Group Legal Counsel
19 hours ago
Local Unit & Position Description:
**Group Legal** is part of DNV’s Group functions responsible for providing legal advice to all business areas on a global basis and consists of over 30 lawyers and support staff. Group Legal is a distributed team with lawyers located in Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai, Hamburg, Høvik, London and Houston, headed by the Group Legal Director at the DNV headquarters in Veritasparken at Høvik.
The Legal Counsel will be reporting to the Head of DNV Group Legal, Region Middle East & Asia Pacific in Singapore and will be part of a highly skilled and motivated team responsible for the provision of high-quality legal services and advice to the DNV Group in the Middle East & Asia Pacific Region. In this new role you will mainly be focusing on DNV’s Inspection Business, but you will also be working with the entire DNV organisation, advising all business areas (Energy Systems, Maritime, Digital Solutions, Accelerator, Supply Chain and Product Assurance and Business Assurance) as well as providing legal advice to our shared service functions. As a member Group Legal, you will also work closely with other lawyers in the region as well as the ones that are based in Head Office or other regions.
As Legal Counsel in Dubai you will provide legal support and will be in direct contact with DNV managers and employees, at all levels and frequently have the opportunity to participate actively and support the business in its day-to-day challenges.
He or she will be required to analyse and identify legal risks and implications on a wide variety of issues, such as:
- Contractual matters, including drafting and negotiations
- Corporate law
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Claims handling and litigation
- Procurement
- Regulatory issues
**Key accountabilities**:
- To act in accordance with and promote DNV Group’s purpose, vision, and values, actively promoting and advising on business procedures and policies.
- To routinely draft, negotiate and conclude a variety of commercial agreements including, but not limited to, service contracts, subcontract agreements, MOUs, collaboration agreements, joint industry participation agreements, procurement agreement, across all business areas.
- To liaise with client’s legal advisors / representatives to negotiate and finalize mutually acceptable legal terms.
- Support and assist with litigation and other dispute proceedings involving DNV and to support a positive conclusion of such.
- Advise DNV on statutory laws, regulations and judicial developments affecting the Company within the Middle East & Asia Pacific region.
- M&A work including provision of support in corporate and strategic restructuring of the company, including divestments of business units and corporate entities.
- Work with and effectively manage external counsel instructed to undertake matters on behalf of DNV.
- Develop, prepare and provide legal training to internal stakeholders.
- Driving improvement of internal processes and governance.
- Able to challenge, influence and communicate effectively with key directors, senior managers and customers in a constructive, pragmatic and positive manner, building positive working relationships including providing required responses to business needs and compliance with legal obligations required by regulatory bodies
Position Qualifications:
**Position Qualifications**
- Professional legal experience from either a top-ranked law firm and/or well-regarded in-house legal department in a reputable commercial multinational organisation.
- Qualified lawyer with 3 to 5 years’ proven track record in commercial and corporate legal affairs.
- Excellent academic credentials from a respected law school.
- Excellent written & spoken English, secondary language skills, especially Arabic would be an advantage.
- Excellent drafting skills.
**Person's specifications**:
- A strong communicator and possess a commercially savvy approach to legal matters.
- Able to handle tasks and cases independently and effectively engage and consult with internal stakeholders.
- Has experience from the UAE or other countries in the GCC.
- Is ideally currently located in the UAE or in the GCC and intends to work and stay in Dubai for the foreseeable future.
- Is delivery-focused and able to work in a highly-pressurized, deadline-driven environment whilst maintaining focus on quality and attention to detail.
- Is genuinely interested in our clients and possesses a driving need to facilitate their own, and thereby your, success.
- Is a self-motivated and creative self-starter.
- has a commercial, international and common-sense approach to legal challenges;
- Has an appetite to use and develop wider legal skills/knowledge.
- Asks critical questions but is a “to the point” person.
- Takes personal responsibility and ownership for own decisions/actions.
- Has flexibility to travel within the GCC, India and other countries in the Region and overseas as needed.
- Is an open an
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