Senior Legal Counsel - Property and Planning

A Snapshot

As the Senior Legal Counsel - Property and Planning, you will report to Senior Director, Capital Markets, and work closely with various teams and leadership across the Asia Pacific region, making your mark in a number of ways:

• You will work closely with the AirTrunk Legal, Site Selection and Development teams and other key business stakeholders, applying your broad expertise and knowledge to lead and drive key site selection, planning, leasing and acquisition workstreams across the APJ region.
• You will advise on and shape new, significant and unique initiatives, strategies and processes being developed across the site selection, property, planning, land acquisition space to enable the rapid expansion of AirTrunk data centre developments across APJ, utilising your conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications and convey them appropriately.
• You will be able to hone new skills and expertise in related workstreams as required, such as energy, construction, development and procurement, applying an in-depth knowledge of AirTrunk’s business, operations, technologies and services and providing legal support on AirTrunk’s strategic initiatives.
• You will create informal and formal networks involving coordination among a broad range of groups and provide thought leadership on matters relating to real property, and land acquisitions.

Your Day to Day

• Review and negotiate legal contracts, and provide practical, commercial and strategic legal advice on a range of property and planning workstreams across APJ, and clearly conveying advanced information concisely and commercially and influencing diverse stakeholder groups to achieve desired outcomes.
• Collaborate across a number of different teams and support the Site Selection and Development teams to implement new, or improve on existing, commercial arrangements and contractual frameworks and policies to support rapid expansion of data centre developments through APJ.
• Monitor and identify emerging property, foreign investment, planning issues and developments from a legal or regulatory perspective, drive initiatives to ensure awareness, and compliance and improve processes within AirTrunk, including through training, thought leadership and development of new policies and procedures.
• Advise the Site Selection and Development teams as needed to monitor, manage, and resolve claims and/or disputes.

Requirements

• Law degree from an accredited law school.
• Min. 8 years in real estate property experience gained from a reputable law firm and/or within an in-house environment, experience in planning a plus.
• Experience in advising across a broad range of property-related areas, across APJ markets.
• Proven track record in applying independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results, comfortable in being accountable for results, which may impact the entire site selection team.
• Demonstrated ability to apply sound judgement and commercial acumen to a range of negotiations, whilst delivering practical legal advice that manages risk.
• Ability to autonomously and efficiently manage multiple workstreams, priorities and stakeholders.
• Excellent influencing, negotiation, relationship building and stakeholder management skills. At ease in creating formal and informal networks for collaboration, ability to convey advanced information clearly and concisely.
• Enjoys being challenged, has a “can do” attitude, is prepared to go above and beyond and is eager to learn and develop an in-depth knowledge of AirTrunk’s business and operations.
• Thrives in a fun, team-oriented, fast-paced working environment.