Job description / Role
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- You will handle legal transactions, partnerships and projects across various regions in order to ensure that the transactions comply with UAE/KSA laws and regulations.
- You will be involved with international cross border M&A, joint ventures, and commercial matters.
- Work on transactional matters, including coordination of legal due diligence projects, drafting of initial deal documentation including assistance with the drafting of key transaction documents and assistance with the overall deal management.
- You will be responsible for business acquisitions and disposals at a regional, national, and international level.
- Responsible for evaluating new business partnerships with vendors and subcontractors along with examining legal issues related to new products and services.
- Guide management on regulatory and compliance issues to ensure compliance with legal regulations.
- Work closely with colleagues on regulatory matters and project launches in different jurisdictions throughout the MEA region.
- Advise our teams about relevant legal contexts, issues and risks, complex agreement structures, approval processes, and company policies and procedures.
- Experience with content licensing and complex commercial distribution transactions, including but not limited to telcos partnership, promotion agreements, etc.
- Coordinate with cross-functional colleagues including management, procurement, finance, strategy, HR.
- To deal with content production, content licensing agreements.
- Review the legal terms of contracts.
- Negotiate with external third parties.
- Review the contracts and provide the feedback to the Group General Counsel, when needed.
- Proactively advise on general legal/contractual implications on the business of commercial decisions.
- Deal with all forms of media and the rights that belong to the creator of the idea for that particular media.
- Administer corporate transactions and structure them so that corporations function within the boundaries of the law.
- Draft standard clauses (i.e. -Warranties, Indemnities, Force Majeure, Waiver) which are commonly used in all kinds of draft agreements.
- Maintain and update the litigation report.
Requirements
Requirements
- 3-5 years PQE.
- Bachelor's Degree in law from a reputable university along with Bar Admission.
- Bilingual Arabic/English language verbally and written is highly desirable for this role.
- Extensive experience in M&A, Tax Law, JV deals.
- Negotiating and drafting media and commercial transactions, such as licensing agreements, production agreements is desirable.
- Experience in media, content, entertainment, technology transactions.
- Ability to develop creative and pragmatic solutions to novel legal questions.
- Great legal and business judgment especially in ambiguous situations.
- High degree of independence, initiative and decisiveness.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to act as business partner.
- Legal Management Systems.
- Legal risk assessment.
- Contract administration system.
- Media Laws.
- Consumer Laws.
Unfortunately, due to the high number of responses we receive we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants. If you have not been contacted within 5-7 days, please assume that at this stage your application has been unsuccessful.
About the Company
MBC GROUP is the largest media company in the Middle East & North Africa region that enriches people’s lives through information, interaction and entertainment. In 2002, nearly a decade after the launch of MBC1 in London, in 1991, MBC GROUP moved its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates.
Today, MBC GROUP includes over 17 leading TV channels: MBC1 (general family entertainment); MBC2 & MBC MAX (24-hour western movies); MBC3 (children’s edutainment with a mix of both local productions and western acquisitions); MBC4 (entertainment for young families with a female-focus); MBC ACTION (an indigenous adrenaline-packed channel targeting young males with local and homegrown productions); MBC VARIETY (Western films and general entertainment with uninterrupted broadcasting); MBC DRAMA (24/7 Arabic drama) & MBC+ DRAMA (a joint pay-TV channel between MBC and OSN); MBC PERSIA (general family entertainment dubbed and subtitled in Farsi); WANASAH (24-hour Arabic music channel); MBC MASR & MBC MASR2 (general family entertainment geared towards the Egyptian family); MBC BOLLYWOOD (delivering the freshest in Bollywood content geared towards the region via an Arabized interface); MBC USA (on “Dish Network” in the US); MBC IRAQ (a premium channel aimed at the entire Iraqi family), MBC5 (new satellite channel dedicated to the Maghreb); all of them benefit from MBC STUDIOS which produces the region’s most compelling premium content for cinema, television and on-demand platforms. MBC GROUP also includes two FM radio stations: MBC FM (Gulf music) and Panorama FM (contemporary Arabic hit music).
Furthermore, part of MBC GROUP is Shahid and its premium subscription-based service Shahid VIP, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform, home to highly rated original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive movies and premieres, as well as the top watched live Arab TV channels.