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Ref: KP709-1854
Job description / Role
The senior legal counsel main mission is to contribute to the fulfillment of the legal departments mission which is summarised as follows:
- Guaranteeing the legal safety of all metiers and activities carried out in the client's entities (branch or subsidiary) in the territory pertaining to all of the banks core businesses
- Guaranteeing the legal safety of the transactions initialised by the bank entities with domestic clients and contributing to the legal safety of international transactions
- applying the group legal policy including the choice and use of external counsels, assessing and validating the recommendations of such external counsels
Direct Responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice to the different businesses and functions across all the core businesses and business lines
- Draft and review contracts and agreements and ensure their compliance with applicable laws and regulations as well as their protection of the banks interests
- Work with the business on the legal structuring of transactions
- Approve new products and transactions
- Collect and analyze information on legal issues and propose solutions
- Carry out punctual legal studies
- Advise the business on any legal issues with clients
- Participate in trainings and provide information to the banks departments to ensure a regular monitoring of the legal issues
- Ensure that the groups legal policies are complied with
- Comply with all of the banks policies and procedures
Requirements
Skills Required:
- A good understanding of capital markets and banking products and activities
- Good communication skills
- Good drafting skills
- Ability to work independently
- Experience in capital markets transactions
- Experience in commercial banking transactions
- Arabic skills
- Law degree
- 6 years of experience
- English language skills
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