Head of Legal Affairs
The National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC)
Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months
• Managerial Responsibilities:
- To identify legal strategic objectives and contribute to the formulation of Legal strategy, as well as to direct and provide operational oversight on all legal activities, ensuring the mitigation and elimination of any legal exposure and risks while enforcing adherence to all laws and regulations in order to protect the legal interests of NADEC.
- Define and direct the implementation of the annual business plan and targets and set the strategic agenda of the Legal function to deliver NADEC vision and mission.
- Ensure that the strategy is translated into operational business plans for the Legal function and monitor the performance and execution of those plans to achieve functional objectives and deliver the Company’s strategy.
- Oversee the activities of the legal team to ensure that all work is carried out efficiently, in line with the strategic project management plans, policies and procedures.
- Build and lead a motivated, engaged and competent team, by setting priorities and objectives, managing performance, and providing ongoing feedback and coaching to meet the functional challenges and goals.
- Serve as a role model to ensure employees’ awareness and commitment to NADEC vision, mission, values, fundamentals and corporate strategy to establish a highly engaged and motivated team, and continuously improve performance.
- Lead the preparation of the functional budget and monitor financial performance versus the budget so that the business is aware of anticipated costs/revenues, areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified, and potential performance improvement opportunities are capitalized.
• Job Description:
- Intellectual Rights and Trademarks Management: Register trademarks inside and outside KSA, follow up on their registration, expiration, renewals, infringements and cancellations and make the necessary arrangements and procedures to overcome disputes and problems associated with trademarks.
- Organize the registration and the renewal of all licenses, memorandum of association, to ensure seamless operations of all entities within NADEC.
- Advisory: Provide legal advice and recommendations to assist the executive board on critical legal matters with the decision-making process to safeguard and protect the legal interests of NADEC against any legal liability.
- Direct the management of various litigation and dispute settlement activities and legal negotiations to ensure that NADEC rights and interests are protected.
- Review and manage rights with third parties, JVs, and business partners to ensure the organization’s interests are adequately protected and direct the initiation of litigation or court process as necessary
- Follow up with NADEC’s business units’ managers on critical legal issues to provide legal advice when required and support the business units in making related decisions.
- Oversee the appointment of external legal advisers who may be retained for specific expertise.
- Legal Representation: Guide the preparation and review of contracts, agreements and documents for external procurement, joint ventures, share purchases, business acquisitions, licensing, leasing, etc. to ensure the completeness and correctness of documents according to the laws in the KSA, in addition to setting the policies and legal requirements of NADEC.
• Managerial Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the sector through performing own responsibilities and managing direct reports performance.
- Set the department’s goals and objectives and ensure the cascading of such to reporting sections, and guide their achievement.
- Contribute to the development of the sector’s policies, procedures and processes through providing input as advised by the direct supervisor.
- Provide direction and advice to the direct reports in performing their delegated responsibilities.
- Ensure the ongoing development of the department’s employees, and assure the developmental activities of direct reports.
- Oversee the overall performance of direct reports and ensure KPI’s are well communicated and monitored.
- Ensure effective identification, allocation and utilization of the division’s resources.
- Direction of Subordinates by organize and supervise the activities and work of a small team of subordinates to ensure that all work within a specific area of Legal activity is carried out in an efficient and procedurally compliant manner.
- Provide formal and informal feedback to subordinates in order to ensure their continuous development.
- Implement approved departmental policies, processes, procedures and provide instructions to subordinates/team members and monitor their adherence so that work is carried out in a controlled manner.
- Comply with all relevant safety, quality and environmental management policies, procedures and controls to ensure a healthy and safe work environment.
- Ensure the compliance with all relevant information Security practices and standards to ensure data integrity and confidentiality.
• Job Description:
- To be responsible of the delivery of reliable, accurate, timely and well-informed advice to the Department and the Executive Leadership Team on legal issues and the potential legal implications of various corporate strategies and business initiatives and projects, according to the policies and procedures followed within ELM.
- Implement the day-to-day operations assigned for the Legal Department / Section to ensure compliance with the established standards and procedures.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices taking into account ‘international best practice’, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
- Prepare reports of Legal Department / Section timely and accurately to meet company and department requirements, policies and standards.
- Provide legal counselling for all corporate related issues and if needed to employee for personal legal matters.
- Provide counselling, with the Sharia background, from an Islamic point of view to matters of importance regarding products, contract, conventions, practices, transactions and cases to be in line with Islamic Religion Guidelines.
- Advise the Chief Executive, Directors, Heads and other staff on any legislation, and other law affecting the Company.
- Work on the interpretation of legislative provisions and procedural rules.
- Work with the Company Governance Team, to draft material for publication on relevant legal matters and give presentations on legal topics; when required to assist them in ensuring the effective and timely operation of the responsibilities under the privacy Issue.
- Acquisition and merger and joint venture.
- Providing legal consultation related to companies regulations and governance, labor cases.
- Ensure accuracy in reviewing all types of contracts, agreements and MOUs.
- Draft and review required company policies.
- Perform and participate in any legal research for the company.
- Be responsible for the conduct of litigation on behalf of the Company.
- Instruct counsel and external legal advisers on registration appeals, judicial reviews of decisions and other issues.
• Managerial Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the sector through performing own responsibilities and managing direct reports performance.
- Set the department’s goals and objectives and ensure the cascading of such to reporting sections, and guide their achievement.
- Contribute to the development of the sector’s policies, procedures and processes through providing input as advised by the direct supervisor.
- Provide direction and advice to the direct reports in performing their delegated responsibilities.
- Ensure the ongoing development of the department’s employees, and assure the developmental activities of direct reports.
- Oversee the overall performance of direct reports and ensure KPI’s are well communicated and monitored.
- Ensure effective identification, allocation and utilization of the division’s resources.
• Job Description:
- Ensures that the company’s interests are safeguarded within the contractual transactions (including contracts and letters) and all respective risks are well identified in addition to representing the company in all matters relating to contractual disputes.
- Ensure that the gathered information required for drafting/reviewing the contract as well as other reviewers’ input like Finance, End User, RA, and Insurance etc. are well reflected in the contractual transaction for the best interest of the company.
- Develop standard contracts as per the requirements from the purchase process and set standards in order to facilitate purchasing / services agreement activities.
- Draft all types of contracts for company ensuring that all contracts meet with all legal/regulatory/ governmental standards with the aim to, safeguard the company’s interests, and limit the risk potential and protect it from litigation.
- Resolve any issues related to contractual/legal matters as may arise from the business.
- Review all contracts submitted by the company end users to ensure that they are in the companies interests and that companies interests are safeguarded at all times.
- Represent the company from a legal perspective in negotiating legal terms for contracts and advising the business on the implementation of contracts and the potential risks to look out for.
- Provide advice to company end users for all contract/tender process etc. to ensure compliance with the company’s contractual/legal standards.
- Provide information to the litigation team in all cases in which the company is being pursued.
- Undertake research on relevant laws of the land, new legislation, etc., and recommend any enhancements to the companies’ contracts, contracting processes or procedures to protect its interests.
- Perform other related duties or assignments as directed.
- Coordinate with External Law firms to obtain necessary legal support as required.
- Develop and maintain professional relations with company customers, partners and suppliers with respect to the legal and contractual requirements as needed to exchange information.
• Job Description:
- Prepares minutes for permanent records following meetings.
- Planning of board of directors and association meetings.
- The creation and timely distribution of agenda for Board meetings.
- The accurate recording and distribution of the minutes of Board of Directors meetings.
- Updating, maintaining and safe storage of the Association’s Minute Book and other legal documents.
- The maintenance of a file or manual of governance policies and a systematic schedule for their review as determined by the board.
- The management of external correspondence and ensuring that requests made of the Board of Directors, is reported and responded to in a timely manner.
Legal
• Job Description:
- Provide legal advice and support in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including Master Services Agreements, Consultancy Agreements, Outsourcing Agreements, sub-contracts etc.
- Ensure that all contracts meet with all international/regulatory/governmental/commercial standards, safeguard the company’s interests.
- Limit the risk potential and protect it from litigation.
- Assist with keeping the company contracts and guidelines/policies up to date.
- Maintain records of all contracts within the business, in order that they are all captured, tracked and appropriately reviewed as required by the business.
- Co-ordinate with Contracts Section for all contract/tender process etc. to ensure compliance with the company’s contractual standards.
- Provide information to the Legal Counsel Litigation in all cases in which the company is being pursued or is instigating actions of a contractual nature.
- Assist the external lawyers / firms to prepare for hearings and corporate meeting, write case summaries and prepare case research notes and legal documents.
- Liaison with external law firm, solicitors, attend court matters, & remain abreast with changing legal & regulatory laws related the sector.
- Perform other related duties or assignments as directed.
• Job Description:
- Managing the Litigation cases.
- Representing the Company in its legal cases before the General Court, the Board of Grievance, the Labor Court, etc..
- Filing claims to protect the Company's rights against any unlawful breach for its commercial agreements with others parties (i.e. telecom operators, individuals, clients, subcontractors).
- Dealing with any illegitimate act that has caused financial damage to the Company.
- Drafting memoranda of law on the Company legal disputes.
- Drafting contracts, commercial agreements, settlements, and internal memoranda on the Company legal cases.
- Advising on disputes, claims, and litigation.
- Ensuring the accuracy fulfilment of the court judgments issued in favor of and/or against the Company.
- Keeping up on the amendments and changes in legislation and government regulations.
- Responding to the violation notices received from the CITC’s violation committee.
- Filing lawsuits to the Board of Grievance against the fines/penalties imposed by the CITC’s violation committee.
• Job Description:
- Intern at the office of the Honorable Judge Thomas P. Boyd.
- Prepared for trial by conducting legal research, drafting motions, and records requests.
• Job Description:
- To direct and control the provision of effective legal services to the company and to provide legal advice to managers and staff.
- Negotiates with suppliers to draw up procurement contracts: Negotiated, administers, extends, terminates, and renegotiates contracts.
- Performing full range contracts administration, monitoring customers, suppliers and company contractual compliance through contract closeout.
- Managing and archiving files in assigned areas of responsibility.
- Taking action with regard to expiring agreements, leases or contracts with appropriate lead time for business decision and action regarding changing requirements, contractors, completion, etc. following up with appropriate action.
- Responsible for the establishment, negotiation and administrative management of wide range of business commitments and agreements from initiation of acquisition to closure and final settlement.
- Drafting documents, supporting or advising the Contracts Manager or Contract Director and documenting the contract file regarding corporate contract decisions. Ensuring that appropriate documentation is secured and available for follow-on activities on that and future related agreements.
- Assuring appropriate reviews and approval processes are accomplished; recommending contract or other action approvals.
- Reviewing contract related correspondence, distributing and requesting action as appropriate. Providing contract interpretation advice to Contracts Manager, contracts Director and other management personnel as required in the area of assigned responsibility.
- Work on tenders and contracts for Saudi Royal Forces (Royal Saudi Air Force "RSAF", Royal Saudi Land Force "RSLF", Royal Saudi Navy "RSNF", Royal Saudi Air Defense "RSADF", and Saudi Arabian National Guard "SANG") in regard to Military Aircraft Maintenance, Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM), and Technical Support Programs (TSP).
- Coordinate between the outsource law firms and the company.
- Labor law issues for the employees.
- Assistant secretary of the Board of Directors.
LL.M. (Master of Laws)
Michigan State University English Language Center, East Lansing, State of Michigan, United States of America. English for Academic Purposes, September 2010 to August 2011.
LL.B. - Bachelor of Laws
