VP, Legal Advisory Manager
The National Commercial Bank (NCB)
Total years of experience :23 years, 6 Months
➢ Providing Advice on legal issues to all the departments of the bank (Corporate Banking Sector, Financial Restucture Department, Retail Banking Sector, Treasury Department and Consumer Finance Sector, Procurement).
➢ Supporting Corporate and Treasury team in designing new products/structured products, reviewing their respective processes ensuring the compliance with competent laws, regulations and concerned Master Agreements, and drafting their necessary agreements and documentation.
➢ Reviewing all agreements made with third parties by the Corporate Banking Sector before obtaining credit approvals.
➢ Reviewing Documents, contracts and, syndications presented by the customer to the Corporate Banking Sector and Financial Restucture Department.
➢ Managing the Legal Advisory Support team of lawyers who legally support the Retail, Corporate, Treasury and Procurements teams.
Preparing necessary documentation and drafting and reviewing template contracts relating to
Credit approvals.
➢ Playing a role of business partner of Corporate Banking Sector, Treasury Department to excel in performance and placement mitigating and managing involved risks with specific focus in supporting Private Equity Investment team.
➢ Providing legal support regarding Islamic finance products to excel in service quality, convenience and innovation for highest customer satisfaction.
➢ Providing legal support to NCB’s regional branches in Bahrain, Lebanon, and Turkey.
➢ Sustaining Legal compliance and working closely with the Bank’s Compliance team to ensure that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, Corporate Governance rules, and NCB’s policies are met, namely ensuring that the Anti-Money Laundry requirements are maintained within the Bank’s documentation and transactions with its customers.
➢ Representing Legal Division in the VAT working group in liaising witht the designated Tax Advisor, through which all the Banks’ standard agreements were reviewed to comply with the newly implemented VAT law.
➢ Playing a leading role in cooperation with the Head of Legal with regard to big projects followed directly by the high management and the Board of Director such as the Bank’s first IPO.
Job responsibilities Include:
Ensure that the Bank has effective Legal & Regulatory risk control frameworks and processes in accordance with the Egyptian laws and Barclays Group Board Governance Standards.
Support all business areas and functions in relation to their Legal risks and issues and provide services required to achieve their business and functional objectives.
Manage and undertake a prime responsibility for the legal risk function of the legal department to mitigate Legal risks with regard to all banking operations through the following controls:
• Ensure with Operational Risk team that the guidelines of Basel II are met concerning Bank's operational Risks.
• Check by sampling that standard legal document (i.e. those used by Business without involvement of Legal) in use have been created, signed off and reviewed in accordance with the requirements of the Policy. Check by sampling non standard legal documents entered by the Bank in each quarter in 2 to 3 functions to check that they have been entered in compliance with the Policy.
Manage Retail team of lawyers to provide Legal assistance to all branches' daily queries in timely fashion.
Provide Legal consultancy to Corporate Banking Division regarding various contracts and syndications.
Review the all types of business contracts and agreements with third party to ensure the legality of such contracts and avoid any potential risk.
Establish a proactive business partnering relationship with each of the main business areas to understand their present needs and future direction and to deliver Legal solutions by early environment in new initiatives.
Manage and undertake a prime responsibility for all Company Secretarial tasks and roles to ensure that all Board of Directors meetings and AGM/EGM meetings are held in compliance with the governing laws and regulations.
Providing Advice on legal issues to all the departments of the bank.
Reviewing all agreements made with a third party by the Corporate Banking Department before obtaining a credit approval.
Reviewing Documents, contracts and, syndications presented by the customer to the Corporate Banking Department.
Preparing necessary documentation and drafting contracts relating to credit approvals.
Reviewing the Legality of transaction and consulting the Corporate Banking Department or the Credit Analysis Section in order to assist in drafting a recommendation opinion concerning such a transaction.
Coordinating with the external lawyer of the bank concerning all the litigations by and against the bank managed by his office.
Attending Meetings with Recovery Department and with the indebted Customers in order to recover unpaid amount.
Providing training and assistance to other departments in the bank when a new Law occurs.
Sustaining Legal compliance and working closely with the Bank's compliance team to ensure that the Central Bank of Egypt regulations, Corporate Governance rules, and Credit Agricole Egypt’s rules are met.
Act as Corporate Governance Officer/Co-Officer in co-ordination with the legal Department Head.
Advising in negotiating and drafting Corporate Agreements.
Coordinating with external law firms concerning cases they handling.
Researching and conducting studies on legal issues arising in conjunction with corporate operations.
Attending regulatory meetings for licensing.
Preparing bids and tenders’ documents.
Representing Telecom Egypt infront of legal entities.
Guaranteeing the right execution and compliance with legal practice of business operations.
Drafting, and reviewing the Infrastructure Licenses Agreement.
Drafting, reviewing, and translating various Contracts in connection with conducting the day to day business of the Company, Example: Non - Disclosure Agreement, Landing Party Agreement, Reseller Agreement, Consortium Agreement, and Interconnection Agreement (Prepaid Services, Public Services, Mobile Services, Vsat Services).
Providing the Corporate decision makers and managers with the legal advice in various legal issues.
•Drafting Employment contracts.
•Drafting and Translating Corporate agreements.
•Establishing new companies.
•Enrolling new companies in the commercial register.
•Preparing and translating minutes of general assemblies’ and B.O.D meetings.
•Negotiating Articles of Association with multinational companies.
•Reporting directly to the Chairman.
Litigation
•Appearing and pleading before tribunals and courts of first instance.
•Preparing court documents, including memoranda and evidence files.
Areas
•Procedural law for court related matters.
•Drafting and revision of Concession contracts.
My GPA is 3