Legal Counsel (Projects) (APAC)
- Market p25–p75
- SGD 77k–SGD 135k
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Company Overview
STACK Infrastructure builds, owns, and operates hyperscale and colocation data centers that power the world’s most ambitious technology companies. With a rapidly expanding footprint across APAC, STACK combines deep development expertise, flexible capital, and operational discipline to deliver critical digital infrastructure at scale.
Our clients include the largest hyperscale cloud platforms. We are building a regional platform defined by speed of delivery, power reliability, and long-term partnership — and we are assembling the team to lead that effort.
Role purpose
This role will be based in Singapore and will support STACK Infrastructure’s APAC business across markets including Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore.
This role will support STACK Infrastructure APAC on development, construction, procurement, long-lead equipment, operations vendor contracting and project delivery workstreams.
The role is intended to provide dedicated legal coverage for the project execution side of the business: building the asset, procuring the equipment and services required for the asset, and supporting the contracts needed to operate the asset once live.
The successful candidate will work closely with the General Counsel, development / delivery team, engineering team, procurement team, operations team, finance team, project managers and external counsel across APAC.
Key responsibilities: The role will cover:
Development and construction
Support legal review, drafting and negotiation of construction and delivery contracts across APAC.
Review and negotiate early contractor involvement agreements, advance orders, letters of intent, letters of award, GC contracts, demolition contracts, substation contracts, core & shell contracts, MEP fitout contracts, works contracts, design contracts and consultant appointments.
Support review of delivery-stage issues, including variations, delay, EOT, LDs, defects, payment disputes, notices, practical completion, handover, commissioning and claims avoidance.
Support project teams on contract interpretation and risk management during delivery.
Escalate material legal, commercial, delivery, claims, bankability or termination issues to the General Counsel.
Procurement and long-lead equipment
Support procurement and vendor contracting for long-lead equipment and OFCI procurement.
Review and negotiate MSAs, order forms, supply contracts, supply-and-install contracts, services contracts and vendor terms.
Support procurement of generators, chillers, switchgear, electrical equipment, mechanical equipment, spares, fuel and other critical data centre equipment and services.
Advise on title and risk transfer, delivery risk, delay remedies, warranties, defects, acceptance, testing, liquidated damages, security, insurance, liability, termination and supplier insolvency risk.
Maintain procurement templates, playbooks and fallback positions.
Construction ancillary and financing-related documents
Support review of construction ancillary documents, including tripartite deeds, cooperation deeds, insurance policies, performance bonds, parent guarantees, novation agreements, statutory declarations, completion / handover certificates and collateral warranties.
Support project finance flow-downs into GC, construction, procurement and operations contracts.
Work with the General Counsel and finance team to ensure relevant project documents are financeable and compatible with lender requirements.
Track key deliverables needed for financing CPs, such as executed project documents, insurance, bonds, consents, certificates and ancillary documents.
Operations vendor contracts
Support operations-stage vendor contracts, including critical equipment maintenance services agreements, operations services agreements, manpower services, MEP scheduled maintenance, managed services, general housekeeping, security services, cleaning services, spare parts supply, fuel supply, customer works, minor works and site services contracts.
Advise on service levels, KPIs, service credits, maintenance obligations, renewal / termination, vendor default, access control, safety obligations, incident support and customer-impacting operational issues.