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Senior Legal Counsel

The purpose of this role is to help deliver, manage and support legal work within dentsu.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities

  • Provide strategic legal advice to dentsu China's brands, service lines and centralised functions.

  • Draft and negotiate commercial contracts with advertising clients and vendors.

  • Provide data privacy advice in relation to existing and new products and services and interactions with regulators.

  • Prepare and deliver training on data privacy and other Legal & Compliance topics to both non-legally qualified and legally-qualified colleagues.

  • Implement best practice in compliance, contracts management, intellectual property and data privacy.

  • Provide legal advice in other areas as required, including litigation and dispute resolution, companies law and corporate governance.

Person specification

  • PRC-qualified lawyer.

  • A minimum of 4 years’ post-qualification experience.

  • In-depth experience and knowledge of key legal principles relating to data privacy, contracts, intellectual property rights, company law and litigation.

  • Experience in drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial agreements.

  • Knowledge of corporate governance.

  • Experience of dealing directly with executive-level stakeholders and a demonstrated ability to build relationships.

  • Ability to manage competing priorities within a diverse workload.

  • Collaborative attitude essential to working in a small, well-coordinated team.

  • Advertising, media or technology industry experience would be a plus, but is not a pre-requisite.

  • Candidates with either law firm or in-house experience are equally welcome.

Location:

Shanghai - Haisu Plaza

Brand:

Dentsu

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Fixed Term Contract (固定期限)

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