Legal Specialist

Overview

Project-Based Legal Specialist will be heavily involved in cases that require cross‑functional analysis between law, taxation, business structure, business strategy, corporate accounting and finance, legal documents, contracts, affiliated transactions, and implementation risk. The main outputs of this role are Legal Memo, Legal Opinion, and Legal Research Paper, which will be used as the basis for Tax Point’s recommendations to clients.

Responsibilities

1. Prepare Legal Memo for strategic client cases

   Prepare Legal Memos on specific legal issues arising in client projects, including factual background, key legal issues, relevant regulations, risk analysis, preliminary conclusions, and practical recommendations for both internal teams and clients.

2. Conduct Legal Research & Analysis

   Conduct legal research on issues relevant to client cases, including corporate law, contract law, non‑profit/foundation law, cooperatives, SMEs, affiliated transactions, beneficial ownership, tax planning, corporate tax, VAT, and sector‑specific regulations.

3. Prepare Legal Research Paper

   Prepare comprehensive Legal Research Papers for legal issues that require deeper analysis, including regulatory review, legal interpretation, market practice benchmarking, implementation risk, and implications for the client’s business structure or transaction model.

4. Conduct Legal Review on client documents

   Perform Legal Review of client documents such as deeds of establishment/amendment, business identification numbers, tax identification numbers, cooperation agreements, supplier contracts, service agreements, management agreements, shareholder agreements, intercompany agreements, licensing documents, and other supporting transaction documents.

5. Prepare Legal Opinion on critical assumptions

   Prepare Legal Opinions on critical assumptions in tax planning or business structuring, such as transaction validity, contract reasonableness, nominee risk, use of specific legal entities, affiliated transactions, economic benefit distribution, and legal limitations of a proposed structure.

6. Identify required legal documents for each case

   Prepare a list of required legal documents for each project, including corporate documents, licensing documents, tax documents, contractual documents, transaction documents, ownership documents, and documents supporting the relationship between related parties.

7. Draft confirmatory questions for legal and business clarification

   Prepare clarification questions for clients to confirm legal facts, ownership structure, affiliated relationships, transaction flow, parties receiving economic benefits, basis of payment, and commercial substance of a transaction.

8. Review contract drafting and commercial substance

   Review draft contracts or agreements to ensure that rights, obligations, scope of work, fees, payment terms, representations and warranties, limitation of liability, dispute resolution, and risk clauses are clearly structured and legally defensible.

9. Assess legal risk in tax planning structures

   Identify legal risks within tax planning structures, including misuse of legal entities, lack of economic substance, conflict of interest, hidden affiliations, nominee risk, regulatory non‑compliance, reputational risk, and potential disputes with authorities.

10. Support corporate tax and VAT analysis from a legal perspective

    Support the tax team in assessing the legal basis of transactions that may affect corporate tax and VAT, including whether a payment should be classified as a service fee, management fee, reimbursement, revenue sharing, purchase of goods, lease, donation, grant, capital injection, or other transaction type.

11. Review the legal feasibility of business structure recommendations

    Provide a second‑layer legal review of Tax Point’s proposed business structures to ensure that the strategy is not only tax efficient, but also legally sound, properly documented, and feasible to implement.

12. Prepare legal risk management matrix

    Prepare legal risk matrices covering key issues, regulatory basis, potential impact, likelihood, severity, defensibility position, and recommended mitigation actions for each structure or transaction being reviewed.

13. Support the preparation of final reports and legal sections

    Support the preparation of legal sections in final reports, executive summaries, legal memos, legal opinions, and strategic presentations so that complex legal issues can be communicated clearly, practically, and effectively to client management.

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s degree or final‑year student in Law, preferably with an interest in corporate law, contract law, tax law, business law, or regulatory research.
2. Strong capability in legal research, legal analysis, legal writing, document review, and legal reasoning.
3. Able to prepare practical legal deliverables, including Legal Memo, Legal Review, Legal Opinion, Legal Research Paper, Document Request List, Confirmatory Questions, Contract Review Summary, and Legal Risk Matrix.
4. Good understanding of corporate law, contract law, business entities, affiliated transactions, and regulatory compliance.
5. Has interest or basic understanding in corporate tax, VAT, tax planning, accounting, finance, and business structuring.
6. Able to work closely with teams that heavily deal with accounting, finance, taxation, business modelling, and regulatory compliance.
7. Able to explain legal concepts clearly to non‑legal professionals, especially tax consultants, accountants, finance analysts, and business advisors.
8. Comfortable working with highly analytical, detail‑oriented, and technical team members who like to challenge assumptions and discuss issues deeply.
9. Able to bridge communication gaps between legal, tax, accounting, and finance perspectives with maturity, clarity, and constructive communication.
10. Able to ask precise questions, clarify incomplete facts, challenge weak assumptions, and communicate disagreement professionally.
11. Able to use modern AI tools for legal research, legal drafting, document review, contract analysis, regulatory mapping, issue spotting, and risk structuring.
12. Understands human–AI collaboration, including how to use AI to accelerate research, drafting, issue spotting, and risk mapping while still verifying legal sources, checking factual assumptions, and applying professional judgment.
13. Aware of AI limitations, including hallucination, outdated references, weak interpretation, overgeneralization, and source reliability issues.
14. Able to write clearly and structurally in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.
15. Detail‑oriented, intellectually curious, healthily skeptical, and comfortable working with complex and ambiguous cases.