Head Of Legal
Daikin Middle East and Africa
Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months
Head Of Legal and Compliance Middle East and Africa region
• Provide legal support to all the Group companies based in the Middle East
and Africa region. Identify legal risks and issues, ways to mitigate them, and
provide suggestions to the line manager to manage risks and proactively
•Set, enforce and manage effective incorporation of companies within the MEA
region.
•Successfully established the local legal function in the MENA region.
•Implemented the European HQ policies and compliances after making the
required modifications to comply with the local laws and regulations
•Responsible for the provision of legal services to the Company, including the
management of the team and external legal resources.
•Drafting and reviewing legal documents and preparing business contracts.
•Drafting and reviewing EPC and FIDIC contracts.
•Drafting and reviewing company policies and company rules
•Drafting and reviewing settlement agreements.
•Managing all commercial litigations and any other disputes
•Implementing the HQ policies and contributing to its design to be enforceable
within the Middle East and Africa region
•Acquisitions shares and assets deals / Due diligence analysis
•Managing the Trade Control, Compliances, Confidentiality and Intellectual
Property Rights
•Managing the contracts of the regional network of distributors and local
dealers with different incoterms
•Contracting and Subcontracting agreements
•HR Legal requirements
•Managing the legal requirements for the affiliates and subsidiaries
•Periodic reports for the European HQ and the Japanese Mother Company
•Implementing and updating the Ringi rules.
•Supporting the annual internal and external audits.
•Establishing new companies, branches and rep offices within the MENA
region.
•Participates in the annual development of our areas of work.
•Recommended improvements to operating policies and procedures.
•Risk management and legal analyses.
•Managing the affiliates' Legal Liaisons within the region.
Professional Work experience:
ThyssenKrupp Elevator UAE May 2008 - Present
Legal Advisor
• Legally representing the company and the company manger in commercial license.
• Represent and show on behalf of the company at courts.
• Plead and defend at court for all company cases.
• Implementing and issuing necessary regulations in full compliance with Municipality and Government regulations throughout the UAE.
• Implementing government regulations in all premises of the company to ensure zero penalties.
• Implement complete legal compliance throughout the emirates and update the status of the company to comply with any new law.
• Reviewing and revising procedures for legal transactions with Government bodies and implementing them effectively throughout the organization.
• Managed PR Officers across the company branches.
• Drafting, preparing and reviewing new agreements, GPA, SPA, MOA and contracts.
• Formulating internal process to meet the government procedures.
• Conferred with department heads involved with proposed projects to ensure cooperation and further define nature of project
• Negotiating with clients to avoid any disputes
• Drafting all legal notices and attesting them at the notary public
• Reviewing and drafting all the commercial agreements.
• Maintaining the company legal norms, compliance, Antitrust Law and the anti-corruption.
• Updating company head quarter by all updates occurs in laws.
• Supporting the collection department.
Legal Officer
• Reporting directly to the group MD to plan and implement monthly actions in line with the growth strategy.
• Complete coordination of Development and Production activities of the Administration department.
• Trained and managed the team work and achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
• Analyzed data processing requirements to plan data processing system that will provide capabilities required for projected workloads.
• Determined the capabilities required for data processing projects and projected work load.
• Designed follow-up system to secure transaction flow.
• Monitored the functioning of equipment to ensure system operated in conformance with specifications.
• Analyzed department workflow and workers' job duties to recommend reorganization or departmental realignment within company.
• Lead all transactions and communications with government bodies throughout the UAE (over 500 transactions per month).
• Determined information requirements of management, investors and owners.
• Implemented organizational policies, purposes and goals throughout the company.
• Drafting, designed and produced new projects or sector developing.
• Analyzed time requirements, cost constraints and the need for legal formalities.
• Structured and maintained a legal environment.
• Organized and implemented any new law, resulting in companies procedures.
• Conferred with department heads involved with proposed projects to ensure cooperation and further define nature of project.
• Determined boundaries and priorities of new projects and discussed system capacity and equipment acquisitions.
• Formulated internal process to increase efficiency with fulfilling government procedures.
• In charge of setting up new companies from their initiation up to functional level.
• Planned and implemented Emirate policy group wide all over the UAE.
• Reviewed site feasibility studies and established rules of work in conformance with government regulations.
• Purchased and maintained smart forms system and E-dirham.
2003 Alexandria University (Faculty of Law) Bachelor of Law
2000 The Higher Institute of Business Management Computer Science, Alexandria - Egypt Bachelor of Business Management & Computer Science