Group Legal Manager
Cequens
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :15 years, 1 أشهر
-Managing the Legal Affairs all over the group entities across MENA region.
-Built the legal team and managing the same with the most efficient and productive with the team spirit to be the main lead.
Updated the Group Corporate Governance and assuring that all entities are complying with the same.
Staying updated on legislation concerning the business's industry.
Advising the shareholders and top management on legal matters related to the restructure of the group entities.
Advising other stakeholders and the top management with any legal concerns and legal consequences for any decided change or new decisions that will affect the group or any of its entities’ operation.
Supporting the Group in the litigation matters and disputes resolution in the best way possible and liaise with external law firms to handle court disputes and lawsuits.
Drafting, reviewing the business contracts templates and ensuring compliance with the updated applicable laws.
Managing the company legal matters.
Handling the company projects’ contracts and assisting with contracts negotiating, drafting, reviewing and advising the top management accordingly.
Advising the top management on the company restructuring and relevant legal matters such as mergers and acquisitions.
Liaising with law firms in different countries to manage the government and authorities related work to register the acquisitions and restructures according to the top management plan.
Providing accurate legal consultations to other stakeholders when required.
Drafting the Company’s corporate governance.
Advising the company and its clients in various law fields including but not limited to Commercial Companies laws, Labour law, Civil Laws, Banking Regulations, Freezones’ Rules & Regulations.
Drafting and reviewing various 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 UAE relevant laws, mainly Companies and Labour laws, as well as the relevant authorities’ rules & regulations updates and advising the company and its clients accordingly to ensure the company’s compliance with the effective updates.
Drafting accurate and solid legal opinions in various legal matters when required by the top management or the company’s clients.
Handling the company’s internal policies, ensure the compliance with relevant laws and supervise the company’s compliance with the same.
Provide the company’s clients with proper commercial advice 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.
Registered at DIFC Wills Service Centre as an official wills’ draftsman that allowed me to provide the Company’s clients with the proper legal advice concerning the rules and resgulations of DIFC WPR and drafting the Non-Muslim Wills as well as registering the same to protct the foreigners assets in UAE.
Handling arbitration disputes in Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) when the arbitration language is English.
Handled total of 5 cases of arbitration in DIAC during my period in the firm (total of 135 cases was registered in DIAC during this period) and legally representated the claimants of these arbitrations with winning rate of 100% (4 cases succeeded to win the intended arbitration award and 1 case failed to find the defendant in UAE).
Preparation of arbitration cases, filing the arbitration requests, answers, counterclaims, interim measures, inviting arbitrators and constitution of the tribunals, advance on costs schedule according to DIAC rules & regulations.
Drafting various legal opinions and agreements in English and Arabic languages.
Legal research, factual investigation, documents’ management, trials and case witnesses preparation.
Representing the clients in dispute resolution negotiations with the litigants legal representatives.
The experience in this respected and reputable company emphasized my alertness towards details and was considered the actual beginning of my career in the law field.
Ensure the satisfaction of the legal department by performing legal research in the relevant areas of law and regulation, summarizing the legal information and update the Senior legal counsel with the brief Summary.
Reresenting the company before government and semi-government bodies for various matters such as obtainig the company’s projects required permissions and approvals, handling the company’s due fines, if any, and providing track and detailed reporting to the top management regarding fulfillments of the company’s projects requirements and contract obligations.
Drafting and reviewing various legal documents such as Sub-Contractors Agreements, Sale & Purchase Agreements and Employment Agreements
Assisting the Senior Legal Consultants with organizing, archiving documents and preparing bundles.
•Drafting and organizing emails and meetings with counter parties.