Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Legal Manager/Assistant Legal Counsel (3+ years’ PQE) to provide day-to-day legal support to RD Group.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Provide legal advice and support on regulatory matters, legal proceedings, dispute resolutions and other contentious matters where necessary.
• Oversee and resolve legal disputes by developing case strategies, conducting legal search, preparing court documents or regulatory submissions, and giving recommendations to mitigate RD Group’s litigation and regulatory risks.
• Liaise and manage external counsel on regulatory and litigious matters.
• Advise on intellectual properties matters including handling trademark and patent applications in different jurisdictions.
• Draft, review, negotiate and advise on a variety of contracts and agreements including but not limited to non-disclosure agreements, commercial agreements and procurement agreements.
• Provide accurate, practical and timely legal advice to internal stakeholders on a broad range of legal matters, including but not limited to regulatory and compliance matters, intellectual properties, employment, data protection in Hong Kong and other foreign jurisdictions.
• Assist in other ad-hoc tasks or special projects as assigned.

Requirements:

• Qualified lawyer in Hong Kong or other common law jurisdictions with a minimum of 3 years of post-qualification experience at a reputable law firm or in-house environment.
• Possess practical experience in litigation and regulatory matters.
• Sound knowledge in laws and regulations governing financial, fintech and payment services (including SVF), virtual assets (in particular, stablecoins) and experience in dealing with regulators (such as HKMA and SFC) is an advantage.
• Excellent organizational, time management, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to cope with high level of responsibility, tight timeline and confidential matters.
• Proactive, reliable and capable to work independently and as a team.
• Excellent command of oral and written communication skills in English and Chinese (including Cantonese and Mandarin).

General Culture and Benefits of RD Technologies:

• Exciting and collaborative startup environment.
• Excellent company culture: give your best while having fun and grow as a person.
• A flat structure: your ideas get heard by the right people very quickly.
• Creating your own profile in the startup ecosystem.
• Plenty of responsibilities from day one.
• Casual dress code.
• Free coffee, tea, drinks and snacks daily.
• In-house gym facilities.
• Medical & Life insurance.
• Regular and fun company activities.
• Other leaves in addition to annual leaves, e.g. marriage leave, compassionate leave.

Data collected would be used for recruitment purposes only. Applicants who do not hear from us may consider their application unsuccessful and their data will be destroyed within 24 months of receipt