Position: Legal Counsel

Pomelo is the leading online fashion company in Emerging Asia. Backed by fashion and technology investors from across the world, Pomelo brings its unique fast fashion style to Emerging Asia through a technology-driven, vertically-integrated design and production model. Our growth strategy is to merge our online focus of mobile and social with the latest trends and data.

Responsibilities

Give accurate and timely counsel to the management team in a variety of legal topics (M&A, labor law, partnerships, international ventures, corporate finance etc.)

Communicate and negotiate with external parties (regulators, external counsel, public authority etc.), creating relations of trust

Oversee and defend the Companys intellectual property rights

Collaborate with management to devise efficient defensive business strategies

Specify internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance

Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations

Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on possible legal issues

Draft and solidify agreements, contracts, and other legal documents to ensure the companys full legal rights

Provide clarification on legal language or specifications to everyone in the organization

Conduct your work with integrity and responsibility

Maintain current knowledge of alterations in legislation

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Law required, MBA, LLM or JD from a foreign university is a plus

Minimum 5 years of experience at a leading international law firm

Experiences in legal advice providing, agreements drafting/reviewing/negotiating (i.e. commercial, M&A, SPA, SHA, loan agreement etc.), legal deal structuring, business presence set up in Asian Region.

Able to act quickly, accurately, credibly and decisively under often stressful and critical circumstances as the guardian of the Company's' interests.

Knowledge of tax is a plus

Highly organized with excellent presentation skills

Self-motivated, rigorous and excellence-oriented