Legal And Compliance Manager
FADAAT MEDIA
Total years of experience :14 years, 1 Months
• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement legal strategies for accomplishing the KPIs to increase profitability and firm performance.
• Legal Guidelines: Set up appropriate legal guidelines and templates to ensure the business-led as per laws & legal regulations.
• Legal Advisory: Deliver legal advice on resolving complex matters and handling compliance initiatives. Provide legal advice on, evaluating, and updating policies and studies related to employment, commercial, corporate, real estate and civil.
• Legal Operations: Handle all civil and criminal matters, company, contractual agreements, and labour issues. Overlook overall practice & business, legal implications of internal procedures, and revise the draft agreements to comply with the legal needs.
• Compliance Management: Deliver support in maintaining compliance and corporate governance matters to comply with laws and regulations, develop the share book of shareholders, and associate with the regulator and financial market.
• Contract Agreements: Review, draft, and negotiate business-related agreements, including non-disclosure, supply, cooperation, distribution, agency, services, joint ventures, insurance, management, promotion & financial contracts.
• Legal Research: Conduct legal research and review the company's litigation strategy pertaining to legal actions.
• Legal Proceedings: Prepare the plaints, written statements, affidavits, writ petitions and appeals for various legal proceedings, finalizing with advocates and providing in-house legal advice on and assisting senior associates in the preparation of cases.
• Cases Management: Advocate court cases, including commercial, employment, tenancy disputes and construction, prepare and submit legal writs to courts.
• Liaison & Coordination: Liaise with and advise multiple law firms in Jordan, Qatar, Egypt, Tunis, Lebanon, and the UK
• Board Operations: Deliver consultancy on board-related secretarial duties, including drafting board resolutions, minutes, invitations and agendas, proxies, waivers and other related documents.
• Network Management: Drive efforts in building and administering cross-border legal networks.
• Team Management: Deliver detailed legal guidance to the staff on all matters that affect the company.
• Policies & Procedures: Play a stellar role in assessing and maintaining the company's internal policies and procedures according to the changes in legislation or regulations (including the company's group compliance policy).
• Corporate Migration Process from UK to Qatar: handling and advice for transfer the operation for the UK company to Qatar.
• Entrusted with the overall accountability of filing & defending cases, handling complaints and grievances & meeting the statutory & legal compliances of various legal & judicial provisions.
• Represented the companies in court cases, advocate on the company’s behalf, and execute legal decisions.
• Delivered legal advice on all legal issues and risks to company market organisations in line with the company policies and procedures. Drafted, reviewed and negotiated contracts and agreements.
• Held responsible for handling civil & criminal cases on all specialities, drafting contracts and agreements, and commercial consulting. Advised the senior management and teams on the potential legal risks.
• Played a stellar role in developing the work regulations for different firms and corporations in Jordan.
• Handled the registration of trademarks, intellectual property, trade names, and various types of company innovations.
• Set the commercial companies, and develop the agenda and minutes of meetings.
• Actively deal with the legal formalities related to land/house/car sale, rent or purchase.
• Coordinate the renewal of permits of the municipality, commercial registration and chamber and other governmental officials.
• Involved in drafting the correspondence and attaining approval from government sections.
• Worked as the individual & corporate clients’ representative in Lawsuits, grievances, complaints, Mediation, Arbitration and family court. Developed and reviewed the agreement terms for clients. Contributed to pleading over 200 legal cases.
• Played a stellar role in preparing and finalizing the out-of-court settlement agreements.
• Entrusted with the accountability of drafting and arranging lawsuit and legal memos, notices, pleadings, briefs, objections, articles, power of attorney, attorney-client fee agreements, and other legal works.
• Majorly engaged in assessing, drafting, amending and negotiating agreements and contracts.
• Consulted individual & corporate clients on a wide range of civil and commercial matters.
• Recommended the clients for their legal rights and obligations and consulted on minimizing legal risks.
• Dexterously steered the complete litigation process for each case in full.
• Identified cases ramifications by observing the statutes, decisions, regulations, and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies
• Supervised the development of new legislation in Jordan and consulted corporate clients on its implementation.
• L.L.M. (Master's Degree) in Private Law from Middle East University in 2012.
is the professional law degree awarded after completing undergraduate education