Senior Legal Counsel, Leasing, APAC

Legal Department

The Legal team is responsible for managing the company's legal affairs from compliance through litigation, collaborating with departments such as Sales, Operations, Human Resources, and Innovation along the way. The Legal team also works closely with external law firms to develop a comprehensive legal strategy and manages these partners to address issues efficiently and effectively. Unlike many other companies where legal roles are purely advisory, Vantage distinguishes itself by granting our legal staff the authority to directly influence business decisions. This empowers our internal team to align legal strategies with long-term operational goals, risk management, and cost efficiency to deliver outcomes that support corporate objectives. This approach allows each team member to make significant, impactful decisions, driving substantial results for the company.

Position Overview

You will be responsible for legal support of client agreements in APAC, including data center leases, service agreements, tenant order forms, and related documents. In addition to providing excellent legal expertise and support, you will bring a proactive, business, and solution-oriented mindset to legal matters, an enterprise lens, and a proven ability to work collaboratively across the organization. You will ideally have data center or related technology expertise, in-house or law firm experience, strong business acumen, enterprise leadership, passion for growing a business, and experience in continuous improvement and driving enhancements that benefit the Company.

Essential Job Functions

Legal Guidance and Negotiation:

• Provide legal guidance and negotiation expertise for data center transactions in APAC.
• Draft and negotiate data center agreements with hyperscalers, large wholesale, and enterprise clients, including, without limitation, tenant order forms, change orders, non-disclosure agreements, letters of intent, subordination, non-disturbance, and attornment agreements, service orders, lease agreements, colocation agreements, development agreements, master service agreements, and related documents.
• Manage client-related issues arising post-contract, such as drafting contract amendments and any issues escalated to legal.
• Draft commencement notices, delay notices, and other correspondence relating to client agreements.
• Prepare summaries and abstracts of client agreements and provide guidance on the terms of client agreements.
• Review and revise after-action reports and similar documents for incidents and other circumstances related to client agreements.
• Provide legal guidance with respect to compliance initiatives for client agreements.
• Provide proactive and strategic-level advice that enables Vantage to achieve its business and strategic objectives while fully and appropriately managing and leveraging legal risk.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work with cross-functional teams to gather input and consensus on technical, operational, and compliance aspects of data center transactions.
• Serve as a strategic partner by providing practical, business-focused, and sound legal advice to APAC Sales, Finance, Corporate Development, and Operations teams.

Contract Management and Compliance:

• Assist with the development and updates to client-related agreement templates and provide counseling on the use of such templates.
• Provide legal analysis of client agreements in support of certain business development and financing transactions, including document review and due diligence.
• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to client agreements.

Client Relationship Management:

• Assist with all legal matters involving client relationships.
• Support the development, implementation, and management of methodology improvements in the client negotiation process and resolve legal issues that arise in existing client relationships.
• Support global legal strategy for client agreements, including contract management and governance.

Job Requirements

• Admitted to practice in a common law jurisdiction.
• 7+ years of relevant legal experience.
• Experience within the data center industry strongly preferred.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Well-rounded lawyer who is also a practical and business-minded executive.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and legal writing skills. Good interpersonal and management skills.
• Excellent organization and problem-solving skills that enable the candidate to juggle multiple responsibilities at once and consistently meet tight deadlines, with minimal supervision.
• Impeccable integrity, credibility, character, and ethics.