# Director, Japan Legal

**Company**: BlackRock
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Japan Legal team at BlackRock is seeking a Director to provide legal advice across asset management activities and corporate functions in Japan. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders and functional partners, navigating a complex regulatory environment while supporting new product development, client solutions, fund structuring initiatives, and strategic business priorities.

Responsibilities:

- Advise on Japanese laws and regulations, including the Japan Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations

- Draft, review, and negotiate investment management agreements with Japanese clients and offshore counterparties

- Advise on filings for foreign investment trusts and corporations, domestic securities placements, and cross-border regulatory matters

- Provide legal support across a broad range of business and corporate matters, including risk management solutions businesses, intellectual property, and vendor contracts

- Provide corporate secretariat support for BlackRock Japan and its Japan-based affiliates

- Advise on real estate transactions and infrastructure investments

Requirements:

- Qualified lawyer in Japan (bengoshi) with approximately six or more years of relevant experience

- Experience within the asset management or securities industry, preferably involving exchange-traded funds, private fund formation, or fund structuring

- Demonstrated ability to provide practical, solutions-oriented legal advice while applying sound commercial judgment

- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across local and global teams

- Native-level fluency in Japanese and business-level proficiency in English

## Skills

### Required
- Japanese law
- investment management
- regulatory compliance
- contract negotiation
- corporate secretariat
- Japanese

### Nice to have
- digital assets
- related regulatory frameworks

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