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Purpose :
Provide general legal services to adidas Korea, LLC (“adidas Korea”) including general legal advice and contractual support to client groups.
Key Responsibilities:
• Value Added Partner
• Provide legal services for adidas Korea, including counselling, contract review, drafting and negotiation, structuring of transactions, legal risk assessment and dispute avoidance .
• Liaise closely with adidas Korea business functions (“Business Partners”) to support them on legal matters (e.g., legal services including . counselling, contract review, drafting and negotiation, structuring of transactions )
• Provide legal advice in the early stages of Business Partners ’ strategy development and key decisions.
• Provide legal guidance in relation to business plans, and help to ensure proper implementation of those plans, consistent with legal and regulatory objectives.
• Frequent contact with B usiness Partners to identify and discuss business issues and needs and to provide consistent and time-sensitive legal advice.
• Establishment of planning and legal strategies
• Devise legal strategies and solutions that safeguard against potential corporate liabilities in connection with legal disputes (e.g. litigations, meditations, administrative actions from government agencies).
• Work closely with Director of Legal & Government Relations to negotiate with counterparties and stakeholders in dealing with inducing withdrawal of cases, plea bargaining, leniency dispositions of government agencies, resolution of legal and business disputes .
• Work closely with B usiness Partners to summarize and communicate legal concepts clearly and effectively and help them synthesize legal frameworks in developing their business strategies.
• Internal and External Business Development / Client Service
• Improve standard form agreements and legal processes that help to scale globally with a consistent but locally relevant approach .
• Provide legal guidance in relation to business plans, and help to ensure proper implementation of those plans, consistent with legal and regulatory objectives.
• Monitor legal and regulatory changes in the relevant jurisdictions to assess the impact on relevant lines of business, and identify new business opportunities and/or regulatory risks.
• Provide effective and appropriate supervision and management of delivery of legal services through outside counsel.
• Risk Management
• Identify legal risks, and significant incidents of non-compliance, if any, and escalate these to Director, Legal & Government Relations.
• Manage and provide appropriate legal guidelines in due course in the event of PR crisis to minimize negative impact on company.
• Corporate Legal
• Support corporate recordkeeping needs for adidas Korea a nd act in accordance with directions from adidas AG Corporate Legal in connection with Meeting of Board of Business Executers and Ordinary General Meeting of Members.
• Support corporate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions and mergers.
Key Relationships:
• Reports to Director, Legal & Government Relations
• Interacts internally with all levels of organization.
• Interacts and works with other adidas legal department members.
• Interacts externally with outside counsel s and associations.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities :
• Excellent client relations skills (including ability to interact with clients at all levels from most senior to most junior).
• Business acumen and ability to make practical evaluations of risk essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required. Must be fluent in country’s local language and English.
• Strong background in contract law, drafting and negotiation and business counselling.
• Ability to work independently and manage and prioritize substantial and diverse workload.
• Strong team player with strong leadership skills
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Excellent presentation skills using Power Point.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
• Law Degree (LL.B.)
• 5 -8 years of law firm or legal department experience in Korea in general corporate, e-Commerce, privacy, transactional and commercial law , etc.
• Experience with multinational companies in Korea preferred .
