Job Description

Some careers shine brighter than others If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. Global Legal plays an important role in protecting the Group’s reputation by helping to future-proof the organisation through robust legal risk and issue advisory. Responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice to senior management and all global businesses and functions, the team offers a diverse range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all countries and territories in which our businesses operate. We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Legal Counsel, Competition Law. Principal Responsibilities

• The jobholder’s role is to perform the following under the guidance of the Head of Competition Law, Asia Pac
• Exposure to very diverse set of matters given diversity of HSBC’s business, its geographic spread and the constant changes internally and externally
• Provide robust, balanced and forward-looking expert legal advice and proactive guidance on competition law issues to the Global Business Lines and Global Functions in HK and AsiaPac region
• Ensure that competition risks and issues are identified – and appropriate action taken - as early as possible
• Assist with the management of competition regulatory or internal investigations wherever in AsiaPac they arise
• Proactively mitigate risks and future-proof the business by helping with the implementation, monitoring and refinement of an effective and forward-looking programme of competition risk assessment, management and mitigation activities and actively providing risk stewardship in AsiaPac region and globally
• Identify and capture emerging regulatory trends and lessons learned in relation to competition law and ensure that actionable insights are shared with the AsiaPac region and the Group and opportunities are taken to equip the Group with forward-looking guidance
• Actively participate in a Group-wide competition law practice group
• Work as an integrated member of the wider HSBC legal team
• Maintain and develop positive and professional working relationships with all legal team members and members of business departments with whom the lawyer has contact
• Able to navigate large and complex organisations and stakeholder groups
• Provide legal services in a cost-effective manner
• A rare opportunity to be a part of a well-established in-house specialist competition law team at a top-tier organization with sophisticated understanding of competition law

Requirements
Requirements

• Qualified lawyer of 4 to 6 years of post-qualification experience
• Strong technical legal skills and in depth knowledge of competition law in a well-established regime
• Significant experience of a broad spectrum of competition law concepts, with an emphasis on behavioural issues, horizontal and vertical agreements and abuse of dominance, and investigation management as opposed to mergers
• Solid judgment and ability to evaluate risk in a commercially focused way
• Demonstrable ability to analyse the competition law implications of business proposals with relatively little supervision, including problem solving ability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to translate complex legal issues into easy to understand briefings
• Demonstrably strong interpersonal skills including in particular team working and influencing skills
• In house experience will be an advantage

To be considered for this role, the relevant rights to work in Singapore is required. You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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