# Counsel

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Shanghai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Visa's Asia Pacific Legal team is seeking a high-caliber business/commercial lawyer to join our team in Shanghai or Beijing. As a Counsel at Visa, you will provide practical counseling and advice to business teams regarding deal structures and approaches to addressing legal issues.

Responsibilities:

- Provide advice and services to ensure business goals are successfully met and that Visa's brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risk.

- Work closely with business teams to review and advise on commercial and contractual enhancements and/or new business initiatives.

- Draft, negotiate and drive to completion commercial, technology, and strategic partnership agreements.

- Collaborate effectively with the global legal office and with other members of the Greater China and regional Visa legal teams.

- Support regulatory and government engagements/consultations on payment regulations across mainland China.

- Advise on data privacy, cybersecurity and cross-border data transfer requirements in mainland China.

- Advise on labor laws and regulations in mainland China and support the local People team in resolving employment-related issues.

Qualifications:

- 6+ years of post-qualification legal experience, with commercial legal experience gained at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house with multinationals.

- Qualified to practice law in China.

- Strong academic credentials, with excellent analytical skills and good commercial sense.

- Excellent command of written and spoken English and Chinese required.

Nice to have:

- Experience in the payment, fintech or banking industry.

- Familiarity with legal practice in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region.

- International experience preferred, but a desire to expand knowledge of regional laws and legal systems can substitute.

- Good knowledge of data privacy and cybersecurity laws, AI regulation, antitrust law and anti-bribery laws preferred.

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## Skills

### Required
- commercial law
- contract negotiation
- regulatory compliance
- data privacy
- cybersecurity
- Chinese law
- Chinese

### Nice to have
- payment industry experience
- fintech experience
- banking industry experience
- AI regulation
- antitrust law
- anti-bribery laws

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