GM - Head of the Legal Department
Marafiq - Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu
Total des années d'expérience :18 years, 6 Mois
As General Director of Legal Affairs, I lead the restructuring of legal operations to boost efficiency and ensure compliance with evolving regulatory demands. My expertise encompasses overseeing initial public offerings (IPOs), enhancing corporate governance, and managing complex legal frameworks within the utilities sector.
➥ Spearhead legal department's restructuring to enhance operational efficiency and align with strategic business goals.
➥ Supervising the legal aspects of the company's IPO, coordinating with external advisors and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
➥ Supervising all judicial proceedings to successfully represent and defend in front of Judicial bodies.
➥ Oversee the creation and revision of company policies to ensure they meet regulatory standards.
➥ Lead the legal team in negotiations and dispute resolutions, reducing legal risks and protecting company interests.
➥ Enhance the legal department's capabilities by integrating advanced legal technology and continuous development
General Director of Legal & Judicial Department
▪ Manage and lead the team for providing the legal services.
▪ Successfully implemented legal process and service level agreements between the business units and legal department.
▪ Develop Rules & Procedures of Pleading in Lawsuit against Authority.
▪ Manage and lead the team for providing the legal services.
▪ Drafting, reviewing and developing the policy and procedure for the department.
Will be mentioned during the interview.
• Provide and develop legal strategies and general policies to automotive companies to assist it in reducing of legal cases and to overcome disputes with external parties.
• Drafting, reviewing, and advising on all type of contracts relevant to automotive companies such as sales & purchase, repairing, terms and condition relating to after sales services.
• Supervise the legal litigation for overcoming the legal disputes arises from provision of services relating to automotive companies.
• Provide legal advice to all commercial areas of the business, partner/vendor and procurement agreements, commercial litigations, and dispute resolution.
• Review, draft and/or negotiate all legal documentation of all legal issues related to the company, contract law, labor law, disputes cases which need attending to any court.
• Supervise the implementation of final degrees issued by judicial authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Manage and lead the team for providing the legal services.
• Drafting, reviewing and developing the policy and procedure for legal department.
• Manage and lead the team to represent the company before various kinds & degrees of courts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through legitimate representatives.
• Review all legal researches & studies relating to all kinds of lawsuits filed by or against the company, follow up the courts sessions, and preparing legal memo and documents to protect the company’s rights and interests.
• Follow up the reports regarding proceedings & courts sessions, provided by legal representatives.
• Manage & follow up the legal department team for reviewing, and drafting contracts, agreements after coordinating with respective departments in the company and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
• Arrange regular meetings for the team in order to develop employees professionally to enhance legal department, as well as follow up the work assigned to each employee.
• Manage all disputes and legal issues which submitted to the legal advisors, and provide the relevant reports on high - risk cases, and legal recommendations to internal audit department & the Audit Committee in order to avoid legal risks.
• Prepare and manage the budget of legal department and follow-up the expenses and receivables of department.
• Oversee the recruitment & selection appropriate staff to work in legal department and Provide continuous leadership, supervision, training and development of department staff ensuring an Effective and motivated team in order to serve the objectives of the department.
As General Director at a premier Riyadh law firm, I leveraged extensive expertise in Corporate Law, Foreign Investments, and Alternative Dispute Resolution to provide top-tier legal services. My role emphasized enhancing firm capabilities in handling complex legal matters including labor disputes, insurance claims, and corporate litigation, ensuring compliance with Saudi business market standards
• Drafting and spreading company's legal services strategies to insure running company's activities according to the proper legal principles.
• Review all types of contracts such as subcontracts and supply contracts or direct contracts.
• Represent the company when needed, in Official meetings, Courts and Committees.
• Develops company's legal policies in scopes of contracts and agreements pursuant to the new regulations and accumulation of practical experiences and objective circumstances.
• Review labour contracts to ensure compatibility of articles with Saudi labour laws.
• Performed different tasks such as drafting legal memorandum and preparation for hearings and drafting motion to be submitted before courts.
• Prepares typical formulas for contracts, agreements according to the company's vision.
• Legal analysis and legal advices, in all aspects needed by the company.
• Develop Rules & Procedures of Pleading in Lawsuit against Company.
• Making administrative investigations with employees in respect of labor violations.
• Representing Zain before official and judicial bodies against operators.
• Trying to settle commercial disputes between telecommunication operators.
• Helping HR in managing employee discipline and assisting in administrative investigations with employees with respect to labor violations.
• Dealing with all HR matters and other internal corporate related issues.
• Review all types of contracts such as subcontracts and supply contracts or direct contracts.
• Several contract review and negotiations with third party Saudi Arabia.
• Dealing directly with "owners" in some subjects regarding lease such as “Entry permits, maintenance and Sites development.
• Worked at the protest office and participated efficiently in the amicable settlement of commercial paper disputes.
• Rendered legal opinions in regard to all legal disputes (commercial, industrial, insurance).
• Presented oral and written legal opinion to the Chambers board of directors, its general secretariat, and members.
• Drafted contracts and various regulations.
• Member of Bid committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
• Made administrative investigations for employees resorting to disobeying the labor laws and regulations, and making suitable recommendations.
• Reviewed, drafted laws in cooperation with the competent bodies.
• Working as Secretary of Arbitration Secretariat for disputes referred by the concerned quarters (Grievances Board, General Courts, and Ministry of Commerce & Industry).
• Worked at the Commercial Agencies Disputes Reconciliation Committee, to settle commercial agencies disputes between Saudi agents and international firms world-wide e.g. European, American, Asian and Canadians, etc.