Ref: OP555-729

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

- Provide strategic and pragmatic legal advice to senior management
- Anticipate, identify, manage, and proactively mitigate legal / legal-commercial risks across the Group
- Review, draft and negotiate contracts with the Companies' partners, suppliers, clients, target investors and lenders
- Involve in merger and acquisition and negotiate the contracts to complete the transaction
- Provide legal support in relation to all company law matters including the incorporation of companies, reviewing and/or drafting articles of association/by-laws as well as shareholder agreements and reviewing and/or drafting shareholder/board resolutions
- Providing legal support in relation to all intellectual property matters
- Provide an assistance with legal matters relating to employees and employment
- Coordinate with external counsel where required
- Lead the initiative of setting up of a good corporate governance framework for the company

Requirements

- Ready to work hands-on basis to draft legal contract and other matter with less reliant on external counsel
- Focused, target-oriented and time-bound way of operating. Ability to deliver results
- Ability to take full responsibility
- Manage relationships and create associations of trust with internal and external stakeholders
- Solid commercial understanding
- Comfortable working in multi-cultural environment
- Confidentiality and high professional ethics

About the Company

Ignite Search & Selection is a leading Recruitment Agency in the Middle East. Ignite's team of specialist recruiters now works across a range of sectors including Legal, Digital/Technology, Retail/FMCG, Construction and Engineering.

We pride ourselves on given both clients and candidates expert market knowledge in our chosen sectors. We value getting a detailed understanding of our clients and candidates expectations to find the perfect fit for all parties.

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Legal Counsel salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 22,500

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