Legal Counsel (Investment & Corporate Compliance)

Location Ho Chi Minh
Industry Energy/Oil & Mining
Category Legal/Compliance
Job reference 10828
Job type Permanent
Salary Negotiable
Consultant email nhu.dinh@manpower.com.vn
Date posted May 05, 2021
1. Key responsibilities:
  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A): Advising and doing due diligence; drafting/reviewing capital transfer agreements; advising and carrying out procedures for obtaining necessary licenses for investment and business; carrying out procedures for opening invested capital accounts and money transfer for contributed capital/purchase shares; advising on legal issues and carrying out other tasks until the M&A deal is completed;
  • Company incorporation: Advising and carrying out procedures for obtaining necessary license for investment and business; carrying out procedures for opening invested capital accounts and money transfer for contributed capital; carrying out post-licensing tasks (e.g. obtaining enterprise’s seal, declaring license tax, making initial reports, etc.); carrying out procedures for obtaining operation licenses for conditional business sectors; carrying out procedures for establishing branches, representative offices, business locations of enterprises; advising on legal issues and carrying out other related tasks;
  • Corporate compliance: Advising and carrying out compliance tasks during the operation of businesses (e.g., periodic reports, periodic meetings, notification/registration of changes to enterprise registration information, etc.); supporting businesses in inspection, examination sessions by the State authorities;
  • Corporate restructuring; business suspension, suspension of operation of investment project; enterprise dissolution, termination of operation of investment project; suspension/termination of operation of branches, representative offices and business locations;
  • Foreign loans: Drafting/reviewing loan agreements; registering loans to the State Bank of Vietnam, registering changes of loans to the State Bank of Vietnam; advising and carrying out procedures for loan disbursement and repayment; making periodic reports; advising on legal issues and carrying out other related tasks;
  • Legal support for foreigners: Advising and carrying out procedures for issuance/extension/re-issuance of work permits, visas, temporary resident cards;
  • Labor: Drafting/reviewing internal documents of enterprises, advising and carrying out procedures for registering internal labor regulations, collective labor agreements, establishment of trade unions, employment legal issue, etc.;
  • Advising and carrying out procedures for obtaining, amending, extending establishment licenses, terminating the operation of ranches/representative offices.
  • Directly contact, communicate, discuss, and participate in meeting with related parties to collect information and documents relevant to the case;
  • Contact and work with the competent State authorities, other relevant bodies, organizations and individuals to deliver the most effective results
  • Contemplate dossiers, draft documents, devise plans for resolving cases;
  • Be responsible for all assignments you are in charge; and other tasks as assigned by the GD
  • Prepare & control contracts/ agreements for land acquisitions including solving complains from farmers/ land owner.
2. What distinguishes you
  • Bachelor of Laws or higher;
  • 2-3 years of experience in solving matters described above;
  • Fluency in English: listening, speaking, reading and writing
  • Leadership skills, smart working, effective management of subordinates;
  • Logical thinking, sharp mind, flexibility;
  • Proactive, honest, meticulous, professional working attitude, high sense of responsibility;
  • Hard working and accept travel when required;