Legal & Regulatory Risk Adviser

About the role

Clyde & Co is looking for a Legal & Regulatory Risk Adviser for its APAC Legal & Regulatory Risk team covering Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. The role reports to the APAC Head of Legal & Regulatory Risk and works closely with the APAC Senior Risk Lawyer in Singapore. It is an in-house legal, regulatory and professional-risk position combining ownership of Singapore regulatory processes with regional advisory, governance and risk-management work. It is not a fee-earning role, nor a route back into private practice, and is not a legal secretarial, HR or general administrative support position.

Key responsibilities

• Manage Singapore legal-services regulatory processes, including lawyer and law-practice registrations, renewals, notifications, annual returns and regulatory records
• Prepare and submit LSRA Certificates of Registration and related eServices applications, and monitor regulatory conditions, filing deadlines, lawyer ratios and registration status
• Research and apply requirements from the LSRA, MinLaw, SILE and other authorities, escalating higher-risk matters where appropriate
• Coordinate regulatory enquiries, reviews and audits, and prepare correspondence and first drafts of submissions
• Maintain SOPs, compliance registers and improve policies, procedures, guidance and templates
• Support professional indemnity insurance, governance matters, lateral hires, operating-model changes and other APAC regulatory projects
• Prepare briefings, training and management updates and work with internal and external stakeholders to complete agreed actions

Required profile

• A law degree and relevant legal, regulatory, compliance or governance experience
• Either a junior lawyer with about 2-4 years of post-qualification or equivalent experience, or a legal/regulatory risk professional with about 3-6 years of relevant experience
• Admission in Singapore or another common-law or civil law jurisdiction is advantageous but not essential; a current practising certificate is not required
• Eligibility: applicants must be Singapore citizens or permanent residents; employment pass or work pass sponsorship is not available

Required skills

• Ability to interpret legislation, rules and regulatory guidance and turn them into practical requirements
• Experience with regulatory filings, professional registrations or other deadline-driven compliance processes
• Strong drafting, judgement, organisation and stakeholder-management skills
• Strong Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience with compliance trackers, dashboards or reporting tools is useful
• Advantageous: experience in internal risk, regulatory, independence, quality or general counsel functions; knowledge of Singapore legal-services regulation, LSRA or SILE processes; working knowledge of Chinese; experience across jurisdictions

What we offer

• A varied in-house legal and regulatory risk role with exposure to senior risk and business stakeholders in APAC and globally
• Ownership of core Singapore regulatory processes and participation in broader APAC regulatory matters
• A long-term specialist career path in legal risk, regulation, governance and compliance
• Development-specific training, with possible support for advanced legal or compliance training for non-lawyers