Corporate Counsel

1 week ago

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Cisco Systems Full time
Have you always wanted to be part of a global smart legal team continuously on the edge of enabling technological innovation?


Cisco, the world's leading networking, communications, and security company, is on a mission to empower an inclusive future for everyone.

We're proud to be consistently recognized as one of the best workplaces in the world by Fortune and Great Place To Work, and we are looking for exceptional people to join our legal team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cisco EMEA legal team.

We are looking for a committed, creative-thinking Corporate Counsel to join our team supporting Cisco's business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Turkey and North Africa and Levant (NAL).


What your responsibilities include:

  • Act as a trusted legal advisor to the business related to our enterprise and public sector business in KSA, Turkey and NAL.
  • Give accurate, timely advice to Cisco senior management and other functions on specific contractual provisions and general legal matters coming to your attention with an understanding of Cisco's overall strategy.
  • Draft, review, revise, and negotiate legal agreements covering the Cisco business (sales and licensing agreements, channel partner/pricing letters, RFP/RFIs, nondisclosure agreements, IP and DP agreements, services agreements, etc.) to enable customer success.
  • Manage legal requests from multiple internal clients, with the ability to prioritize key transactions.
  • Adept at quickly making sound legal judgments to facilitate nimble business execution.
  • Summarize and communicate legal issues in plainEnglish.
  • Respond promptly to requests from internal clients.
  • Develop close working relationships with the sales, engineering, operations, finance, and legal teams bringing our products to market, as well as a deep understanding of our gotomarket strategies, business processes, and product offerings.
  • Support, coordinate and secure sales contract negotiations with businesscentric, flexible attitude and collaborative spirit.
  • Engage in legal initiatives and crossfunctional projects.
  • Proactively provide and support training.

Who You'll Work With


The EMEA Legal team is a dynamic, international, smart, and friendly team that combines a collaborative environment with the diverse projects and innovative technology of a global corporation.

Cisco legal managers are open-minded and experienced - they support independent, flexible work practices. The EMEA Legal team promotes cultural differences and personal development based on trust and high ethical standards.


The Cisco EMEA Legal team highly emphasizes collaboration and supports cross-functional activities and interests allowing for both professional and personal growth.

Cisco also gives its employees the unique opportunity to participate in Giving Back projects contributing to Cisco's well-respected ethics of true sharing and caring.

Your dedication matters


The business clients trust the EMEA Legal team to act as agents for positive change and to conduct business with transparency and integrity.


Who You Are

Your Minimum Qualifications:

  • You are admitted as a lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction in EMEA.
  • You have at least 35 years of commercial and corporate law experience obtained at a top law firm practice, or multinational corporate legal department.
  • You have excellent written/drafting and verbal skills in English and Arabic; fluency in other European languages will be considered a plus.

Your Professional Experience:

  • Excellent technology contract negotiation and drafting skills, with the ability to discuss complex issues in a clear and simple manner both in writing and orally.
  • Deep knowledge of applicable law.
  • Focused attention to detail and ability to work independently.
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and desire to make legal processes more efficient.
  • Excellent business judgment, advocating for acceptable legal risk to enable business outcomes.
  • Customer and clientcentric approach, demonstrating respect and a positive attitude under all circumstances.
  • Experience with providing legal advice across a multijurisdictional region in EMEA.
  • Leadership skills, wanting to contribute to a team culture focused on shared success.
  • Experience and familiarity with data privacy such as GDPR, and other privacy laws, as well as asaservice offerings. CIPP/E certification is a plus.
  • Knowledge of and experience with technology contract issues including intellectual property, software licensing, managed services, cloud, data protection, including negotiating GDPR agreements, and security.
  • Experience handling competition and antitrust legal issues in the context of the operations of a multinational corporation.
  • Experience in dealing and contracting with public/staterun entities.

Your general skills:

  • Ability to provide support under pressure and finalize deals to tight deadlines.
  • Be able to advise on dynamic situations re

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