Senior Legal Counsel
Al Rawabi Dairy Company
Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months
- Draft and Review different types of Agreements related to business (commercial contracts, consultancy agreements, sale and purchase agreements, non-disclosure agreements, settlement agreements..).
- Reviewed and closed Musataha Agreement of Al Rawabi’s new Farm in Abu Dhabi.
- Reviewed and closed Construction Agreement of Biogas Plant - the first of its kind in the Middle East region -.
- Provide Legal services and counselling to ensure that the Company is operating within the Laws and assure Legal representation for the Company’s business.
- Manage Litigation and Disputes.
- Draft of bilingual legal notices (Arabic & English).
- Work collaboratively with all business units Heads and external Lawyers to fulfil the legal and contractual obligations of the organization.
- Provide general corporate advisory & Intellectual Property (trademarks).
- Advise on Corporate Governance, compliance and regulatory matters.
- Advise HR on Employment Law, policies and disputes.
Areas of Practice:
• Litigation:
- Handle different types of Court cases: Real estate, Commercial, Civil, Labour..
- Prepare Case Management Plan and draft the Memos.
- Provide accurate and timely advice to Clients in a variety of legal topics.
- Represent the Clients before the Rent Dispute Centre and advise on the related Disputes.
• Non-contentious matters:
- Provide Legal opinions and Regulatory advices.
- Review Contracts and Draft Agreements.
- Draft bilingual notices (Arabic/English).
- Transactional work.
Admitted as an Associate Member of the DIAC.
Head of Compliance:
• Heading the Compliance Department of MASAT Property Management (an entity of Dubai Properties Group) & providing in-house compliance services by supporting all business areas.
• Implement controls to protect the Company and ensure that such governance standards & systems are in place for the Company functions to follow and comply with (eg: Delegations of Authority, Policies, Procedures and Directives..).
• Ensure that the Company integrates all corporate governance rules and comply with the relevant and applicable Laws & Regulations.
• Advise the Management and employees with the Regulatory risk, assess and report the risks & breaches and how to monitor the same.
• Appointed by CEO as Secretary of the Executive Management to prepare, manage and finalize all Executive Management meetings.
• Manage the CEO’s corporate affairs and facilitate the Governance and/or Compliance requirements and make sure that a proper mechanism is in place.
• Produce Corporate Governance reports to be submitted to the CEO and Executive Management on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Prevent issues raised by auditors and maintain the compliance with the recommendations as appropriate.
Assistant Legal Manager:
• Draft and review Litigation memos and legal notices in both languages Arabic & English.
• Provide legal opinion about all existing and potential liabilities related to the Company’s Court cases/Rent Disputes.
• Draft/review and amend settlement agreements related to Disputes and other agreements/contracts in Arabic & French (as needed).
• Work with external counsels on Court cases by investigating the facts of cases and ensuring that all relevant information is provided and considered.
• Translate Legal documents and drafting letters in both languages Arabic & English.
• Advise internal departments about all legal and operational matters that incur in the execution of business.
• Analyze the risks and liabilities of the Court cases & Rent Disputes for internal use, maintaining reference files, conducting researches, collecting and analyzing evidence for the hearings.
• Assist in Corporate matters of the Group and its entities such as: renewal of trade licenses, notarization of Powers of Attorney, Articles of Incorporation..
• Provide assistance when needed in Arbitration cases with Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC).
• Identify appropriate laws, judicial decisions, legal articles and other materials that are relevant to assigned cases and maintain legal library of laws and regulations to ensure that the latest updates are noted and forwarded to specific departments with convenient assistance.
- Prepare the final legal documents such as memorandums of Court cases, correspondences and notices from drafts or dictated texts.
- Manage and update the Litigation cases and ensure proper indexing and filling of original legal documents in the office filling system.
- Assist the Senior Lawyer towards fulfilling his tasks.
- Assist in research and physical locations of legal materials in the law library publications pertinent to Court cases.
- Routing articles to Lawyers and other company officials.
- Managing calendar and assisting the line manager in his official meetings.
- Performing other clerical duties such as scheduling appointments, providing information to callers, taking dictation, composing and typing routine correspondence, reading and routing incoming mails.
Bachelor's Degree in Public Law