Hybrid Senior Legal Counsel, Regulatory – APAC

at FARFETCH

• Job title: Senior Legal Counsel, Regulatory – APAC
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Porto, Portugal

About the role

• Senior Legal Counsel overseeing regulatory matters for luxury fashion platform Farfetch in APAC region. Leading strategic legal advice and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive, strategic and pragmatic advice on areas of managing legal risks in the external business or regulatory environment
• Advise on the local regulatory framework, including payments, digital regulation, consumer protection and competition law in APAC
• Tracking and assessing existing and new requirements for the Farfetch Group, as well as advising on their implementation
• Identifying, monitoring and evaluating relevant regulatory risks and enforcement trends, and taking proactive steps to mitigate these
• Developing strategies for, and engaging with, relevant regulators in APAC
• Oversee payments related matters in APAC, including reviewing the contracts and cooperation with payment processors and ensuring a compliant payment model for the regions responsible
• Work with the delivery team on tariffs matters and advising from legal perspective
• Negotiate, draft and review a broad range of commercial contracts, policies, guidance, corporate documentation and other legal documentation as required by the APAC business and entities, in collaboration with the broader Legal Team
• Building compliance processes, tools, policies and training to educate relevant parts of the Farfetch Group
• Liaise with external law firms, primarily in APAC, where external local support is needed
• Supervising and supporting legal counsel(s), in particular a local Legal Counsel based in and focused on mainland China, in their daily work, namely, BAU contracts review, legal advice giving, co-sec handling to work efficient and smart
• Supporting the Head of Legal, Regulatory and Group Legal VP on legal matters, and especially in ensuring compliance

Requirements

• Be a qualified lawyer with at least 6 years’ PQE, and superior analytical skills and creative problem solving skills. Prior in-house experience would be beneficial
• Have excellent training, preferably in a top tier law firm
• Have experience advising on digital regulation and/or payments
• Have proven ability to assess new pieces of international legislation / regulation and apply them on a risk-based basis to a business
• Have the curiosity and ability to absorb a lot of information quickly, apply it in assessments, and drive implementation
• Be able to understand nuances and complexities, and translate these into commercial, pragmatic, and concise advice in the context of a global business
• Have a strong work ethic and attention to detail, be highly proactive, organized and efficient, able to work on fast moving projects
• Be able to work autonomously but also well in teams, supervising legal counsel and supporting the VP of Legal and Head of Legal (Regulatory)
• Possess excellent communication, organization and drafting skills
• Be driven, forward-thinking, robust, innovative and agile, with commercial acumen
• Fluency in English is a must, ability to speak Mandarin Chinese is appreciated but not necessary.

Benefits

• Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
• Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
• Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
• Flexible benefits program