Legal Counsel

Job description / Role

The Legal Counsel is responsible for managing Azadea's legal daily operations

Key Accountabilities
- Provide comments on all types of legal documents and agreements spotting and highlighting major risks, and red flags to protect Azadea's interests and ensure required clauses are duly inserted
- Follow-up on litigation cases (provide facts to the external legal counsels, agree on strategy of the lawsuits, follow-up on hearings, reading briefs, making sure judgments are implemented and providing lessons learned accordingly if any to the various departments)
- Ensure legal deadlines and corporate governance are properly complied with hold an organized system on reminders for trademarks renewals, trade licenses, documents to be followed upon etc.
- Ensure local laws, regulations, and companies corporate documents are complied with and monitor any amendments thereto
- Coordinate and collaborate with all departments to make sure all needed approvals are obtained before signature of a document and proper decisions are taken
- Ensure a quick turnaround of legal reviews up-to signature
- Implement standard legal operating procedures, guidelines, checklists, and template documents provided by the Group Legal Counsel and propose enhancements
- Maintain updated, organized and properly signed soft and hard copies of legal documents
- Ensure, only when strictly needed, local lawyers advise is duly obtained maintaining minimal corporate legal fees without hindering on quality of the services

Requirements

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge
- Bachelor's Degree in Law; registration in at least one bar is a must
- 5-7 years of experience in a multi-country/multi-brand company or reputable claw firm with emphasis on commercial and corporate law
- Experience in local law is a must
- Fluency in English

About the Company

Azadea Group is a premier fashion and lifestyle retail company that owns and operates more than 50 leading international franchise concepts across the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe. Since its inception in 1978, the Group has grown a substantial chain of stores representing leading international brand names in fashion and accessories, food and beverage, home furnishing, sporting goods and multimedia.With over 11,000 employees, the company boasts a solid infrastructure overseeing more than 600 stores spread across 15 countries including Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.