Senior Legal Counsel

2 days ago


Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ADNOC Full time
About the Company

As a global energy maritime logistics leader, ADNOC L&S boasts a world-class asset base and serves as the dedicated and vital logistics arm for ADNOC Group. Our mission-critical and highly specialized services span ADNOC's entire value chain, while we also provide market-leading, cost-competitive maritime and logistics solutions to over 100 global customers, shipping to more than 50 countries worldwide.

About the Job

This role is responsible for overseeing the entire gamut of legal affairs and corporate legal matters of the company. Key responsibilities include providing legal opinions, advising, interpretations, and complex risk mitigations on contracts, agreements, deeds, and other legal documents from various projects, commercial, drilling, subsurface, and other functions.

Key Accountabilities
  • Plan, organize, and coordinate the activities of Legal Affairs, supervising subordinate staff and ensuring the smooth operation of the department.
  • Define and draw up major complex contract agreements between parties, analyzing contract conditions and making recommendations for legally acceptable courses of action.
  • Provide preventive legal advice to Senior Management, Commercial Division, and Project Function on all topics to minimize disputes and litigation, which is costly to the company.
  • Involved in the preparation, review, and negotiation of company contractual transactions to limit potential risk exposure, providing legal representation for the company and ensuring compliance with company policies and ethical standards.
  • Provision of comprehensive legal services to the contract and procurement function.
  • Risk transactions on international deals that require negotiation of issues involving International Law.
  • Studies and scans contractor's claims likely to impact the company's operations, analyzing claims and making legal recommendations to bring relevant points to the attention of the Commercial Division.
  • Participates in negotiation of settlements of disputes arising out of claims or contracts as required, prepares submissions in arbitration cases, and coordinates with the company's advocate when representing the company in court actions both locally and abroad.
  • Drafting and reviewing different contracts in the oil and gas, construction, Drilling sector.
  • Supervising and giving guidance and counseling to subordinate staff in the legal department.
  • Advising on how new regulatory initiatives impact the entire business of the company.
  • Advising on corporate governance and giving recommendations on the adoption of corporate governance policies.
  • Advising management on legal and regulatory changes that impact the business of the company.
Minimum Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Law or other suitable similar discipline.
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience preferably in top international law / consultancy firms and/or local or international blue-chip corporate/s.
  • Experience in Shipping/Maritime/Logistics industry is an advantage but not a pre-requisite.
  • Must be a qualified lawyer in a common law or civil law jurisdiction.

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