AddressAbout GBG
GBG is the leading expert in global digital identity. We combine our powerful technology, the most accurate data coverage and our talented team to deliver award-winning location intelligence, identity verification and fraud prevention solutions.
With over 30 years’ experience, we bring together a team of over 1,250 dedicated experts with local industry insight from around the world to make it easy for businesses to identify and verify customers and locations, protecting everyone, everywhere from fraud.
Why you should be@GBG
- We make the world a safer place
- We trust each other and win together
- We are local experts in a global business
- We want you to be yourself
- We grow when you grow
The team
The GBG Legal Team plays a vital role in the success of GBG’s business. As a team, we aim to adopt a market-leading customer-centric stance, both to our external customers and internal stakeholders. We’ve been recognised for the contribution we make and for our initiatives to streamline processes and to provide commercial legal support to this fast-paced and innovative organisation.
The role
You will act as a Legal Counsel covering GBG’s APAC region, providing advice on commercial contracts, new partners, products, services & jurisdictions, reporting into our APAC Principal Legal Counsel
What you will do
- Negotiating high-value, complex, and often multi-jurisdictional contracts with GBG’s APAC customers, partners, and suppliers
- Providing pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice on contractual matters, general corporate matters, new products, services, technology, and entry into new APAC markets
- Building deep business partnering relationships with a broad group of GBG team members in multiple countries
- Working collaboratively with your Global Privacy, Legal, Risk, and Regulation team members to ensure that your legal advice appropriately reflects regulatory requirements and GBG’s risk appetite
- Monitoring and tracking new legal and regulatory risks in the APAC region
- Seeking advice from external counsel (if necessary)
- A lawyer (4+ Years post qualification) with prior experience advising on APAC cross-border issues
- Commercial contracts and privacy expertise, preferably gained in a technology or data-centric business in the APAC region
- A lawyer with a private practice background moving in-house
- Ability to spot key risks, analyse and assess risk, and provide actionable recommendations
- Work autonomously and collaboratively, excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels
Behaviours we'd like to see
BenefitsWe have a vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.
As part of our commitment to our team and flexible working approach, we have created a Work When and Where You Want Policy to give our team members choice and empowerment, and to support a balance in work and home life. Please ask your Talent Attraction Specialist for more information on this and our Family Friendly policy if you want to find out more!
Next steps
If you’re interested, please apply! We’re looking to hire the best and most engaged people into our business and we’ll make an offer once we’ve found that person.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Specialist if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.
To chat with the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to *******@gbgplc.com and we’ll be in touch.
Make life@GBG work for you.
