Risk Lawyer

3 weeks ago

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Clyde&Co Full time

Job Title

- Risk Lawyer - Dubai

- Role

- Expertise

- Job Location

- Dubai

- Description

The role is to provide risk and compliance support to the business in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. The MEA region extends to more than 60 partners in 9 offices across 7 jurisdictions (UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania).

The aim of the role is to help ensure that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards in the manner in which the professional standards of conduct are applied in client relationships, in its management of risk and its compliance with regulatory requirements. The role will include some supervisory responsibility for junior members of the team based in the MEA region and require working closely with other Risk colleagues based globally.

**The Team**

The Risk and Compliance team provide support to the firm's Senior Management and to the wider business, to ensure that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards of professional conduct, optimally manages risk and ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Drafting and negotiating commercial contract terms with public and private sector clients and legal services suppliers, including framework, referral and escrow agreements, client engagement terms, NDAs and MOUs.
- Reviewing and negotiating commercial terms with professional services suppliers.
- Working with the team to manage AML/CFT queries for the region and assisting with preparation for regulatory supervision visits (e.g. by Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority), regulatory filing obligations, suspicious activity reporting and liaison with authorities, including police, Financial Intelligence Units and legal services regulators.
- Supporting cross-functional business projects with respect to matters such as new services and legal supplier engagement.
- Responding to queries from partners, functional managers and other key stakeholders on a wide range of client-facing and internal governance, legal, and risk matters in the MEA region.
- Working closely with Conflicts Lawyers to assist with conflicts clearance.
- Assisting with the supervision and development of the junior members of the team.
- Supporting the development of and embedding of risk policies, procedures and guidance to deliver a practical, robust and forward-looking approach.
- Fostering relationships and engagement with functional departments, such as BD, IT, HR and Finance, to the end of promoting the risk function profile and services and encouraging joined-up approaches to projects and problems.
- Assisting with embedding a risk training and induction programme across the region, aligned with the global training plan.
- Taking an active role in the promotion and development of a healthy risk management culture across the region, encouraging a good ethical approach to be taken in all decision
- making.

**Essential Skills & Experience**
- Legally qualified with at least 5 years' experience working in a leading commercial law firm
- Previous experience of risk and compliance critical
- Excellent interpersonal skills - the right person should have a positive attitude and will liaise with both lawyers and business services groups, in each case at all levels of seniority
- Strong organisational skills
- Creates and sustains a positive team environment
- Strong analytical skills and ability to focus on detail but also on the larger picture
- Takes responsibility and ownership for issues and problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and think critically
- A strong service focus with the need to listen and understand the essential requirements of different areas of the firm

**Business Services Competencies**

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

- Technical Excellence
- People and Team
- Client/Stakeholder Relationships
- Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
- Personal Effectiveness

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

**Clyde & Co**

Clyde & Co is a global law firm which has quadrupled in size over the past decade.Revenues from the firm's 50+ offices* worldwide rose to £627million for the last financial year.The firm has over 1800 fee earners, across six continents, with 4000 staff advising corporates, financial institutions, private individuals and governments.

**Clyde & Co, MEA**

With over 30 years' experience in the region and the largest presenc

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