Senior Legal Advisor
BAE Systems Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :37 years, 4 Months
BAE Systems is the premier global defense and aerospace company where it considered the largest defense company in Europe and rank number two in the world. delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions and customer support services.
BAE Systems is developing an industrial capability in Saudi Arabia, involving the transfer of technology and expertise to resources located in the Kingdom. The aim is to enable equipment to be produced, maintained and supported here both for the needs of customers in the Kingdom and for the export market.
My duties as a (Senior Legal Advisor) were to Provide advice and opinions to the management regarding cases related to application of laws, implementation of regulations, and ministerial decisions relating to the scope of company activities, and Drafting regulations and various administrative decisions consistent with activities of (BAE), this also include providing legal opinion regarding any complications that they may encounter in the light of applicable laws and instructions in various legal fields.
WEC plays an important role in developing plants of binary production of water and electricity. It acts as a credible intermediate agent between the private sector producers and customers of such plants - Saudi electricity company (SEC) and Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC).
my responsibilities includes:
- Providing legal advisory and support services to the President and Vice-President.
- Dealing with all legal procedures in the company.
- Preparing and revising contracts and all legal documentations regarding Requests For Proposals (RFP) to minimize risk to WEC.
- Representing WEC in all legal matters.
- Performing secretary duties to the board of directors.
The duties which I was entrusted with were as follows:
- Providing legal opinions about all issues referred from his Excellency the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers.
- Providing opinions regarding all issues referred from the Court of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Bureau of Experts, and the General Committee of the Council.
- Executing final revision for documents of issues that would be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers.
- Reviewing all documents and decrees of the state general budget before forwarding to the Council to ensure the proneness of their content and wording.
- Preparing and drafting all written opinions pertaining to many government issues.
- Preparing and revising all types of documents and memos involving issues on the agenda of the weekly sessions of the Council of Ministers.
- Preparing reports about draft laws, regulations and international and bilateral agreements which would be brought before the Council of Ministers.
- Preparing comparison tables between currently applied laws and draft laws intended to be brought before the Council of Ministers.
- Preparing written opinions regarding divergence in views between the council of Ministers and the Shura Council in issues of common jurisdiction.
- Preparing notification letters issued by the General Secretariat involving activities of the Council of Ministers or the General Committee of the Council.
(SWCC) is a public independent organization specialized in the construction, operation and maintenance of water desalination and electrical power plants, pipe lines, pumping stations, water storage tanks, and residential compounds.
my duties as a (Legal Advisor) were:
- Providing advice and opinions to (SWCC) top management regarding cases related to application of laws, implementation of regulations, royal decrees, resolutions of the Council of Ministers and ministerial decisions relating to the scope of Corporation activities.
- Drafting regulations and various administrative decisions consistent with activities of (SWCC).
- Dealing with all departments of (SWCC) and providing legal opinion regarding any complications that they may encounter in the light of applicable laws and instructions in various legal fields.
- Dealing with all aspects of contracts of construction, services, maintenance, consultation services, and supply. In this regard I was assigned to the following:
• Dealing with the legal aspects of putting projects for bidding and opening sealed envelops to be presented to specialized technical committees to assign the proper bidder.
• Participating in committees negotiating with contractors to get best contractual conditions before concluding contracts.
• Providing advice and opinions to the Corporation top management about suitable procedures to be adopted regarding complications that may arise when implementing contracts.
•Dealing with various legal complications that may arise while implementing contracts such as (shipping, insurance, guarantees, subcontractors, inspection, contract delays, force majeure cases, taxes..etc)
•Assessing claims presented by contractors and changes in work orders that arise during implementation period.
- Representing (SWCC) in litigations before competent courts.
- Dealing with cases relating to application of Labor Law as 8000 of (SWCC) employees are subject to this Law. This includes providing legal advice to (SWCC) departments and litigate before competent labor committees.