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Senior legal counsel

09/09/2024
PermanentUnited Arab EmiratesOn site
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Job description

The Senior Legal Counsel provides legal counseling, guidance, and support to business on all Middle East matters and projects, notably:

  • Offering strategic counsel to regional management and other stakeholders.
  • Delivering legal support in areas that facilitates the company’s compliance with all applicable international and domestic laws, rules and regulation
  • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, including complex and multi-jurisdictional agreements, and developing contract strategies.
  • Assisting with customer claim management, warranty, and product liability matters.
  • Managing and coordinating legal disputes.
  • Conducting internal compliance investigations.
  • Identifying, reporting, monitoring, and mitigating legal and compliance risks.
  • Monitoring and communicating relevant legal and regulatory developments and best practices within the organization.
  • Designing and delivering legal and compliance training programs.
  • Developing and implementing internal policies and procedures.
  • Managing corporate housekeeping for subsidiaries in the Middle-East region.
  • Instructing and overseeing external legal counsel.
  • Liaising with authorities.
  • Providing legal support for group functions, as well as global and cross-regional projects and working groups.
  • Supporting the regional Legal & Compliance team.
Profile description
  • Master’s degree in business law
  • Minimum 10 years of relevant experience,
  • Fluency in English and Arabic
  • Strong working knowledge of regulations in Middle East
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver practical guidance clearly and concisely.
  • Acting as a key business partner with problem-solving mindset.
  • Ability to assess legal risks and propose viable solutions legally and commercially.
  • Highly proactive and organized, while managing multiple and complex projects.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, flexible and pragmatic.
  • Good team spirit and collaboration skills.
Number of open positions:
1 position
Job location:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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