages are advantageous
• Self starters, able to operate independently, commercially astute, strong attention to detail

On offer:
• To be a member of a well-known property developer in Hong Kong
• Lunch provided by the company