The Senior Legal Counsel will provide frontline legal documentation and advisory support to business unitsdrafting, negotiating, and operationalizing contracts and regulatoryaligned templatesso transactions move fast, risks are controlled, and compliance is demonstrable.
A. Contract Drafting, Review & Negotiation
- Draft, review, and negotiate MSAs, SOWs, addenda, NDAs, service agreements, licensing/POC agreements, marketing/ad agency contracts (e.g., DTI permits), and standard commercial documentation.
- Ensure inclusion of critical risk controls (termination rights, limits on liability & indemnities, audit rights/MORB compliance, data privacy & information security, IP, nonsolicit, regulatory clauses, order of precedence, service credits not exclusive remedy).
- Produce clean markups and executivestyle issue lists with clear recommendations and fallback positions.
- Align templates with internal governance and regulatory requirements (e.g., BSP/MORB outsourcing, data privacy, consumer protection).
B. Legal Consultancy & Operationalization
- Provide practical, businessready legal advice, with steps to implement (not just opinions).
- Proactively convene alignment calls with BU/Compliance/Procurement/IT/InfoSec/Data Privacy/Operations to ensure advice is operationalized.
- Prepare playbooks/decision trees for recurring issues (e.g., liability caps by risk tier, audit rights language, changerequest mechanics, DTI filing guardrails).
- Advise on regulatory notifications and contract governance triggers (e.g., when BSP outsourcing rules apply).
C. Template & Knowledge Management
- Maintain and periodically refresh templates and clause libraries (e.g., Limits on Liability and indemnity carveouts, regulatory schedules).
- Capture lessons learned from negotiations and feed them back into playbooks and memory bundles (e.g., tata liabilities).
D. Transaction Support & Governance
- Support intake triage, prioritize deliverables, and coordinate with internal counsel and paralegals.
- Ensure deviations from standard clauses are documented, escalated, and approved per governance.
E. Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Serve as primary point of contact for assigned BUs; keep stakeholders informed via clear, concise updates.
- Translate complex legal issues into plain, actionable guidance for business, including onepage summaries of material changes/risks.
Qualifications:
Education & Licensure
- Bachelor of Laws / Juris Doctor
- Must be a Philippine Bar passer and in good standing
- MCLE VIII certified complete
Experience
- 25 years experience in commercial contract drafting and negotiation
- Preferably with prior in-house employment experience in banking/financial services, or coming from a law firm.
Technical Knowledge
- Solid working knowledge of: contract structuring, risk allocation, limits on liability and indemnity drafting
- basic corporate/commercial law
Skills & Competencies
- Strong legal writing and contractdrafting skills
- Ability to convert legal issues into clear, actionable, businessfriendly guidance
- Excellent communication skillsable to handle internal discussions and negotiations
- High attention to detail and strong issuespotting ability
- Ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously and meet deadlines
- Familiarity with MS Word redlining, contract templates, and working with playbooks
