Legal Counsel - Arabic Speaker (m/f/d)

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment and Contract Staffing Agency; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment and Contract Staffing Agency is looking for an Arabic-speaking Legal Counsel in Dubai. The role requires a law degree with 5+ years in commercial practice, preferably within technology, IT, telecommunications, cloud, cybersecurity or infrastructure, and strong contract drafting and negotiation skills.

Fluency in Arabic is essential. Independence and stakeholder management are key.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) with 5+ years in commercial legal practice.
• Experience in technology, IT, telecom, cloud, cybersecurity or infrastructure sectors preferred.
• Fluency in Arabic is required.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Strong communication and business partnering skills.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts and technology agreements.
• Support multinational operations and cross-border transactions.
• Ensure compliance with UAE commercial and corporate laws.
• Provide business-friendly legal advice to internal teams and partners.

Skills

Arabic fluency

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Commercial legal experience

Education

LLB (Bachelor of Laws)

Postgraduate qualification preferred

Job description

Legal Counsel - Arabic Speaker (m/f/d)

Organising Institution / Firm

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment and Contract Staffing Agency

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Bachelor's Degree in Law (LLB); postgraduate qualification preferred. Minimum 5 years' experience in commercial legal practice, preferably in technology, IT, telecommunications, cloud, cybersecurity, or infrastructure sectors. Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills. Experience supporting multinational operations and cross-border transactions. Knowledge of UAE commercial and corporate laws. Fluency in Arabic (implied by job title). Ability to work independently and manage multiple stakeholders. Strong communication and business partnering skills. Team-oriented mindset with collaborative approach.

Full-time Job

Breaking Into UAE In-House Legal: Why This IT Manufacturing Role Signals a Market Shift

The legal recruitment landscape in the United Arab Emirates is undergoing a quiet transformation. While the headlines focus on Big Law lateral moves and DIFC court appointments, a more significant trend is accelerating beneath the surface: the aggressive in-housing of legal functions by technology and manufacturing conglomerates. The Legal Counsel - Arabic Speaker role currently advertised by Halian on behalf of a leading IT manufacturing client in Dubai is not merely another vacancy—it is a case study in what the modern Gulf legal market actually values in 2024.

Insight: Over 200 applications within 24 hours for a mid-senior in-house role signals extreme candidate liquidity. The differentiator will not be your LLB grade—it will be your ability to demonstrate commercial fluency in Arabic-language contract negotiation within a tech manufacturing context.

The Hidden Client Profile: Decoding "leading IT manufacturing"

Halian's posting deliberately anonymizes the end client, described only as a "leading IT manufacturing company in the UAE." For the strategic applicant, this opacity is an invitation to demonstrate research capability. The UAE's IT manufacturing sector clusters around three ecosystems: Dubai Internet City free zone entities, Abu Dhabi's Hub71 and ADGM technology licensees, and the expanding industrial zones in Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah where hardware assembly meets sovereign cloud initiatives.

The responsibility matrix—cloud and technology service agreements, reseller agreements, government tenders, intellectual property protection for hardware and trade secrets—maps precisely to a company operating at the intersection of hardware supply chains, sovereign data compliance, and public sector procurement. This suggests a client likely engaged in:

• Government and semi-government digital transformation contracts (Federal entities, Smart Dubai, ADDA)
• Telecommunications infrastructure rollouts (5G, fiber, edge computing)
• Data localization and cybersecurity compliance mandates (UAE Data Protection Law, DESC, NESA/ISA standards)
• Cross-border supply chain agreements with OEMs in East Asia, Europe,