Our client is an established privately held investment and development group with a significant portfolio of high-quality real estate and hospitality assets across Singapore and key international markets.

As the business continues to manage and develop a diverse portfolio of projects, they are looking to appoint a Senior Legal Counsel to join their Singapore-based legal team.

This is a broad commercial role suited to a lawyer with strong experience across real estate development, hospitality, construction and/or major projects. The successful candidate will work closely with senior business stakeholders and external advisers on both ongoing developments and operational matters across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Provide legal support across the full lifecycle of real estate development and investment projects, from project structuring and development through construction, completion and operations.
Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of development, construction and project-related agreements, including main construction contracts, consultancy agreements, project management agreements and other commercial arrangements.
Advise on EPC, design-and-build and construction contracts, including risk allocation, variations, claims and contractual issues arising during project execution.
Support the business on hospitality-related matters, including hotel management agreements, operator arrangements, technical services agreements and other agreements relating to hospitality assets.
Advise on property-related commercial agreements, including acquisition, disposal, leasing, asset management and development arrangements.
Work alongside the investment and business teams on real estate transactions, joint ventures and strategic projects where required.
Provide pragmatic legal advice on commercial, contractual and operational matters affecting the group's portfolio.
Manage external legal counsel and coordinate advice across different jurisdictions.
Support dispute prevention and resolution in relation to construction, development and commercial contractual matters.
Assist with broader corporate and transactional work where required.
Monitor relevant regulatory and legal developments affecting the real estate, construction and hospitality sectors.

Requirements

Qualified lawyer with approximately 6–8 years post-qualification experience gained with a leading law firm and/or established in-house legal team.
Strong experience in one or more of the following areas: Real estate development, Construction/engineering, EPC and major projects, Hospitality and hotel development and Real estate transactions
Experience advising developers, property owners, hospitality groups, contractors or infrastructure/project businesses would be particularly relevant.
Strong drafting and negotiation capabilities, particularly across complex commercial and project contracts.
Comfortable managing matters independently and working directly with senior commercial and operational stakeholders.
Commercially minded with the ability to identify key legal risks without losing sight of the underlying business objectives.
Singapore qualification would be advantageous, although lawyers qualified in other leading common-law jurisdictions with highly relevant experience will also be considered.

Senior Legal Counsel (min 6 PQE) , Real Estate & Construction