Senior Legal Counsel Delivery

Egis Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Egis Group seeks a Senior Legal Counsel to lead backend delivery and claims issues for operations across the Middle East and South Asia. The role focuses on supporting project and commercial teams, defending variations, and protecting project margins within a full in-house team.

The candidate will review, draft, and negotiate a broad range of contracts and advise on ethics, compliance, and sanctions in multiple jurisdictions. Strong dispute experience is essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent technical legal skills required.
• Ability to triage issues and develop practical commercial solutions.
• Proven track record leading lawyers and collaborating with internal stakeholders.
• Arabic language proficiency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead disputes, claims, and formal litigation management with clients, subcontractors and other parties.
• Provide legal, commercial and strategic advice to resolve disputes.
• Draft variation and EOT claims, dispute notices, settlement agreements and legal documentation.
• Review RFP and contract documentation; advise on clauses, delivery strategies, risk and compliance.

Skills

Excellent technical legal skills

Project management

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Engineering and construction industry

Arabic language

Job description

This position is for a Senior Legal Counsel with principal responsibility for all backend delivery and claims issues for Egis operations across the Middle East and South Asia.

Although dispute experience is essential the priority for this position is supporting project and commercial teams in identifying and pursuing claims defending variations and improving/protecting project margins. As part of a full service inhouse team the candidate must be experienced and confident to review draft and negotiate a broad variety of legal contracts.

Responsibilities and Duties

Primary Role

Lead the team in the management of all formal and informal disputes claims and formal litigation with clients subcontractors and other parties including

• Working with the project and commercial teams to identify and develop large variation claims and strategies to prevent scope creep including drafting correspondence to establish entitlement and/or to prepare for future disputes;
• Provide legal commercial and strategic advice to resolve commercial and contractual disputes with clients including technical engineering advice gathering relevant evidence and manage the matter through to a successful resolution.
• Undertake legal research obtain relevant external legal advice and draft a wide range of legal documents including variation and EOT claims dispute notices settlement agreements and documentation to initiate formal legal proceedings.
• Preparing for and manage formal legal disputes including developing legal briefs collating evidence and strategies to avoid formal legal disputes.

Secondary Roles

• Review RFP and contract documentation; provide marketconsistent qualifications; negotiate clauses and contracts with clients; advise the business on different delivery strategies procurement of bonds parent company guarantees insurance; and the identification and recommendations for management of key project risks.
• Corpora legal support and advice relating to opening closing and managing legal entities throughout the Middle East and South Asia the and licensing and regulatory requirements in both regions.
• Ethics and Compliance:detailed working knowledge of relevant legal frameworks relating to bribery money laundering sanctions and relevant tools and processes to properly manage ethics and compliance risks.

Qualifications :

• Excellent technical legal skills.
• Ability to project manage multiple complex issues concurrently develop options for each situation and identify commercially practical solutions to difficult problems.
• An ability to lead and manage other lawyers and work with other relevant internal stakeholders in a way that enables the business to achieve its objectives.
• Ability to communicate complex issues in an uncomplicated way and to adapt their communication style to suit the specific audience and situation.
• The successful applicant will need to demonstrate an ability to triage issues methodically problem solve and ensure resources are used efficiently depending on the circumstances.
• Experience with the engineering and construction industries essential.
• Arabic language (written and writing) strongly preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime