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Assistant General Counsel Jobs in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea at McKinsey & Company
Title: Assistant General Counsel
Company: McKinsey & Company
Location: Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Who You'll Work With
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
Your Impact
You will provide counsel on engagement-related legal issues as well as issues of professional or reputational risk.
Specifically, you will support Client Service Teams on complex legal arrangements including performance-based arrangements, technology deployments, M&A arrangements and others. You will operate autonomously and use excellent and nuanced judgment and leverage your ability to problem-solve across multiple contexts and stakeholders, including with Senior Partners. You will develop areas of subject matter expertise and will leverage that expertise in your client work and across the broader department.
You will lead and implement projects that impact key priorities including team and client service efficiencies. You will serve as a subject matter expert and will radiate your knowledge across Asia and Global Legal. You will provide leadership to lesser tenured colleagues including serving as a mentor and trainer for colleagues. You may be responsible for hiring and onboarding new colleagues.
Your work will help mitigate key risks in our client service and enable client service through balanced and risk-calibrated guidance and advice. You will focus on providing excellent client service, leading on collaborations within and outside of the Legal team and will focus on fostering an environment that focuses on providing excellent legal advice coupled with sound commercial judgement, developing efficiencies in how we operate as a team and in how we provide client service.
You will be based in Seoul, Korea, as part of our Asia Legal Team.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- JD (or equivalent) required; must be qualified to practice law in the US and/or Korea
- 8+ years of post-qualification private practice and/or in-house legal counsel experience
- Exceptional collaborative skills to work across various firm functions and capabilities, effectively challenging conventional wisdom
- Ability to operate independently, with excellent judgment
- Demonstrates ability to handle increasing volume, complexity and variety of work (e.g., expanding beyond contracts) without sacrificing quality or impact
- Builds trust-based relationships (e.g., with Associate Partners, and Partners and/or office/ Firm Functions leadership) and works directly with them /is sought after by them directly; known for expertise and ability to problem solve on most difficult contracts
- Ability to have difficult conversations when needed with respect to risk (and strong judgment on relative risk, and which battles to pick)
- Excellent organizational capabilities, including the ability to initiate tasks independently and see them through to completion
- Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment
- Ability to work in-person and travel as needed (team schedules and office locations may vary)
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and Korean, with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels
