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Main Purpose:
Providing and procuring legal services across a broad range of trading and commercial activities for Trafigura’s regional activities. Providing coverage for trading of physically and financially settled oil, products, coal, LNG and metals. Supporting all business areas in a rapidly growing regional hub with corporate and regulatory advice. Instructing, managing and supervising external legal resources. Developing and managing in-house legal resource as necessary and advisable.Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- International Trade and Dry Shipping Disputes Lawyer (wider international arbitration matters an asset)
- Commodities trading, claims management and commercial dispute experience
- Charter-party dispute experience a significant plus
- Around 2-4 years PQE (+/-1 yr)
- Practiced at a top law firm
- English law-qualified, but other jurisdictions considered
- English language essential
- In-house experience a plus, especially in commodities trading or shipping sectors, but not essential
- Must be willing to travel/do long hrs etc.
Key Responsibilities
- To be the first point of contact in the office for the provision and procurement of legal services
- Identify any need for in-house legal resources, procure and manage same
- Coordinate and implement standards and policies for the office with Group General Counsel of Trafigura Areas covered include:
1. Contentious: assisting during all stages of disputes from live advice to commodity traders and operators through to managing day-today claims issues, arbitration, litigation, mediation and enforcement - mainly trading, shipping and demurrage disputes but will include other disputes or investigations, including financial and insolvencies. • reporting to management and commercial desks upon the progress of disputes. Provision of legal assistance with emergency response issues
2. Non-contentious (trading/transactional/commercial/financial/projects): drafting and advising upon a variety of trading and commercial agreements, drafting and advising on corporate structures including project documentation, joint ventures, sale/purchase contracts, M&A, and associated documentation and MOUs, establishing, reviewing/updating standard template documents, advice on regulations relevant to the business
3. Professional Work as member of Trafigura Group Legal Network which provides and procures a full legal service to the Trafigura Group. Establish strong working relationships across business
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Reporting directly to the Co-Global General Counsels
Deadline: 10-05-2024
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