Business and Legal Affairs Director

1 Minute ago • 8-10 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

As Legal Director, you will lead and manage legal matters across the Southeast Asia region, partnering with internal stakeholders to support a wide range of business activities. You will ensure legal compliance and enable the business to navigate complex commercial, licensing, and intellectual property issues with clarity and confidence. This role involves negotiating, drafting, and reviewing commercial agreements, providing legal guidance, advising on deal-making strategies, developing standard form agreements, overseeing contract databases, providing legal support for internal corporate restructuring, and supervising litigation matters.
Must have:
  • Philippine-qualified lawyer
  • 8-10 years of post-bar admission experience
  • Experience in commercial transactions
  • Experience in contract law and intellectual property rights
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • Strong relationship management skills
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively
  • Fluent in English

Job Details

Sony Music Entertainment is looking for a strategic and experienced Legal Director to join our Southeast Asia (SEA) team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated legal professional to make a meaningful impact in a fast-changing, creative, and collaborative environment within the global music and entertainment industry.

As Legal Director, you will lead and manage legal matters across the SEA region, partnering with internal stakeholders to support a wide range of business activities.

You will ensure legal compliance and enable the business to navigate complex commercial, licensing, and intellectual property issues with clarity and confidence.

 

 

What you'll do:

• Negotiate, draft, and review a wide range of commercial agreements, including third-party relationships, license-in and license-out deals and distribution agreements, artist contracts and other key commercial  transactions.

• Provide legal guidance and support to business teams during local artist signings and other contractual negotiations.

• Lead and advise on deal-making strategies for digital initiatives and new business ventures, such as concerts, live events, endorsements, and sponsorships.

• Develop, maintain, and update standard form agreements and contractual provisions to align with evolving business models and legal/regulatory changes.

• Oversee internal contract databases and systems for managing artist rights and contractual obligations.

•  Provide legal support for internal corporate restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and related transactional documentation.

• Advise on and support the implementation of corporate compliance frameworks, including business affairs policies, law-compliance reporting, and statutory filings.

• Supervise litigation matters, including the engagement and management of external counsel.

• Work independently and provide reliable, commercially savvy legal counsel with minimal supervision.

 

Who you are:

• Philippine-qualified lawyer with a minimum of 8–10 years of post-bar admission experience, ideally gained through a combination of private practice and in-house roles (entertainment/media/tech sector preferred).

• Strong experience in commercial transactions, contract law, and intellectual property rights.

• Professional legal advisory experience covering Southeast Asia, including Vietnam and Malaysia, is a plus.

• A keen understanding of the entertainment landscape in Southeast Asia, including local market nuances.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multicultural, cross-border environment.

• Fluent in English; proficiency in any Southeast Asian language is an advantage.

 

What we give you:

•    You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day.
•    A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best.
•    Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.
•    The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next.
•    We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
•    Annual leave, medical leave and medical insurance.

 

Equal Opportunities

As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.

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