Head of Legal Affairs
Bank Sohar S.A.O.G
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :22 years, 6 أشهر
In charge of overall legal aspects of the Bank and handle all legal matters in the capacity of the general counsel for the Bank.
Providing legal advice to the Bank’s Board of Directors, Management and different departments and units.
Draft and review of all legal documents with legal nature, both in Arabic and English.
Co-ordination of external counsel’s work.
Acting as Board Secretary and undertake all legal work relating to Bank’s Board and shareholders’ general meetings of the Bank.
Laying down the strategy of the Bank’s legal function and manage all its administrative aspects, such as budgeting, staffing …etc
Coaching junior colleagues and staff.
Played the role of Acting Head of Compliance Department for two years, in addition to my legal role.
To establish and manage a legal unit responsible for providing comprehensive legal services to the biggest bank in Sudan and its five subsidiaries and responsible for all strategic issues of the unit such as drafting and implementing the Unit's Strategy, Plan and Manual, including laying down staffing criteria, setting up the procedure of outsourcing and co-ordination of external counsels work, training and coaching staff members of the unit.
Comprehensive review of all contracts and forms of the bank and its subsidiaries with a view of standardizing the same.
Reviewing, drafting of documentation relating to corporate and retail banking facility agreements, finance security documents and commercial arrangements including, but not limited to, credit facility agreements, pledge and mortgage agreements, services agreements, syndication agreements, escrow trust account agreements, supply agreements, all types of letters of credit, and guarantees, pursuant to applicable laws and internationally accepted standards, as may be relevant and applicable.
Work as counsel to Corporate, Retail, Investment Banking, Private Banking, Treasury, Trade Finance and all other Divisions of the Bank as well as to the Bank's subsidiaries and management.
Manage a continual legal dialogue with the business and support units within the Bank in relation to the various on-going projects.
Assist management in developing legal and commercial strategies associated with business operations.
Vet major agreements, joint ventures, partnership arrangements, launching of new products, etc.
Advice management of the Bank of the legal implications of proposed policy and management decisions and specific legal issues referred to the Legal Unit by other business or support units within the Bank after carrying out the necessary research and analysis.
Represent the bank and the subsidiaries before courts of jurisdiction and arbitration panels.
•Provide legal advice to clients in all legal aspects, with special emphasis on commercial law, banking and finance, corporate, contracts and construction laws;
•Draft and review all types of finance facilities and loan agreements to ensure compliance of the same with relevant laws and regulations;
•Draft and review all types of contracts, securities deeds, Constructions Agreements, including FIDIC, legal opinions and corporate constitutional documents and other corporate documents, such as SPAs; APAs, JVs, prepare and draft Due Diligence Reports, all in Arabic and English;
•Registration and filing of all types of securities and securities' documents.
•Registration of all types of Business Association and IP;
•Representation of clients before courts of jurisdiction, arbitration panels and other tribunals in all types of disputes including banking and finance matters, corporate issues, construction and investment disputes; and
•Coaching junior colleagues.
•Draft, review and negotiate all types of legal documents and agreements involving the application of general corporate/commercial as well as specialist financial laws and concepts and providing the Bank’s departments with all required legal support to ensure that Bank’s interests are protected.
•Works as counsel to Corporate and Investment Banking Division, Private Banking Division and all other Divisions of the Bank as well as to the Bank's officers and management.
•Works as part of the advisory team to protect the Bank from and mitigate against, adverse risk or legal implications.
•Manage a high volume of legal projects (bespoke advisory and transactional) within defined time periods.
•Review, draft and negotiate various legal documentation and advise as to the legality of such matters.
•Advise management of the Bank of the legal implications of proposed policy and management decisions and specific legal issues referred to the Legal Department by other business or support units within the Bank after carrying out the necessary research and analysis.
Advise or recommend from a legal perspective on actions to be taken or refrained from in respect of the issues referred to or topics raised by business or support units within the Bank.
•Advise the Bank’s officers on legal risks associated with business operations, their potential impact and suggest risk mitigating strategies.
•Assists management in developing legal and commercial strategies associated with business operations.
•Vet major agreements, joint ventures, partnership arrangements and launching of new products.
•Liaison of external counsels' work
•Management and supervision of external counsel acting on the Bank’s behalf.
•Train and coach junior members of the Legal Department.
•Translate documents of legal nature from Arabic to English and vice versa.
•Representation of the Bank before courts of jurisdiction, arbitration panels and other tribunals.
•Representation of clients before courts and other tribunals.
•Providing legal opinion to clients in all areas of law, with special emphasis on Business and Commercial laws.
•Handling the duties of Company secretariat in some client companies.
•Drafting all types of legal documents including contracts, companies’ basic documents, legal opinions, court memos and pleadings.
•Registration of IP rights, Business Association and securities.
•Representation of clients in negotiations.