Legal Counsel, APAC

With 300 airports in around 50 countries and a global workforce of 60,000 employees Swissport is the world’s largest provider of ground handling, cargo, and other aviation related services.

We are now looking for a Legal Counsel, APAC who will be based in the company’s offices in Sydney, Australia. If you want to be part of an international, ambitious, and challenging environment at the biggest ground handling organization of the world, please have a look at the job profile below and apply when you are interested.

You as our Legal Counsel, APAC

The legal counsel, Asia will be a key contributor to the group’s global legal team, primarily serving as a business partner to the Asian region in legal, compliance, transactional, and corporate matters. Reporting to the Head of Legal – APAC, you are responsible for a wide variety of matters, including negotiating and drafting commercial agreements, corporate governance, overseeing litigation and claims ranging in complexity and common in the ground and cargo handling industry, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and providing legal advice and counsel to the regional executive team.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Work closely and collaboratively with the Asian executive and global legal team on strategic, governance, risk, legal, and compliance matters.
• Provide legal support to business and finance colleagues in contract negotiations, and with respect to corporate, commercial, insurance and compliance issues.
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of contracts, leases, licenses, confidentiality agreements, and other legal documents.
• Manage the corporate governance of all regional subsidiaries within legal counsel’s regional responsibility, drafting corporate resolutions and minutes for corporate subsidiaries and preparing in-house and submitting filings for commercial register offices.
• Monitor the Company’s business activities and assess legal and compliance risks that may impact the Company’s business and reputation.
• Manage and oversee litigation and/or administrative proceedings and manage outside counsel, with the aim to minimize the cost of such proceedings vis-à-vis settlement value and potential recovery.
• Assist the business in overseeing clients legal compliance with antitrust laws, antibribery and corruption laws, equal opportunity regulations, and similar regulatory requirements.
• Deliver training to the business.
• Support the HR team on matters related to employment law.
• Advise on complex legal matters and projects as may be assigned from time to time.
• Support in M&A projects.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Qualified and licensed attorney in Australia with +7 years of experience as attorney.
• Proficiency in English (ability to read, write and negotiate legal documents in this language is a must);
• In-house and law firm commercial and corporate legal experience preferably in the aviation and/or the freight transport industry.
• Strong business acumen with a demonstrated ability to partner with regional leadership teams.
• Significant experience with commercial and corporate transactions, contract negotiations, compliance, HR issues, overseeing litigation and disputes, and managing outside counsel. Experience in M&A is a plus.
• Experience working with a global company on cross-border matters.
• A proven team player with the ability to build consensus with diverse stakeholders and third parties and form strong, collaborative working relationships with internal clients.
• A problem solver, a creative thinker, and a facilitator, who is comfortable in front of customers, suppliers, peers, and senior management in both leading and supporting roles.
• A self-starter with the ability to manage a significant number of projects simultaneously and to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment while always maintaining the highest level of integrity.

Your next step

So, when you are looking for a challenging next step in your career as Legal counsel, APAC within an ambitious international aviation company, please apply. When you do, please send your resume in English via the Apply button.

Since we receive a high number of applications for our positions, it is unfortunately not possible to personally reach out to everyone. If you do not hear from us, it means we have moved forward with another candidate at this time.

We do invite you already to keep following Swissport because new opportunities may arise in our transformation process.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Swissport as an equal opportunity employer bases its hiring decisions on the business need and the best qualified candidates available and does not discriminate in its employment decisions based on any protected category.

Candidates who are offered employment may be subject to a criminal record and other background checks as permitted or required by company policy or applicable law.