Legal Specialist

We are looking for a Legal Specialist to join our License Compliance Legal team. This is a regional role where you will be covering the anti-piracy enforcement work in Asia Pacific.

What will you do?

Manage external counsel

·       Manage retention of external counsel

·       Manage external counsel

Manage legal enforcement

·       Interface with Asia/Pacific License Compliance (“LC”) team, for all LC related matters

·       Manage both civil and criminal enforcement actions

·       Manage letter program (both in-house program, as well as external counsel program)

·       Negotiate/ review/ draft settlement agreements (in both Chinese and English, as needed)

Support of local business

·       Provide support on piracy prevention issues and training to LC team as needed

·       Support LC audit program, as needed, including escalations to legal action

·       Review leads for raid action, including providing all support needed by external counsel for raid action

·       Draft and review various legal documents as required by local business

What are the requirements?

·   Past experience in dealing with anti-piracy, trademark, copyright protection or other intellectual property enforcement issues for multinational companies is required.

·      Experience in dealing with government (enforcement) authorities is desired, along with a proven ability to develop and maintain a good and solid relationship with these government agencies.

·    Ability to work independently, with strong analytical ability to seek efficient solutions suitable for the anti-piracy campaigns.

·       Must have good writing, oral communication, problem-solving and negotiation skills.

·       Excellent Chinese and English skills are required due to working with China market, both written and spoken.

·      Familiarity with contractual documents covering acquisition and/or licensing of computer software and covering software reseller/distributor relationships is desirable.

·   College degree required. Degree(s) in law, law enforcement, business, or computer science is (are) a plus.

·     Ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years of related experience in piracy prevention or a legal-related area, but will think like a business person in order to better support and facilitate the goals of the LC team and SISW sales managers.