Corporate Lawyer - Arab National

Job description / Role

Legal issues and Disputes Resolution in GCC/Arab Region

Leadership role
- Provide leadership and ensure efficient and effective management of staff and resources in the Legal department.

Legal Advisory
- Review and provide legal advice on various legal issues pertaining to the area of operations.
- Review ongoing cases and advice management accordingly.
- Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken
- Provide legal protection and risk management advice to management especially on contract management.
- Provide and interpret legal information, conduct training and disseminate appropriate legal requirements to staff.

Policy development
- Review and advise management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
- Review and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.

Litigation management
- Review progress of outstanding litigation and liaise with and manage external lawyers.

Regulatory compliance
- Formulate compliance check-lists to be used for the purpose of ensuring that all information required is provided accordingly
- Continuously monitor compliance with statutory obligations and advise management accordingly.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly reports for the department for executive management meetings.

Contract negotiation
- Review all contracts or any other documentation where the Company has committed itself and assess legal implications that need to be brought to the executive management’s attention.
- Prepare, review and modify contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities.
- Negotiate, review and draft documentation for business transactions and prepare and advise on the necessary checklist to be adopted to ensure information is submitted on time.

Administrative duties
- Provide continuous leadership, supervision, training and development of department staff ensuring an effective and motivated team
- Liaise with the HR department in conducting performance appraisals and ensure competency and training gaps are addressed.

Requirements

- University Qualifications: Law Graduate
- Gender Preference: Male
- Age Range: 35 max
- Nationality Preference: Arabic National
- Current Location: UAE

Candidate must have the following:
- Must be a self-starter.
- Strong aptitude for detailing in work.
- Fast learner.
- Ability to consistently meet rigid and recurring deadlines.
- Ability to interact successfully with various stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills.

About the Company

ABC Consultants is the pioneer of organised recruitment in India. Our roots in management consulting enable us to bring a unique approach to recruitment. We provide a range of talent acquisition services by leveraging our domain knowledge built over four decades.

ABC’s roots in management consulting enable us to bring a unique approach to recruitment at the middle and senior management levels .

We recruit across various industry segments for multinational corporations as well as leading Indian business houses and have helped shape the careers of over 1,65,000 professionals over our 49 year history. ABC is proud of its long standing relationships in the industry and the fact the 75% of our business is in the form of repeat business from existing clients is testimony to the quality of work we do.