Legal Counsel, Real Estate & Planning

The role

You will lead site selection, property, planning, leasing, and acquisition workstreams across the APJ region. You will advise on initiatives to enable rapid data centre expansion and provide legal support on strategic initiatives.

What you will do

• Review and negotiate legal contracts
• Provide practical and commercial legal advice on property and planning workstreams across APJ
• Support the Site Selection team to implement or improve commercial arrangements and contractual frameworks
• Monitor and identify emerging property, foreign investment, and planning issues
• Drive initiatives to ensure awareness, compliance, and improved processes
• Advise the Site Selection team to monitor, manage, and resolve claims and disputes
• Lead site selection, property, planning, leasing and acquisition workstreams

Required qualifications

• Law degree from an accredited law school
• Minimum of 8 years in real property experience gained from a reputable law firm and/or within an in-house environment
• Experience in advising across a broad range of property-related areas, across APJ markets
• Demonstrated ability to apply sound judgement and commercial acumen to a range of negotiations
• Ability to autonomously and efficiently manage multiple workstreams, priorities and stakeholders
• Excellent negotiation, relationship building and stakeholder management skills

Nice to have

• experience in planning

Benefits

• flexible and safe working environment

About the company

AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company that operates a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region.