Legal Counsel
APC LLC
Total years of experience :11 years, 8 Months
• The role involves the following responsibilities:
• Overview: The primary responsibility is to provide legal support to all business units forming part of APC;
• Commercial Contracts: Review and draft supply, sales & marketing, confidentiality, construction, services and consulting agreements. Review and draft the standard suite of construction documentation (including the necessary tendering suite, LOls, and LOAs) based on FIDIC to ensure its suitability with the requirements of APC;
• Template Agreement: Develop and update all the contractual templates required by the business and provide continuous training to the business units for their use and deployment to support the businesses' expansion plans;
• Procurement Department: Work closely with the Procurement team to settle, update and implement procurement guidelines, and procedures;
• Mechanisms for procurement of goods and services. Update tender documents used by the Procurement team and advice on any deviations from the standard documents;
• Review and advice on various correspondences and letters. Provide advice on defects liability obligations; and governmental matters;
• Role within APC's hierarchy: Support each business unit in achieving its commercial goals by providing legal advice and minimizing risk in respect of its commercial agreements;
• Enabled the APC’s to share best practices in relation to law, risk management, compliance and other areas of business interest.
• Insurance: Ensured that the total cost of risk is balanced between insurance premiums and acceptable deductibles;
• Advisory: Providing complex legal opinions concerning a wide variety of legal matters locally and internationally;
• Regulatory: Providing legal advice and guidance on a number of regulatory and compliance requirements in insurance, banking, including general advice on government licenses for the APCs business;
• Compliance: Took on the role of a compliance team leadership for the Company, dealt with the Company ongoing requirements and compliance issues with the Jordanian Securities Commission (JSC) and Jordanian Companies Control Department (CCD);
• Litigation and dispute resolution: Working with the litigation team on a number of dispute resolution cases including negotiations and settlements, in a wide variety of practices, such as; insurance, constructions and energy. Also, Preparing and representing the company on various kind of cases including Customs, Commercial and labor cases;
Commercial goals by providing legal advice and minimizing risk in respect of its commercial agreements, negotiations and contracts. Attend business meetings, when required, including tender opening meetings for appointment of contractors/ consultants;
The role requires a well-developed commercial mindset, proactive with strong analytical, drafting, negotiating, communication skills, ability to explain and advise on complex legal issues effectively, good inter personal skill
Contract Specialist
• Contract Compliance
• Contract Interpretation • Contract Negotiation
• Contract Gap & Risk Analysis • Contract Drafting • Contract Change Request • NDA Drafting
Responsible for reviewing legacy contracts and flag provisions which were either of high risk or was against our client’s Contract Negotiation Strategy (CNS).
Developed and implemented Standardization of Contract Term to effectively manage Contract Negotiation Strategy (CNS).
Defining and recommending capture of important terms in the clients’ contracts which promoted visibility of various clauses in those contracts.
Identification and evaluation of the rights and obligations of parties to a contract.
Lengevin Morris Smith LLP Barristers& Solicitors
Jan 2015- Aug 2017
• Contract Management
Classification of the types of contracts which in turn helps identification of the risky contract terms and conditions which deviate from defined standards.
Responsible for incorporating the changes which are made to existing Contract as well as being carried forward in accordance with the said Contract Change Request Form.
Perform Contract Interpretation of various Contracts and Contractual clauses, ensure certain clauses are specifically laid down without any ambiguities such as Pricing, Service Level Agreement, Benchmarking.
In one instance, I had the privileged to be a part of pilot project with respect to technological advancement in the Tax Department. With the help of the IT department, I codified the disruption of the Tax file. Therefore, this revolutionized the tax system, the finance minister awarded me for my exemplary participation.
Tax Auditor at Jordanian Department of Tax June 2010- Feb 2011.
Legal Internship in Langevin Morris Smith LLP Barristers& Solicitors Jan 2015- Jaly 2015.
Member of the board of the Jordan Canada Association.
Coordinator of Services and Counseling at E-Financial.
Job Description:
Researching the applicable bill and provisions.
Negotiate a settlement with taxpayer.
Prepare cases file under the guidance of Tax General Attorney.
Review the merit of the cases vis-à-vis tax dispute with the in-duty tax auditor.
Negotiate and draft Tax convention before sending it to the Prime Minister’s office
Business law in Global Context
B. A Majoring in Law -Yarmouk University 70.6 % ( Good)
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