Legal Counsel

7 days ago

Dubai, United Arab Emirates DP World Full time

Key responsibilities
- Provide effective, reliable and user-friendly support, advice and assistance to senior managers within DP World on legal matters affecting any aspect of DP World’s business. Will act under the instructions and directions of Senior Legal Counsels.
- Review, draft and negotiate a broad range of legal documents (including consultancy agreements, services agreements, Lease agreements) ensuring that legal requirements are met within such documents. Will act under the instructions and directions of Senior Legal Counsels.
- Provide reliable, commercially focused, advice in an efficient and effective manner.
- Identify and analyze legal issues arising in transactions and new projects. Make clear and commercially focused recommendations in respect of such issues after review by Senior Legal Counsels.
- Analyze material disputes, and determine and implement strategy to be followed in each case.
- Provide effective reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel.
- Liaise with external counsel as required and streamline communications between other departments/ business units and external lawyers to ensure cost efficiency.
- Filing and maintaining legal records of all the legal documentation for future reference.

Teachnical
- **Legislation Compliance -**
- **Adherence to Laws **:Ensures all local and applicable international laws, agreements and regulations are followed/adhered to and are reflected in the agreements.
- **Legal - Knowledge of Legal and Regulatory Requirements**
- **Understanding of legal and regulatory requirements **:Keeps current on laws, controls and regulatory requirements framework and structure related to the core functions of DP World and its affiliates.
- **Adherence to legal and regulatory requirements **:Adheres to legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., reporting mandates, compliance requirements).
- **Internal and external control environments **:Establishes the value of preferred alternatives by relating them to the other party's needs and exposing problems with undesirable alternatives; envisions and verbalizes potential solutions to areas of disagreement.

**Legal - Legal - Negotiation and Influence**
- **Persuasion Skills**:Moves others toward a position, with or without authority, by communicating expertise and providing a compelling rationale.
- **Legal - Drafting and Review**
- **Knowledge of Legal Terminology**:Accurately uses legal terminology while drafting and reviewing legal documentation.
- **Preparing Legal Documents**:Independently prepares legal documentation in a clear, accurate and timely manner, to support a proposed business case. Properly prepares legal forms, ensuring formatting compliance of legal documents.
- **Reviewing Legal Documents**:Reviews a wide range of simple legal documents, clearly and accurately, identifies areas of potential risk or non-compliance and provides edits/comments with their rationale.

Functional
- Customers and Joint Venture Partners.
- External Law Firms.
- Government Entities.
- Senior Management.
- Close working relationship regarding specific legal issues and transaction management.
- Head Office Department.

Training team members and business units on the templates

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