Maritime Legal Counsel

3 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates ES Group LLC Full time

As a critical member of legal team, managing and advising on the company's legal affairs, including SNP [ship/ sale purchase], charter party contracts and disputes, insurance claims, vendor agreements, ship financing and other commercial matters with Flag, Class and Underwriters.
- Provide sound legal advice to the various SNP, Operations, Chartering and Finance departments, including general corporate and commercial advisory for the company.
- Litigation management of contentious disputes with an external panel of legal counsels and law firms in all major international shipping markets for ongoing and developing arbitration/court proceedings matters.
- Familiar with UAE labour laws and analysing employee contracts for any amends if required.
- Compliance and regulatory due diligence and sanctions advice on counterparties, vessels and corporate authorities. Identify, analyze and assess (contractual and other) legal and compliance risks.
- Attend and speak at international conferences/seminars/meetings relevant to legal and compliance matters.

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications**:

- Minimum L.L.B or equivalent bachelor's degree in law.
- L.L.M in Maritime law / Commercial law preferred.
- Minimum Six years post-qualification experience working at maritime law firms with a proven record of resolving disputes successfully.
- Past employment as an in-house legal counsel for a ship-owning group.
- Competent IT user capable of working across multiple IT systems (MS Office + In house systems).

**Skills**:

- Excellent command of verbal and written English
- Extremely organized, self-disciplined, self-motivated, fiercely persuasive, a strong negotiator with a keen eye for details (perfection), thoroughness of work, and an intense desire to win.
- Ability to take a commercial approach to legal matters and work
- A dynamic and results oriented individual
- High sense of initiative, professionalism and responsibility
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Excellent command of the written and spoken English language

**Benefits**:

- Competitive salary as per market standards

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From AED15,000.00 per month

**Experience**:

- martime law: 4 years (required)

Application Deadline: 30/06/2024


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