Legal Advisor

Job description / Role

Company: Investment Banking Institution

Position Objective:
To provide internal legal services that protects the company’s operations from commercial and legal risks.

Duties & Responsibilities
• Collaborate with various Lines of Businesses and assist in developing business contracts, interpretation of laws, rulings, and regulations governing the Company activities.
• Provide support in advising from a legal perspective on business transactions.
• Prepare legal documents such as briefs, pleadings, appeals, contracts, initial and amended articles of incorporations, buy-sell agreements, and so forth.
• Prepare/Review documentation and other legal contracts for ensuring that the company’s legal rights are adequately protected, in all activities undertaken by the Bank.
• Follow up on litigation and dispute cases; take necessary action(s), prepare memorandums and pursue the implementation of the decision and ruling in this respect.
• Formulate legal strategies for the legal cases filed by/against the bank to ensure that the Bank’s interest is effectively safeguarded and legal obligations are carried out effectively.
• Liaise with external lawyers to implement the strategies, and ensure adequate monitoring/follow up;
• Prepare memorandums, circulars and external letters as required.
• Provide and recommend accurate legal advice/opinion to the Management and Staff to ensure that decision making is legally correct and that company’s interest are protected.
• Maintain an awareness of developments in the legal field which might affect the company and prepare reports on relevant matters for consideration by management.
• Assist the various subsidiaries with Legal issues governing these entities.
• Represent the company at meetings with external bodies to ensure that legal aspects of any decisions are fully considered.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in a similar field (i.e. Financial Services, Banking, Investment, etc.).
• Must have KSA experience, International experience within multinational companies is a plus.
• Sound understanding of commercial law, labour law and legislative drafting etc.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Law, Postgraduate degree is a plus.
• Languages: Bilingual speaker with fluent Arabic and English written and spoken.

Interpersonal Skills:
• Hard worker, committed & dedicated, rigorous, dynamic and well organised.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage various deadlines.
• Ability to interact, collaborate and negotiate with all levels and influence others.

About the Company

Human Capital House was set up in the year 2013 with a vision to be a progressive talent acquisition partner for organizations within the local and regional market in the Middle East.

As international markets get ever demanding, corporations globally are presented with the challenges of attracting the right talent. Human capital retention and recruitment remain a critical factor to the success of any company. Strategic decision to recruit the right talent is a key issue to organization as wrong candidate selection can potentially be disastrous to their efficiency.

The critical aspect of choosing the right individual with the apt experience and knowledge becomes more crucial as he/she would need to share the ambitions of the employer, while fitting in to the new culture. Human Capital House has both the experience and expertise to help its clients make the right choice of selection. From understanding client requirements, through identifying and assessing the candidates, our systematic approach strives to ensure successful executive recruitment.