Legal Director
MRL Financial
Manama, Bahrain
Ref: GP195-537
MRL Financial

The Role


The Role


The appointee will:

- Most likely be working with billion dollar infrastructure development projects
- Have had a background in either investment banking or commercial real estate
- Be a qualified lawyer from a Common Law jurisdiction (UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa or the US);
- A working knowledge of Islamic Banking Industry would be desirable

Personality:

- The successful appointee will be expected to be very much a “hands on” lawyer and at the same time will be able to demonstrate a strong commercial nature allied to a “can do” mentality.
- The appointee will need to be most comfortable working within a fluid multi-cultural environment and will embrace taking responsibility and ownership of assignments varying widely in terms of content and complexity.

Requirements


Requirements


It is anticipated that the ideal candidate will be a mid-level Corporate Lawyer ideally with solid years’ PQE (or UK equivalent) with strong academics, training and experience.

Languages:
The appointee will not require Arabic language skills.

About the Company


About the Company


Part of the MRL Group, MRL Financial works in partnership with leading global finance-based organisations to provide a complete recruitment service. Primary divisions comprise technology and operations, risk management, audit and compliance.