# Senior Legal Counsel

**Company**: BBC Studios
**Location**: Singapore, SGP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Media

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Singapore-Senior-Legal-Counsel-79909/1373521257/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

The Senior Legal Counsel operates as the lead business & legal affairs partner for BBC Studios' businesses across Asia, providing strategic, commercially focused legal advice to support the delivery of business objectives while ensuring effective risk management.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the drafting, negotiation, and management of commercial agreements and legal documentation

- Provide strategic legal and business affairs leadership to the Asia business

- Positively represent BBC Studios and foster collaborative relationships at senior level

- Mitigate legal, contractual, and business risk

- Ensure compliance with governance, standards, and frameworks

- Line-manage members of the business and legal affairs team

- Collaborate effectively with other members of the team

- Lead or assist on complex legal, commercial, and cross-functional projects

Requirements:

- Admitted to practise as a lawyer in a common law jurisdiction (Singapore or the UK preferred; US or Australia jurisdictions will also be considered)

- 8-10 years Post-Qualification Experience

- Fluency in English

- Extensive negotiating, rights management, contracting, and copyright experience

- Ability to manage diverse workstreams and apply complex analytical and problem-solving skills under pressure

- Experience of working in an in-house legal team, ideally in a media business

- Knowledge/understanding of the legal and regulatory framework in the region

Desirable:

- Comprehensive knowledge of, and experience in the broadcast and streaming sector

## Skills

### Required
- legal
- commercial
- contracting
- copyright
- analytical
- problem-solving
- team management

### Nice to have
- broadcast
- streaming
- media business

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