Legal Counsel, Financing (4 to 7 PQE) Digital Infrastructure Platform

Our client is a fast-growing digital infrastructure platform with a strong regional presence and ambitious growth plans across Asia Pacific. As the business continues to expand, they are looking to hire a Legal Counsel to join their legal team in Singapore.

This is an excellent opportunity for a 4 to 7 PQE lawyer to move into a commercially focused in-house role within the digital infrastructure sector. The role will have a strong focus on financing matters, supporting the business across debt financing, refinancing, capital projects, corporate transactions, and general commercial legal work.

The successful candidate will work closely with senior management, finance, investment, commercial, and operational teams, as well as external counsel and financing counterparties across multiple jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the business on financing and treasury-related matters, including debt financing, refinancing, facility agreements, security documents, intercreditor arrangements, and related transaction documentation.
• Work closely with finance, investment, and corporate teams on funding requirements for growth projects, acquisitions, and platform expansion.
• Review, negotiate, and manage legal documentation relating to financing transactions, corporate transactions, commercial contracts, and strategic projects.
• Support regional legal matters across Asia Pacific, working with internal stakeholders and external counsel across different jurisdictions.
• Provide legal support on digital infrastructure projects, including data centre developments, commercial arrangements, procurement, and operational matters.
• Assist with corporate governance, regulatory, compliance, and general legal matters as required.
• Help manage external counsel effectively, ensuring high-quality, commercially practical, and cost-efficient legal support.
• Provide pragmatic legal advice to business teams and senior stakeholders in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Requirements

• 4 to 7 years PQE, ideally gained from a leading law firm and/or in-house legal team.
• Strong financing experience is essential.
• Candidates from banking and finance, project finance, acquisition finance, leveraged finance, structured finance, general lending, or infrastructure finance backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
• Direct law firm experience is very welcome. Prior in-house experience is not required.
• Digital infrastructure, data centre, telecommunications, real estate, energy, or infrastructure-related experience would be advantageous, but is not essential.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and transaction management skills.
• Commercially minded, hands-on, and comfortable working closely with non-legal stakeholders.
• Able to manage multiple workstreams across jurisdictions and communicate clearly with internal and external parties.
• Singapore-qualified, England & Wales-qualified, or other common law-qualified lawyers will be considered.