Legal Counsel - Dubai -

Legal Route - Global Legal Recruitment; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal recruitment agency in the United Arab Emirates seeks an experienced Legal Counsel to support legal and compliance functions. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience in contract drafting and negotiation, with strong commercial understanding and project management skills. Fluency in English is mandatory; French is a plus. Salary is 27k AED per month.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in legal roles.
• Strong experience in drafting and negotiating contracts.
• Membership in a European and/or North American Bar association is required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with legal and compliance responsibilities.
• Review and draft commercial contracts.
• Support data privacy compliance activities.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation skills

Commercial understanding

Project management

Strong communication skills

Team player

Education

Bachelor degree in Law

Job description

We are currently working with a digital/financial platform currently to hire a Legal Counsel to report into the Regional Head of Legal & Compliance MEA

Scope and Purpose

To support the Legal Manager with a number of legal, compliance, data-privacy and administrative duties

Key Result Areas & Responsibilities:

Legal Responsibilities

• Working with key areas of the business, assist with reviewing/drafting/amending a range of commercial/business contracts (customers, suppliers and services providers), offer/proposal, tender review and bid application. Perform legal research and provide general support to Legal Manager and various departments, such as but not limited to HR related matters, customer contract interpretation/implementation, inter-company agreements, corporate matters. Manage a variety of side projects and topics.

Compliance Responsibilities

• Assisting the Legal Manager in the day to day activities in various aspects of Compliance, such as but not limited to due diligence screening of business partners, managing the sales partner application and agreements, drafting and amending agency and distributor agreements, ensuring all guidelines and policies are applied in the day to day business (procurement, gift & invitation, export control).

Data Privacy Responsibilities

• Assisting the Legal Manager in the day to day activities in various aspects of Data privacy, such as but not limited to deletion process and organization's record of processing activities (RoPA), in accordance with the GDPR

Job Requirements/Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor degree in Law (strong academic credentials LLL and/or LLB) LLM preferred but not mandatory
• Member of a European and/or North American Bar association
• Must have minimum 4+ years of experience
• Strong and lengthy experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts
• Strong negotiation skills and knowledge of legal concepts
• Profound commercial and contractual understanding with focus on exceptional client service
• Good project management experience and skills (planning, reporting , processes)
• Strong communication skills and capability in managing workload
• Excellent team player with good soft skills for use in cross functional and international teams
• Expertise in negotiation techniques, contract law, contract drafting and negotiation, software licensing agreement
• Strong multi-tasking skills and detail oriented
• Ability to work with challenging individuals/organizations
• English mandatory and French preferred but not mandatory

Salary level is 27k AED all in per month