Corporate Lawyer

Your responsibilities:

Corporate and Legal Agreements: 

Drafting and reviewing corporate documents including MOAs and AOAs and restructuring of companies, Draft, negotiate, interpret and review a wide range of legal documents & commercial agreements and advising on all contractual matters Assembly Resolutions, Shareholders Agreements, Business/Assets/Shares Purchase Agreements, Exclusive & Non-Exclusive Distribution/Commercial Agents Agreements, JVs, real estate and other various legal instruments) and ensuring that the legal and other contractual documents are effectively drafted, reviewed, interpreted, and vetted.

Operations Support

Provide adequate support in identifying, assessing and providing reasonable solutions against legal risk involved in the different various business agreements in connection with the Group (the holding company and its subsidiaries) operation in different jurisdictions.

Company Formation

Advice on all aspects of corporate company’s formation/winding up and corporate ownership restructures that are appropriate to the Group multi-jurisdictional business activities and commercial needs within the UAE.

Compliance

Ensure appropriate corporate governance and compliance structure are put in place and providing legal framework on policies of various departments. Advising on various corporate governance matters (meetings convention, quorum, vote eligibility, proxy etc.).

Legal Trends

Provide the Group with accurate and creative advice on various aspects of the laws and regulations applicable in the UAE, or in the jurisdictions where the Group has activities, governmental regulations and rules and business transaction and keeping abreast of all new and proposed legislation in the relevant jurisdiction.

Process Improvement

Support the management in legal process improvement initiatives

Communications

Assist in communicating with the business units all relevant ICT standards and policies and implementing and maintaining a Quality Management System

Management Support

Provide legal opinions and proposes solutions that allow the senior management to take proper decisions.

Ad-Hoc Reporting

Prepare analysis and ad-hoc reports to the Chief Legal Officer and stakeholders highlighting Legal performance.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Bachelor/Master Education in Law.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal (Arabic speaker is a must).
• 7 Years’ experience in similar role and industry/group of companies.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience working within a Law Firm/ Group of Companies
• Deep understanding UAE law and application to the business.
• Sound knowledge of company structuring.
• Well versed in using MS Office Applications.