Senior Legal Counsel Delivery

Egis Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm based in Dubai is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel responsible for managing disputes and claims across projects in the Middle East and South Asia. The role requires at least 10 years of experience, excellent technical legal skills, and the ability to communicate complex issues clearly. The candidate must also be proficient in Arabic and have relevant experience in the engineering and construction sectors. This is a full-time position and requires on-site attendance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
• Strong technical legal skills necessary for contract negotiation and dispute resolution.
• Experience in working within construction and engineering sectors.

Responsibilities

• Manage formal and informal disputes and claims across projects.
• Provide legal and strategic advice to resolve commercial disputes.
• Review RFP and contract documentation ensuring compliance and effectiveness.

Skills

Excellent technical legal skills

Project management of multiple complex issues

Leadership and team management

Effective communication of complex issues

Ability to triage and problem solve

Experience in engineering and construction industries

Proficiency in Arabic

Job description

Responsibilities and Duties

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.

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