Group Legal Manager
Cequens
Total years of experience :14 years, 6 Months
Responsible for establishing and reviewing company contracts for new projects and/or tenders.
Joint ventures with multiple international companies and semi-government entities across MENA region.
Negotiating and arranging contractual agreements of Mergers & Acquisition.
Advising in Establishing new entities in GCC area according to the relevant authorities and the applicable laws.
• Advice Swiss ILC, its clients in various law fields including but not limited to Commercial Companies laws as well as Labour law, Civil Laws, Real Estate Laws, Banking Regulations, Freezones’ Laws & Regulations and international laws.
• Drafting and reviewing all types of contracts and agreements in bilingual (English-Arabic) including but not limited to Joint Ventures, Sale & Purchase Agreements, Employment Contracts, Transfer of Shares Agreements, Lease Agreements, Letters of Intent, MoUs, Settlement Agreements, Board Resolutions, Shareholder Resolutions, Memorandums & Articles of Association.
• Monitoring the laws as well as the relevant authorities’ rules & regulations updates and updating the management and relevant departments or parties.
• Drafting the most accurate legal opinions in various law fields.
• Reviewing and amending the company’s code of conduct to insure the legal protection.
• Provide the company’s clients with proper advices concerning the business setup in UAE Economic Departments as well as the various UAE free zone areas, the legal obligations and liabilities in commencing business throughout a UAE entity whether in the mainland or offshore and the compliance with the UAE various laws as well as the authorities’ rules and regulations.
• Registered at DIFC Wills Service Centre and, subsequently, being able to provide our clients with the legal advices concerning drafting the Non-Muslim Wills as well as registering the same at DIFC WPR.
• Involved in all aspects of litigation support including legal research, factual investigation, documents’ management and trial preparation.
• Served as liaison between clients, opposing counsel and case witnesses.
• Organized and indexed case files; developed time-saving case filing system.
• Scheduled depositions, hearings and clients’ meetings.
• Prepared deposition summaries.
• Prepared submissions for Arbitration hearings in the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC).
• Assisting in multiple Arbitration cases from the very beginning to the very end with accuracy and success rate.
• Preparation of cases, files requests, answers, counterclaims and interim measures.
• Inviting Arbitrators and Constitution of the tribunals.
• Advance on Costs schedule.
• Legal Research for possible Interim measures pursuant to the relative applied law.
• Drafting and reviewing Contracts, Agreements, M&As, MOUs, JVs in bilingual language (English-Arabic).
• More than 2 years of experience in this respected and reputable company emphasized my alertness towards details and change, in order to ensure satisfaction of the legal department by performing legal research into the relevant areas of law and regulation, and summarizing the information and update the Senior legal counsel with the brief Summary. Assisting with conveyance and management transactions.
• Negotiating and dealing with several government and semi-government bodies on a monthly basis such as (STC-MOBILY) which requires keeping track and detailed reporting to higher management, concerning the achievements of the company projects.
• Assisting in drafting various legal documents such as Sub-Contractors Agreements, Sale & Purchase Agreements and Employment Agreements.
• Assisting in criminal, civil and family cases, reviewing police stations and courts, drafting contracts, finishing all the legal procedures whether within the Courts, Public Prosecutions or Police stations.
• Preparing submissions for civil, criminal, and commercial cases
• Attending to matters involving experts and witnesses,
Contract and Wills drafting, negotiation pertaining to business incorporation and matters as well as intellectual property registration, protection, and defense.
Assisting the Senior Legal Consultants with organizing, archiving documents and preparing bundles.
•Drafting and organizing emails and meetings with counter parties.