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