Legal Counsel

Working as a key member of the Middle East & Africa (MEA) legal team and working closely with the MEA Chief Counsel AECOM Operations and other disciplines your role will extend across front end contract reviews and negotiations major and any other projects and corporate transactions. You will be required to work closely with the Civil Infrastructure business line within AECOM MEA as the responsible lawyer but also across AECOMs other business lines and regions providing legal advice on matters such as ethics and compliance construction law and the management of disputes and claims including professional indemnity matters.

Duties:

• Providing legal support to the AECOM MEA business and in particular the Civil Infrastructure business to ensure it complies with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
• Providing proactive solutions focused legally sound advice and support in a timely fashion to the AECOM MEA business.
• Handling matters relating to contracts including reviewing and negotiating a high volume of consultancy agreements joint venture arrangements and subcontracts between AECOM its clients and other third parties and preparing bid responses on contractual terms and conditions partnering with the wider commercial and operations teams.
• Managing contentious disputes and claims including matters notified to our professional indemnity insurers.
• Working collaboratively with the AECOM MEA and AECOM Global legal teams on major projects and international pursuits involving the broader AECOM business.
• Handling matters relating to the implementation of risk management initiatives including identifying and implementing AECOMs policies and procedures including the delegation of authority risk triggers.
• Working with other corporate functions of the AECOM MEA business including Operations; Finance & Accounting; the Office of Risk Management and Human Resources.
• Providing advice in relation to labor law matters and employment disputes.
• Management of and instructions to external legal counsel.
• Assisting the MEA Chief Counsel in matters relating to AECOMs obligations under ethics and compliance related laws (eg: US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act US AntiBoycott Regulations and the UK Bribery Act) policies and procedures (both external and internal).
• Providing legal training to the business as required.
• Developing and managing standard form and sample documents if necessary (eg: NDAs consultancy agreements and subconsultancy contracts etc).

Qualifications :

Experience

A minimum of 6 years post admission experience is required. Arabic (written and spoken) would be highly regarded.

The following experience is strongly desirable:

• Strong contracts and projects capabilities and experience
• Expertise managing contentious matters / disputes
• Top tier law firm experience
• ME region experience
• Multinational corporation experience
• Ethics and compliance experience
• Construction / engineering industry experience.

Qualification

• A Bachelor of Law is required ideally from a reputable university.

Specific Skills Required

• Good oral and written English communications skills including excellent presentation reviewing and drafting skills.
• Experience in the area of frontend contract review and negotiation major projects and construction law ideally gained within a large commercially driven multinational law firm or organization.
• Negotiation skills in a number of different scenarios including written virtual and facetoface with MEA and international client bodies and their advisors.
• Solid administration and organisational skills and the ability to work with own initiative as well as being a team player.
• Ability to be flexible in working to prioritise workflows and work collaboratively with many parts of the business.

Additional Information :

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