
Senior Legal Counsel
- Beijing
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be an active business partner to GEHC China HFS business and BD team, providing ongoing legal advice to business and working with business to identify strategic opportunities to increase growth/reduce costs in a highly regulated environment.
- Drive projects, transactions, new scheme feasibility study to move forward, with flexibility and solution provider mindset.
- Oversee emerging risks as well as corrective actions, and implement strategies that will protect the business and manage business risk.
- Support compliance investigations and compliance projects as appropriate
- Monitor disputes and litigations and supervise external counsels with controlled budget.
- Anticipate and drive solutions for unassigned legal and business issues and growth initiatives.
- Attorney qualification in China.
- Attorney qualification in other countries (U.S., U.K, etc.) is a plus.
- A minimum of 10 years of business law experience at a large international law firm and/or a multinational corporation’s legal department, including drafting, negotiating, and closing complex business transactions in a regulated environment.
- Experiences in JV and M&A transactions, PE/VC investments, and/or financial leasing are required.
- Expertise in anti-trust and/or litigation is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and resolving complex legal issues quickly and effectively.
- Demonstrated experience prioritizing conflicting demands from multiple business clients in an extremely fast-paced environment.
- Experience of the Healthcare industry and previous exposure to medical industry regulations is preferable.
- Ability to effectively communicate in both English and Chinese.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and strategic skills
- Strategic thinking, strong business acumen and lean approach
- Team player, think in other people’s shoe, flexibility, solution provider
- Creativity, vision, and sound judgment in developing and implementing legal solutions
- Interest in continuing to learn and grow both in legal and business areas
- Desire to solve complex client problems legally, ethically and compliantly