Head of Legal Department

2 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Shuraa Business Setup Full time

**Job Designation: Head of Legal Department**

**Company: Confidential**

**Job Brief**:
Shuraa is currently hiring for its client who is into Legal Consultancy. The client is looking for an ambitious, dynamic, and energetic corporate lawyer to join on board.

**Responsibilities**
- Review and interpret legal matters, draft, and amend legal documents such as commercial and civil contracts, legal briefs, power of attorney, complaints, and legal notices.
- Responsible for all legal works in civil, commercial and litigations.
- Handling administrative litigation, arbitration and dispute proceedings and resolutions.
- Provide legal guidance in structuring, drafting, and negotiating commercial terms related to sales, real estate, rental disputes, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance.
- Monitor changes in relevant laws regulations and other compliance regulations.
- Advice on governance legislation and procedural matters.
- File lawsuits of eviction of the leased premises against tenants, and present rental disputes before RDSC.
- Effectively discusses and advises clients on complex legal matters and collaborative supports development of responses to challenging situations.
- Leads a team of legal professionals on all corporate needs, establishing processes relating to prioritization, legal drafting of documents, negotiation procedures and settlement protocols.
- Contributes to company’s strategic planning and decision-making processes, support the allocation of resources, and manage legal budgets.
- Responsible for ensuring that all allegations of legal misconduct are investigated and reported in a timely manner to maintain integrity within the business.

**Requirements**:

- Past Experience as a Senior Lawyer in a corporate legal consultancy setup.
- Minimum 5-6 years’ experience leading legal guidance and strategy regarding data privacy and intellectual property with a professional Law degree
- Successful experience leading negotiations on complex, high value contracts, and agreements.
- Track-record of developing and producing effective and high-quality legal documents including contracts, board minutes, and corporate governance documents.
- Good customer management skills with strong project management, interpersonal, collaborative and communication skills.
- Extensive experience in drafting and negotiating agreements with impeccable attention to detail and quality control.
- Ability to independently manage issues as well as support multi-stakeholder project.

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

**Experience**:

- Legal: 4 years (required)



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