Legal Counsel - Energy Trading

Tura Executive; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy trading company is seeking a proactive Legal Counsel to manage legal and compliance functions. This role involves providing strategic legal advice, overseeing contracts, and ensuring compliance across various business areas, supporting the company's global growth.

Qualifications

• 3–7+ years PQE as a corporate lawyer, ideally from a top international law firm.
• Secondment or in-house experience within a fast-paced or multinational environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Lead legal support for new market entry and corporate restructuring.
• Manage compliance communications and support trade finance-related compliance.

Skills

Problem Solver

Interpersonal Savvy

Perseverant

Strategic Thinker

Education

PQE as a corporate lawyer

Job description

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Join a leading energy trading company on a mission to accelerate the global path toward the green transition. Our client brings together top international talent to reinvent how energy flows through global markets.

Your Role :

Our client is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Legal Counsel to oversee and manage the company’s legal and compliance functions. In this role, you will engage across a broad range of business areas, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, managing contractual matters, supporting corporate governance, and guiding the business through strategic expansion and regulatory change.

This position is pivotal to driving operational excellence, mitigating risk, and supporting the company’s global growth. You will provide commercially astute, strategic legal advice, working on complex and often high-impact matters that shape the evolution of the business.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Advisory & Contracting

• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements.
• Provide legal input on transaction structures in collaboration with business and operations teams.
• Manage contract execution, amendments, and obligations.
• Oversee DocuSign processes and electronic signature systems.
• Handle NDAs and manage the legal inbox and routine legal inquiries.

Corporate Governance

• Draft and coordinate board resolutions and corporate filings.
• Manage corporate changes and reporting to relevant authorities.
• Serve as secretary for executive risk committee meetings.
• Develop and implement company-wide legal and operational policies.

Strategic Expansion & Projects

• Lead legal support for new market entry, international expansions, and entity formations.
• Coordinate corporate restructuring efforts.
• Engage, manage, and collaborate with external legal counsel as required.

Employment Law & HR Support

• Draft and review employment contracts and recruitment terms.
• Advise on terminations and other employment-related legal matters.

Transactional Support

• Support M&A, investment, and internal initiatives with legal due diligence and documentation.

Compliance & Regulatory

• Lead end-to-end Know-Your-Customer (KYC) processes.
• Conduct and manage background checks and escalate findings appropriately.
• Manage compliance communications and support trade finance-related compliance.
• Stay abreast of evolving regulatory regimes (e.g., MiFID, REMIT II).
• Support teams with ongoing regulatory obligations.
• Assist with IP registration, brand protection, and related legal processes.

Who You Are?

• Problem Solver – Uses logic and insight to resolve complex issues with practical, effective solutions.
• Interpersonal Savvy – Builds strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Perseverant – Shows tenacity and resilience in pushing through obstacles and challenges.
• Comfortable With Ambiguity – Adapts fluidly to change and can act decisively with incomplete information.
• Strategic Thinker – Able to navigate complex legal and business landscapes with sound judgment.

Requirements

• 3–7+ years PQE as a corporate lawyer, ideally from a top international law firm.
• Secondment or in-house experience within a fast-paced or multinational environment is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to simplify legal language for commercial teams.
• Responsive, diligent, and comfortable working autonomously and collaboratively.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex legal transactions and projects.
• Proficient in identifying legal risks and delivering commercially viable solutions.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Legal

Oil and Gas

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