IN-HOUSE OPENING IN CHINA AT LEADING INTERNET / SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY

onDecember 19, 2013 at 10:00 AMJanuary 9, 2017 at 3:22 PM

Ed. note: The Asia Chronicles column is authored by Kinney Recruiting. Kinney has made more placements of U.S. associates, counsels and partners in Asia than any other recruiting firm in each of the past six years. You can reach them by email: asia@kinneyrecruiting.com.

We currently have a very exciting and rare type of in-house opening in China at one of the world’s leading internet and social media companies. Our client is looking for an IP Transactional / TMT / Licensing attorney with 2 to 6 years experience. The new hire will be based in Shenzhen or Shanghai. Mandarin is not required (deal documentation will be in English) but is preferred. A solid reason to be in China and a commitment to that market is required of course. This new hire will likely be US qualified (but could also be qualified in UK or other jurisdictions) and with experience and training at a top law firm’s IP transactional / TMT practice and could be currently at a law firm or in-house. Qualified candidates currently Asia based, Europe based or US based will be considered. The new hire’s supervisors in this technology transactions in-house team are very well regarded US trained IP transactional lawyers, with substantial experience at Silicon Valley firms. The culture and atmosphere in this in-house group and the company in general is entrepreneurial, team oriented, and the work is cutting edge, even for a cutting edge industry. The upside of being in an important strategic in-house position in this fast growing and world leading internet company is of the “sky is the limit” variety. Its a very exciting place to be in China for a rising IP transactional lawyer in our opinion, for many reasons beyond the basic info we can share here in this ad / post. This is a special A+ opportunity.

General Description:
Exciting and collaborative Technology Transactions group seeking attorney to work on cross-border licensing transactions. This attorney will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of English agreements. Work scope includes game, mobile content, video content, development, marketing, and distribution agreements. This attorney will work closely with internal business teams on matters including privacy, product policies, and open source. Will also conduct legal research and manage outside counsel.

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Of course these are just the very basics mentioned above and we are happy to go into all the exciting details about this company and the position with anyone who is interested and qualified. If you are interested, please feel free to reach out to us at asia@kinneyrecruiting.com and Robert Kinney or Yuliya Vinokurova will be happy to set up a phone call with you.

We have other in-house openings and numerous law firm openings in HK / China, Singapore and Tokyo at present. While its certainly not a boom hiring market, there are a number of openings at top firms. It remains a very selective market, but the very well qualified US associate looking to lateral to or within Asia today, especially HK / China, will have choices in M&A, cap markets, project finance, acquisition finance, FCPA / white collar litigation and arbitration. If you are interested in such a move or just would like to discuss the market and what might exist for you for a potential move in the medium term or long term future, or if you would like to discuss what a transfer to Asia would likely be like at your firm, please feel free to reach out to us at any time at asia@kinneyrecruiting.com. We do make a lot of placements of US associates in Asia, but we don’t need to eventually place or even represent all of the great US associates that reach out to us for advice and / or to discuss the Asia markets. We have never tried to convince anyone to start a job search, apply for an opening or accept an offer, but we push for everyone we work with or simply advise to make the most informed decisions that they possibly can when faced with such exciting career options. Its an information and relationship business that we are running here, rather than a typical recruiting practice.