Private Funds Associate, Corporate, Singapore

We are looking for an Associate to join our highly successful private funds practice in Singapore.

• Work as part of a team to deliver commercial and practical legal solutions to our clients.
• Draft legal documents clearly and concisely.
• Create solutions using your legal knowledge, applying effective research techniques. 
• Challenge and test advice against legal compliance and risks.  
• Be proactive to pursue and expand legal knowledge to ensure legal knowledge and technical expertise up to date.  
• Utilise client focus initiatives in terms of driving understanding and monitoring service levels of their individual client needs. 
• Engage with knowledge resources effectively and collaborate in knowledge initiatives for the Firm. 
• Manage matters with strong commercial discipline - including client and team communication, timely timesheet submission, and adhering to matter opening and conflicts clearance processes. 
• Adopt best delivery tools including innovative technologies, Legal Support Centre, Resource Management, Legal Project Managers, Matter Balance Reports. 

• The candidate should be 1 - 4 PQE (UK notional) with a common law qualification from Singapore, the UK, Australia, Hong Kong or Canada.
• We are looking for someone with fund formations experience in top tier private practice at an international firm
• You will be a self-starter with an aptitude for and experience in client engagement and development, a strong team player and able to lead deals with minimal supervision while managing different work-streams.
• The ideal candidate must have a strong drafting skills.
• Chinese/Mandarin would be helpful but is not a pre-requisite for the role. 

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution.

Our Global Private Funds Practice is a market leading practice with a particular focus on closed-ended private equity, real estate, and infrastructure and debt funds. We support fund sponsors on fund formation, co-investments, and restructuring. Our team works closely with our colleagues in the firm’s private equity, real estate, energy and infrastructure and finance groups. In addition, we also advise investors in such funds, including pension funds, insurance companies, funds-of-funds and many sovereign wealth and other supranational institutions.

Clifford Chance is recognised as the global market leader in working with alternative fund managers and other asset managers to establish and operate the whole range of alternative private investment funds. Our global team advises managers throughout the fund life cycle including fund establishment, structuring and marketing as well as ongoing operational issues, secondary transactions and restructuring mandates.

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