Fatimah Leva, Corporate Lawyer

Fatimah Leva

Corporate Lawyer

Cobalt DMCC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, Commerce Law
Experience
8 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 5 Months

Corporate Lawyer at Cobalt DMCC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2022

•Providing full support of business activity of the Company including License Renewal, Adding/Amending License Activities, Establishment card renewal, updating information at the companies portal, changing of the Manager, making amendments into the MOA;
•Drafting and vetting different kind of contracts, statutory documents including but not limited to: Memorandum of Understanding, Shareholder Resolutions, Memorandum and Articles of Association, Share Sale Agreement, Custodian (Side) Agreement, Fiduciary (Trust) Agreement, Loan Agreement, Employment Agreement, Power of Attorney, Authorization Letters, etc.;
• Providing legal assistance with the share transfer, entities legal form conversion (from Civil Company to LLC) and drafting the relevant documents to affect the same;
•Providing full legal support with the Foreign Statutory documents attestation/legalization for the purpose of the share sale/transfer;
•Communication with the authority regarding different issues arising during companies’ business activity, submitting requests for clarifications (DED, DMCC, JAFZA, SAIF ZONE, RAKICC and other);
•Coordination with the external companies/lawyers regarding offshore companies’ business activities and other tasks related to the companies business projects.

Legal Assistant at Abdallah Al Kaabi Advocates and Legal Consultants
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2020 to November 2022

Drafting and vetting different kind of contracts including but not limited to: Share Sale Agreement, Investment Agreement, Joint Venture Agreement, Franchise Agreement, Distributorship Agreement, Supply Agreement, Lease Agreement, Employment Agreement, etc.
Providing legal assistance with share transfer, entities legal form conversion, setting up offshore, onshore companies, conversion branches into subsidiaries and drafting the relevant documents to effect the same, namely: Shareholders Resolutions, Memorandum of Association, Amendment to the Memorandum of Association, Shareholders Agreement;
Communication with the authority regarding different issues arising during companies’ business activity, submitting requests for clarifications;
Doing legal due diligence and drafting the due diligence report for the Client;
Providing legal analyze of Agreements, Corporate Documents and Legislation;
Providing Legal Consultations for the Clients;
Drafting different kind of legal documentation (Letters, Power of Attorney);
Communicating with the Clients regarding their concerns, queries, arranging meetings;

General Manager Assistant at AMIS FZE
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2018 to March 2020

clarify and analyze tenders/bids;

•Preparation, Coordination and Drafting commercial proposals and its submitting the same to the Clients;

•Drafting, reviewing, making appropriate amendments into the contracts and providing its further communication with the Clients;
•Ensuring that tender, commercial proposal and contract conforms all requirements within parameters set up by the Client;
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining on-going projects/rewarded tenders as to its updates, expirations and renewal.
•Drafting letters, correspondence, purchase orders and issuing relevant tax invoices with further payments monitoring;
• Tax returns preparation and its submitting to the FTA quarterly;
•Opening corporate bank accounts;

•Update current office documentation up to legislative requirements;

•Coordination to outsource legal/tax adviser;
•Communication with the municipality and performing licenses prolongation, contracts legalization.
•Making translation of the letters, data sheets, certificates, passports of the items from the English into Russian language and vise versa;

•Responsible for maintaining database;
•Handling clients telephone and email inquiries regarding the company’s provided services/supplied Goods;
•Arranging medical insurance for the employees;

Abdalla Alnakhi Advocates and Legal Consultants

Contract Coordinator at EMIRATES GROUP
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2018 to June 2018

proofreading and its further digitizing; data evaluation, data entry;
•Contracts observation and analyzing with its further written reports preparation regarding quality of already concluded contracts;
•Contracts/information consolidation;

Legal assistant
  • January 2017 to February 2018

legal notices, agreements, power of attorneys, letters, legal correspondence and other internal documentation (Code of Conduct, Company’s policy);
•Conducting legal research and investigation;
•Instruct parties on the court appearance schedule and ensure that the litigation system/ software is updated correctly
•Providing written legal consultations, legal analyses and opinions to the clients regarding different legal issues;
•Providing legal analysis to the senior manager regarding new legislation;
•Communication with clients via phone and emails, preparation reports for them and update them regarding litigation progress;
•Participation in negotiations;
•Database and correspondence maintenance;
•Providing legal support for senior lawyers;
•Handling petty cash, managing payroll, controlling company’s income and expenses, issuing invoices, receipts, providing financial monthly reports to senior manager regarding expecting expenses/incurred expenses and expecting income/received income;
•Handling HR duties: consideration of CV, communicating with potential candidates, conducting interviews with them, preparation offer letters and other documentation for obtaining visa for shortlisted candidates.

Lawyer at International Business School
  • Ukraine
  • July 2015 to February 2016

writs, claims, legal opinions and legal consultations;
•Drafted and altered contracts of services provided;
•Analyzed foreign countries’ legislation;
•Provided support in e-commerce projects, intellectual property projects.

Assistant at Doka Group LLC
  • Ukraine
  • July 2011 to April 2012

registration and re-registration of business entities;
•Made alterations to statutory documents of legal entities, changes in the management or location of a legal entity, increase/reduction of statutory capital, and other registration functions.

Education

Master's degree, Commerce Law
  • at Lviv Academy of Commerce
  • May 2015

courses: Intensive English course" September, 2019 Bath, United Kingdom • Studying Arabic language (Intermediate level)

Specialties & Skills

Legal Support
Legal Advice
Due Diligence
Contract Review
Contract Drafting
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
WRITING
DRAFTING
MEETING FACILITATION
DELIVERY
INVESTMENTS
PROTOCOLS
ADMINISTRATION
ATTORNEY

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
Russian
Expert
Ukrainian
Expert

Hobbies

  • Reading, studing