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Overview
Join our team as a Legal Manager to provide proactive and in-depth legal advice and ensure the Bank's interests are protected. You will support the Head of Legal by delivering business-focused legal advisory and transactional support across the entire Bank Group. This role is essential for balancing commercial objectives with regulatory compliance.
Your focus will be on strategizing and managing legal risks to minimize disputes, with particular emphasis on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and cross-border legal coordination.
The successful candidate(s) will report to the Head of Legal.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Functional (job responsibilities)
- Offer in-depth, business-focused legal advice to bank functions to minimize legal risks, issues, and disputes proactively.
- Review, draft, and negotiate a broad range of banking, business, commercial, and transactional documents (e.g., contracts, product documentation), ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to identify, analyze, and mitigate legal risks in new business initiatives, operations, projects, and new product development, and develop legally acceptable solutions.
- Manage and/or monitor litigation and disputes against the Bank/Bank Group, including claims, investigations, and litigation involving employees, customers, and third parties.
- Assist in implementing processes and providing legal oversight for corporate exercises, including M&A, joint ventures, investments, restructurings, and financing arrangements.
Jobholder Requirements
- Malaysian citizen.
Education/Qualification
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Hons).
- Advocate & Solicitor registered with the Malaysian Bar is a plus.
Experience/Requirements
- 8 years and above of Post-Qualification Experience (PQE) from a general practice with an established Malaysian legal firm, specializing in areas such as banking, conveyancing, corporate finance, restructuring, or banking litigation OR In-house counsel experience with a strong working knowledge of banking and financial services in Malaysia.
- Demonstrable expertise in Malaysian laws, particularly in banking and finance.
- Experience or working knowledge of drafting and negotiating ISDA Master Agreements and related collateral agreements (CSA, GMRA, FX Master Agreements) involving counterparties in various jurisdictions, as well as knowledge of structured products and derivatives (Added Advantage).
- Possesses commercial acumen, is resourceful, and capable of working with minimal supervision with excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (particularly in English), with strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to engage with a variety of stakeholders and colleagues at all levels.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
About Hong Leong Bank
We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage. Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach in making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.
We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organisation. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our “Digital at the Core” ethos, we are progressively digitising the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organisation.
Realise your full potential at Hong Leong Bank by applying now.
Skills Required
- Malaysian citizen
- Bachelor of Laws LLB with Honours
- At least 8 years of post-qualification experience from an established Malaysian legal firm or in-house counsel role
- Experience in banking, conveyancing, corporate finance, restructuring, or banking litigation
- Strong working knowledge of Malaysian banking and financial services law
- Commercial acumen and ability to work with minimal supervision
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in English
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to engage stakeholders and colleagues at all levels
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Registration as an Advocate and Solicitor with the Malaysian Bar
- Experience drafting and negotiating ISDA Master Agreements and collateral agreements, including CSA, GMRA, and FX Master Agreements
- Knowledge of structured products and derivatives
What We Do
Hong Leong Bank Berhad is one of the leading financial services organisations in Malaysia. With a heritage of more than 100 years, it provides comprehensive financial services covering consumer banking, business banking and trade finance, treasury, branch and transaction banking, wealth management, private banking and Islamic financial services. Its merger with EON Bank Group in 2011 has further embedded its position as a core banking franchise with an expanded distribution network of more than 300 branches across the country. With a proven track record in value creation and a highly recognised brand, Hong Leong Bank has also been extending its footprint in the region, with branches in Singapore and Hong Kong and wholly owned subsidiaries in Vietnam and Cambodia. In China, the Bank has a 20% shareholding in Bank of Chengdu Co., Ltd., Sichuan and a consumer finance joint venture. Hong Leong Bank is a subsidiary of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad, the financial services arm of the Hong Leong Group. Apart from banking, Hong Leong Financial Group is involved in the provision of insurance and takaful, as well as investment banking, unit trust, fund management and stock broking services
