Legal Counsel MEA

Job description / Role

As Legal Counsel and a member of the Middle East & Africa Legal team, reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel, ME&A, you will provide legal support in the following areas: 1) negotiation of commercial contracts, with clients, partners, suppliers and other third parties; 2) management of the resolution of disputes, through formal legal proceedings where necessary, utilising the support of external counsel as appropriate; and 3) corporate transactions including acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures. You may also from time to time be required to support company secretarial activities in the region.

Responsibilities

- Prepare, negotiate and revise contracts and other relevant legal documentation
- Provide legal advice and contribute to analyses of commercial issues
- Participate in the negotiations between the SNC-Lavalin entities and its clients, partners and other third parties
- Participate in the structuring, drafting, negotiation and implementation of corporate transactions including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures
- Participate in the preparation of the legal documentation related to the day to day management of the various operating entities
- Interpret laws, decrees and any other documents of a legal nature, ensuring that the interests of the Company are adequately protected
- Provide legal advice and contribute to analyses relating to the corporate and commercial transactions
- Provide legal advice and contribute to analyses relating to dispute resolution
- Provide legal advice and contribute to analyses relating to corporate governance issues
- Work closely with internal clients in order to maximize negotiations and minimize corporate risk
- Instruct and manage external counsel, in accordance with applicable group procedures

Requirements

- Minimum 4 years relevant experience
- Member of a Bar Association or equivalent professional body for solicitors/barristers or attorneys for at least 4 years;
- Preferably currently located in the MEA region(the location of the role is flexible within the region between the UAE and KSA, at the candidate's choice);
- Relevant experience in commercial law;
- English is a requisite and bilingualism (English / French) is an asset;
- Availability for occasional trips within and outside the region
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, in a multidisciplinary work environment
- Developed business sense
- Methodical and detail oriented
- A collaborative, good communicator with a practical, flexible and dynamic approach


SNC Lavalin's Atkins business is one of the largest multidisciplinary, multi sector engineering design consultancies in the world and is part of the SNC Lavalin Group.

As one of the world's most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies with a leading track record in the defence sector, Atkins are ideally placed to respond to this market. We have a broad establishment and proud, 50 year history throughout the Middle East region.

We provide a full range of design, engineering and project management services for buildings, transportation and other infrastructure programmes.

Atkins in the Middle East now employs around 2,000 staff serving Gulf clients across all market sectors from offices in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, and Sharjah.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting - and then developing - brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It's precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, we also have an extensive depth of geographic exposure across 50 countries and the breadth of 53,000 experts. As one of the largest engineering consultants, we have access to 17,000 staff in the Middle East making us one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies in the region.

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).