Legal - Corporate - Senior Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Tax

Specialism
Legal Services - Employment & Pensions

Management Level
Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary
We are part of the largest global legal network and have over 3,500 lawyers and legal professionals in over 90 countries (over 150 countries including immigration law and entity governance & compliance). Our Middle East Legal Network continues to rapidly grow.

Our lawyers and legal professionals work alongside the wider PwC, providing a truly joined up client facing service offering. Our team often works with Tax, Structuring, Consulting and Risk Assurance Services and other professionals from within PwC to deliver a unique, comprehensive and integrated service to our clients.

We are a thriving business across the Middle East with a regional hub in Dubai, looking to expand further.

The legal corporate practice provides a wide range of corporate services, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, corporate advisory, commercial contracts and corporate advisory to top tier clients, including family businesses. This role provides a unique opportunity to broaden your skills and be at the cutting edge of legal services. We also look to embrace technology in everything we do.

We are looking for a Senior Manager with a corporate (restructuring) background to join the team and to help support its continued expansion.

Our new Senior Manager will be fully integrated into the team and will work closely with lawyers and legal professionals of all levels. Like the rest of our team, we expect those in this role will enjoy an interesting, varied and challenging workload. It will involve liaising with our other specialist legal teams in the Middle East and with our network firms in other jurisdictions, and generally working with the team to develop top quality service to our clients.

Requirements

The following skills are required for this role:

- Strong experience in leading acquisition transactions in different industries. Leading and managing due diligence exercises. Leading the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, including sale and purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements and managing disclosure exercises. Experience of undertaking statutory mergers is beneficial.
- Strong experience in corporate restructurings, including asset transfers, for family businesses or otherwise, assisting with documents review, and restructuring advisory.
- Strong experience in a broad range of general corporate advisory and drafting of all types of commercial contracts.
- Thorough knowledge and deep understanding of the local legal framework and practical knowledge of the law. The ideal candidate will have at least 5-6 years of experience of working in the UAE.
- Experience in leading and managing teams. The ideal candidate will be keen and ready to take on a leadership role.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.