Legal Counsel (Real Assets) (APAC)

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 site acquisition, development, power, utilities, transmission, distribution, grid connection and related infrastructure workstreams.

• The role is intended to provide dedicated legal capability across the land / power interface, which is foundational to data centre development. It will support the business from early-stage site evaluation through due diligence, transaction structuring, acquisition documentation, power procurement, connection arrangements, approvals, and completion.

• The successful candidate will work closely with the General Counsel, investment and acquisitions team, development team, power / utilities team, finance team, local business teams and external counsel across APAC.

Key responsibilities: The role will cover:

Site acquisition and real estate

• Review and negotiate NDAs, LOIs, HOAs, term sheets, exclusivity arrangements, option agreements, sale and purchase agreements, contracts of sale, leases, licences and brokerage agreements.

• Support legal due diligence on title, zoning, land use, easements, access rights, encumbrances, environmental issues, planning constraints, development approvals, utilities access and subdivision / amalgamation issues.

• Support transaction execution, including CP structure, CP satisfaction, completion / settlement, closing mechanics, funds flow, payment mechanics, completion deliverables and post-closing obligations.

• Coordinate with external real estate, planning, tax, foreign investment and local counsel.

Power, utilities and grid connection

• Support power, utility, transmission and distribution workstreams for data centre developments.

• Review and negotiate electricity design services agreements, substation construction agreements, electricity supply agreements, transmission services agreements, transmission design contracts, transmission works contracts, distribution works contracts and utility connection agreements.

• Support the business on grid connection, power availability, capacity reservation, energisation milestones, security deposits, connection obligations, termination rights, suspension rights, fees and charges, outage / interruption rights and regulatory interface.

• Support legal review of land / power interface issues, including easements, cable routes, substation land, access rights, utility corridors, step-in / assignment rights, third-party consents, landlord / utility / government interface.

External counsel and stakeholder management

• Manage external counsel on local real estate, power / regulatory, foreign investment, tax / structuring, title and land / utility matters.

• Translate local legal advice into practical commercial decision points for management.

• Work closely with the General Counsel on escalation of material legal, commercial, regulatory, or execution risk.

• Build and maintain templates, playbooks, and checklists for site acquisition, power and related real asset workstreams.

Ideal candidate profile: We are looking for a lawyer with:

• Approximately 8+ years’ PQE, although we are open to strong candidates outside that range.

• Strong real estate, infrastructure, power, utilities, development or projects background.

• Experience with land acquisition, site development, real estate due diligence, leases, easements, planning / zoning or development approvals.

• Experience with power, grid connection, transmission, distribution, electricity supply or regulated infrastructure would be highly attractive.

• Experience in data centres, renewables, infrastructure, utilities, industrial real estate, or major development projects would be preferred.

• Strong external counsel management skills across multiple jurisdictions.

• Strong ability to work with commercial, development, finance, technical and engineering stakeholders.

• Practical, commercially minded and able to give clear recommendations rather than purely technical legal advice.

• Strong drafting, negotiation and issue-spotting skills.

• Comfortable operating in a lean, fast-moving in-house environment.

Background: Candidates may come from:

• Real estate / development teams at major law firms from Singapore, UK, Australia.

• Infrastructure / energy / utilities teams.

• Data centre, renewables, logistics, industrial or real estate platforms.

• In-house legal teams at infrastructure developers, real asset funds, data centre operators or large property developers.

• Private practice candidates are acceptable, but they must show clear commercial maturity and ability to transition into an in-house environment.

• Must have law degree from either Singapore, UK, or Australia university.

Equal Opportunity Employer

STACK Infrastructure provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.