Legal Executive

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Legal Executive, you will support Vero's legal and compliance functions by assisting with contract reviews, providing guidance on routine legal matters, and coordinating with internal teams to ensure legal processes run smoothly. Working closely with the Senior Legal Counsel, you will help maintain consistent legal practices, support compliance, and contribute to corporate governance and other legal matters as needed.

• Conduct first-pass legal review of client and vendor contracts against the Group's standard contracting positions and template framework; resolve routine points independently and escalate material risk to the Senior Legal Counsel.

• Produce summaries of key terms in incoming contracts and flag points for the Senior Legal Counsel's attention; liaise directly with account teams and counterparties on lower risk matters under senior oversight.

• Prepare fallback positions, track open points, and turn around revised drafts.

• Conduct legal research on discrete, jurisdiction-specific questions to support the senior counsel's advisory and negotiation work.

• Maintain the legal template library and template architecture, ensuring correct version control and consistent use across markets.

• Provide legal administration support: organizing the legal document repository, tracking obligations and key dates from a legal standpoint.

• Prepare internal guidance, FAQs, and template use reminders for account and business teams, and coordinate with them on document status and turnaround.

• Coordinate with and advise account and business teams on routine legal questions and support compliance matters, referring anything of substance to the Senior Legal Counsel.

• Support compliance across the Group, including advertising, tax/invoicing, data privacy (PDPA and equivalent regulations), policy maintenance, and routine compliance inquiries.

• Support corporate transactions and governance matters, including document organization, corporate records, and tracking of transaction-related action items.

• Provide other legal and administrative support to the Senior Legal Counsel as business needs arise.

ABOUT YOU

• Law degree (LLB or equivalent).

• Fresh grad, 2-3 years' commercial/contracts experience, in-house or private practice; agency, media, or marketing exposure an advantage.

• Strong bilingual English/Vietnamese drafting.

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams across different jurisdictions and cultures.

• Proactive, collaborative, and willing to learn, with sound judgment to recognize when issues should be escalated to the Senior Legal Counsel.

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning strategic communications consultancy, advising some of Southeast Asia’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations.

B Corp certified across all its offices, and a signatory of the Clean Creatives pledge since 2022, Vero adopts a forward-thinking approach to public relations and marketing, striving to enact meaningful change for clients and society at large.

Vero welcomed creative agency Mad Hat Asia into its network in 2026, expanding the team to over 250 PR, social, digital, influence, creative, and events consultants in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its government relations arm, Vero Advocacy, helps organizations navigate the dynamic and complex public policy and regulatory environments in Southeast Asia. Vero’s regional footprint and integrated capabilities bring unique perspectives to earned media, prioritizing digital technology, creative storytelling, and stakeholder engagement in championing stories of progress.

Recognized as one of the 100 Top PR Agencies in the World and Best Agency to Work For by PRovoke Media, and Southeast Asia Champion for Innovation by Earned First, Vero designs integrated marketing and communications strategies that resonate within and across this vibrant region’s digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Working at Vero:

You will be a member of a multicultural team of communication specialists spread across the region and brought together by their passion for creative and efficient strategies. We take pride in creating deeply simulating flexible workplaces that are professional and inspiring.

Vero also invests in a comprehensive set of employee benefits, including but not limited to:

• Unlimited Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgment when given guidelines for making decisions about taking a holiday, and we know that our teams work better when they can rest and take a proper break from work. Our goal is that every team takes an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year.

• Hybrid Work: At Vero, we believe in flexibility and trust. We offer a hybrid work model, and fixed in-office days are determined by team leaders depending on workload and collaborative needs.

• International Travel: Where relevant and possible, Vero encourages teams to travel for events/client work and to meet Vero colleagues in the region. Manager-level team members have the opportunity to visit some of Vero’s offices, attend industry events, and follow their clients if they handle regional projects.

• Thought Leadership and Training: Vero sponsors team members with training tools and resources, both internal and external. Details of training programs and incentives will be shared upon your onboarding. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for team development.

• Health Insurance: Vero provides private medical insurance as a benefit. The actual package and structure of the insurance may be determined by the Company and at its sole discretion.

• Mental Health Support: Vero understands the importance of access to proper mental health support; all our employees can access counseling. The access to and content of your counseling sessions are 100% confidential; only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions.