Senior Paralegal

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Overview

This role will be responsible for supporting the Allergan Aesthetics Legal team in Asia Region and Thailand. The candidate will be responsible for supporting the team with company secretarial, contractual, marketing and intellectual property matters, as well as general paralegal and administrative tasks. 

Key Responsibilities

Corporate secretarial 

•    Manage corporate secretarial matters, including preparing board and shareholder resolutions, and board appointments and resignations
•    Prepare and support for online filings, including liaison with other relevant departments e.g. Finance, with relevant authorities to maintain business licenses and statutory reports
•    Maintenance of internal corporate register database

Contracting

•    Contracts management 
•    Assist in preparation and negotiation of commercial agreements with distributors, hospitals, group purchasing organizations, governmental entities and healthcare professionals
•    Negotiate and redline deviations from standard templates
•    Draft contract language to address unique situations/concerns as requested
•    Support in updating legal templates as required
•    Organize and maintain legal templates and databases

Intellectual property

•    Support and coordinate with Commercial team and IP counsel on IP licensing agreements
•    Coordinate amongst local stakeholders and communicate with IP counsel to manage various company IP protection efforts, including dealing with IP infringements by third parties.
•    Coordinate trademark clearances between Commercial team and IP counsel

General paralegal tasks 

•    Coordination and preparation of periodic reports as requested by senior management team 
•    Identify training needs and assist in development and presentation of training and education regarding legal requirements and developments
•    Coordinating and organizing legal trainings 
•    Supports the Legal team on critical projects within the region
•    Support Compliance Program including coordinating and partnering with Compliance on review and preparation of SOPs, programs, templates etc
•    General paralegal work requested on an as-needs basis, including legal research
•    General administrative work as needed to support Legal team e.g. organizing legal team meetings; coordinating invoice payments and travel arrangements
 

• Fluent spoken and written English
• Proven ability to handle multiple concurrent responsibilities in a highly dynamic environment
• Strong ability to work efficiently and effectively with time-sensitive materials
• Excellent judgment and demonstrated discretion in handling confidential information
• Ability to maintain organized files and databases
• Good drafting, analysis and communication skills
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite of products

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.