Paralegal - Oil & Gas

Job description / Role

Providing Legal & Administrative related support to different Department, PL, and business development and operations management. You will be involved in offering valuable Paralegal Support, conducting legal and factual research, drafting contracts and legal agreements, monitoring regulations, proof reading legal documents, maintaining statutory books and assisting with any legal translation.

Reports to: CEO

Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist with organization, scheduling and execution of corporate governance.
- Vendors and customers contract review, assisting procurement and business development teams.
- Assisting the management in other disputes with creditors, tax authorities and regulators.
- Control and maintain corporate structure documents, manage documentation for the equity and debt arrangements with the shareholders, manage external corporate service providers in all the jurisdictions in which legal entities are incorporated or branched. Corporate structure is due to be renewed with possibility of a restructuring to remove unnecessary legal entities.
- Legal advice to the management as required.
- Assemble and store board packs, attend board meetings (approx. once every 6 weeks) and prepare minutes.
- Actively involved in legal search and drafting summaries of new regulations, precedents and performing a high level review of contracts on a need basis.
- Keeping abreast of new laws in the UAE and other jurisdictions as per business needs. 
- Assist in the preparation of reports and presentations to management, coordination of meetings and communications with clients
- Assist in ensuring the legal records, including minute books, and work product are effectively organized
- Rendering legal advice on a variety of matters to different departments including following up and managing court cases.
- Special projects as needed and assigned
- Perform administrative duties as needed and assigned

Requirements

Education and Training:
- Paralegal certificate or equivalent experience, BS preferred
- Proficient computer skills in MS office software
- Fluent in spoken and written English/Any additional language would be considered as an advantage

Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years as a paralegal.
- Working experience in an International and diverse cultural environment preferably Oil & Gas.

Personal Attributes:
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, independently, as well as collaboratively, and operating under tight deadlines with a broad range of responsibilities
- Self-starter with ability to prioritize tasks
- Creative and practical problem-solver
- Exceptional communications, organization, listening and writing skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively across the global legal organization, and with all levels of management, customers and external parties
- Highly detail-oriented, resourceful and flexible

About the Company

RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

What we do:

Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved.