Junior Legal Manager, Goto

Job Description

Location Jakarta Work Type Permanent Application Posted February 11, 2022

About the Role

As a Junior Legal Manager, you will have an opportunity to manage exciting deals and corporate actions together with other members of the GoTo Legal Team. You are expected to be hands-on, collaborative and innovative. The role will require you to think outside the box and solve any issues that you face in creative and commercial ways within the boundaries of the laws and regulations. You will also be at the forefront of record-breaking deals and setting precedents for Indonesia’s legal environment. The role is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

What You Will Do

• Manage deals and day to day corporate actions, such as drafting the relevant transaction documents, preparing the necessary corporate approvals, liaising with an external counsel (where necessary), assisting the closing of a transaction, and maintaining a record of corporate documents
• Liaise and coordinate with other departments/functions within the organization to ensure proper and timely execution of deals and corporate actions from a business and commercial perspective
• Advise internal stakeholders on any legal and good corporate governance issues and maintain close stakeholder management
• Maintain the Legal Team’s internal records of the GoTo Group’s corporate documents, whether as a part of day to day corporate actions or deals
• Develop and maintain internal policies on the execution of various corporate actions and deals, as well as internal knowledge and know-how bank

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree in law (S1)
• 2-4 years of experience in M&A, joint venture, and investment, preferably with prior working experience in a law firm
• Have a good understanding of Indonesian company law
• Advanced verbal and written Bahasa Indonesia and English proficiency
• Excellent project management skills and a good sense of responsibility
• Ability to properly deliver under pressure and on a tight deadline
• Strong business and commercial mindset
• Open mind and eagerness to learn new things
• Cross-cultural sensitivity.

About the Team

The GoTo Legal team is a highly collaborative group of approximately 50 lawyers stationed across Jakarta, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The gist of our role is to support the team’s effort to scale the GoTo Group’s business operations while managing legal risks appropriately. Working with the Corporate Development, Business, Product and various functional teams across the organization, we act as a strategic partner for GoTo on legal matters regarding fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, strategic deals and partnerships, capital market, fintech products, data protection, and privacy, intellectual property, and antitrust/competition, among other domains.

It is no secret that we take our duties seriously as a team. Our team has supported GoTo in successfully closing record-breaking deals and expanding internationally. We were also awarded 2019, 2020, and 2021 Asian Legal Business Indonesia In House Team of the Year, being major milestones for our legal family. What drives us is our shared goal to provide the best deliverables to our internal clients, make an impact to the society and keep pushing our collective bar higher.

As a team, we are not only concerned with the growth of the company but also the professional and personal growth of each team member. In order to help such a growth, we have regular professional development sessions and bonding sessions to help improve the legal acumen of our members and take some time off to bond over our shared love for delicious food, movies, and songs, among many other things.