General Counsel

• Provide general legal advice and support for all FCGFC daily operations.
• Review, draft, and negotiate contracts and other legal documents in the ordinary course of business.
• Provide legal support across departments on day-to-day operational questions and requests.
• Escalate matters to the GC where legal or business risk requires senior input.
• Act as assistant to the GC in the Corporate Secretary function.
• Support the preparation and safe-keeping of board and stockholders' meeting minutes and corporate records.
• Assist in preparing and filing SEC certificates, GIS, and other corporate housekeeping submissions.
• Help ensure ongoing SEC compliance, including tracking statutory deadlines.
• Provide general support to the GC on strategic, transactional, compliance, and other workstreams.
• Assist on ad hoc/special projects assigned to Legal.
• Help maintain corporate records, filings, and documentation in good order.

Legal Counsel

• Provide legal advice and support for all operational and strategic matters of First Circle
• Advise on business expansion into new markets and new products, funding, and company-wide impact decisions
• Structure and negotiate financing, partnership, M&A, and new market-entry transactions
• Advise on corporate governance, board processes, and shareholder matters
• Oversee compliance for First Circle and the broader corporate group
• Extend compliance coverage to expansion projects in other countries and industries
• Maintain the group’s regulatory compliance framework covering BSP, SEC, and other applicable regulators
• Manage regulator relationships and coordinate with external counsel
• Supervise the AML function and act as or oversee the Anti-Money Laundering Officer (AMLO)
• Own and maintain the AML policy framework across FCGFC and group entities
• Oversee AML monitoring, reporting, and regulatory coordination with the AMLC
• Act as or oversee the Data Protection Officer (DPO) function
• Handle data privacy registration, compliance, and incident response
• Ensure compliance with the Data Privacy Act and NPC requirements
• Own ad hoc and special cross-functional projects assigned to Legal
• Act as Corporate Secretary for FCGFC
• Prepare SEC certificates and filings, including General Information Sheets and secretary’s certificates
• Prepare, maintain, and safe-keep board and stockholders’ meeting minutes and corporate records
• Ensure ongoing SEC compliance, statutory deadlines, and reportorial requirements
• Oversee corporate housekeeping for non-Philippine group entities, including Singapore entities
• Build, recruit for, and lead the general legal team
• Directly supervise the Legal Counsel
• Coordinate legal and compliance functions across the CCG group, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities
• Set legal and compliance priorities, workflows, and standards across the group

• Advise RI on routine Philippine legal, regulatory, and corporate compliance requirements, including SEC requirements and licensing permits
• Provide legal advice and written opinions on operational matters, including employee-employer disputes before the Department of Labor and Employment, BIR matters, and SEC matters
• Review contracts, agreements, MOUs, leases, government documents, authorizations, and other organizational documents
• Provide notarial services during the contract period
• Provide ongoing legal advice, document review and drafting, regulatory guidance, government liaison, and notarial services as requested
• Maintain appropriate records of work undertaken and provide a summary of services with each invoice
• Notify RI and obtain written approval before undertaking approved out-of-scope services
• Support RI’s legal and regulatory standing, legal risk management, legally informed decisions, documentation, compliance, and responses to government inquiries, complaints, disputes, and potential claims
• Coordinate Philippine legal requirements with RI’s global policies, donor obligations, and organizational structure

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