LEGAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR
Advance Engineering Trading and contracting
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :25 years, 3 أشهر
• Advise and handle litigations relevant to the Trademarks, Commercial & Civil, Banking, Rent, Business, Arbitration, Labor, Land, Mortgage, and Criminal Laws.
• Practice draft all types of contracts, lawsuits, and litigation, including but not limited to Civil, Rentals, Commercial, Labor, Real-estate issues, Administrative, Criminal lawsuits, and Financial claims.
• Write defense papers, appeal, and cassation.
• Advise the Managing Director, CEO, Board, and the Executive Management Team on Legal matters, liabilities, and exposures.
• Provide legal advice on corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and new project development.
• Review, negotiate and finalize joint ventures and strategic partnership agreements (in Arabic & English languages) considering all legal procedures.
• Monitor and communicate to the CEO and Executive Management Team the governmental laws and regulations’ implications on the Company’s projects.
• Review reports and determines risk factors to safeguard the interests of the Company.
• Review the major contracts for the whole Organization (i.e., J.V., M.O.U., major purchasing agreements, project agreements, credit agreements, Lease agreements) and ensure their legal soundness.
• Administer and follow-up on all lawsuits, in coordination with concerned official bodies while representing the Company in the litigation and other legal proceedings.
• Draft, establish, register, resolve, and liquidating the Article of Association of the companies.
• Coordinate with external Legal advisors and Law firms, if needed.
• Conduct internal investigations with the Company’s staff.
• Head of a company’s legal team.
• Handle strategic leadership and work closely with legal staff, the board of directors, and company executives.
• Work on license agreements, advising company management on legal issues, supervising department employees, and managing legal affairs.
• Work with outside lawyers and regulatory agencies in the industry regulations.
• Provide leadership and expert advice to Senior Executives and internal and external stakeholders to facilitate the management and resolution of a diverse range of legal, regulatory and compliance matters which impact the Organization’s capacity to achieve its strategic goals
• Direct the research, analysis, and interpretation of complex policy, legal and regulatory issues, to prepare high quality and articulate submissions, reviews, and recommendations that add value to decision makers, enhance the decision making process and improve the efficacy of the Group’s activities and impact on stakeholders
• Keep abreast of contemporary legal advancements and develop innovative policy and legal options in response to challenging operational requirements to expand the Group’s ability to effectively deliver its core business and enhance the experience and outcomes for the community and stakeholders it serves.
• Lead and monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal function’s service delivery and day-to-day operations, to ensure policy, legal and regulatory compliance are met, and that risk is identified, minimised and managed
• Assess and respond to the impact of changes in the operating environment on relevant legislation, legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks to ensure a high level of integration with the broader context, including the Group’s direction and role within government
• Advise and handle litigations relevant to the Trademarks, Commercial & Civil, Banking, Rent, Business, Arbitration, Labor, Land, Mortgage, and Criminal Laws.
• Practice draft all types of contracts, lawsuits, and litigation, including but not limited to Civil, Rentals, Commercial, Labor, Real-estate issues, Administrative, Criminal lawsuits, and Financial claims.
• Write defense papers, appeal, and cassation.
• Advise the Managing Director, CEO, Board, and the Executive Management Team on Legal matters, liabilities, and exposures.
• Provide legal advice on corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and new project development.
• Review, negotiate and finalize joint ventures and strategic partnership agreements (in Arabic & English languages) considering all legal procedures.
• Monitor and communicate to the CEO and Executive Management Team the governmental laws and regulations’ implications on the Company’s projects.
• Review reports and determines risk factors to safeguard the interests of the Company.
• Review the major contracts for the whole Organization (i.e., J.V., M.O.U., major purchasing agreements, project agreements, credit agreements, Lease agreements) and ensure their legal soundness.
• Administer and follow-up on all lawsuits, in coordination with concerned official bodies while representing the Company in the litigation and other legal proceedings.
• Draft, establish, register, resolve, and liquidating the Article of Association of the companies.
• Coordinate with external Legal advisors and Law firms, if needed.
• Conduct internal investigations with the Company’s staff.
Regency Group is one of Qatar’s oldest and largest business entities encompassing several divisions across a spectrum of industries and a portfolio that includes several internationally acclaimed brands. Through re-investment of profits, recruitment of talented professionals, and embarking on several joint venture schemes with leading global enterprises, the Regency Group today offers diverse services to overseas companies with interests in Qatar and across the Arabian Gulf States.
Currently, the Group boasts a substantial turn-over, and its varied commercial activities have resulted in the Regency Group’s recognition as a successful and dynamic regional corporation.
The subsidiaries encompass:
1. Al-Asmakh Real Estate.
2. Oman Insurance Company.
3. Regency Real Estate Investment Trust.
4. Regency Travel & Tours.
5. Regency Holidays.
6. Regency Fleets.
7. Angsana Spa.
8. B/Attitude Spa Doha.
9. Al-Asmakh Facilities Management.
10. Regency Pools.
11. Emirates Kitchen.
12. D.T.Z
13. Skywall Aluminum.
14. Forty-Three other companies.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide legal representation to the Organization, support the work of the Organization, and manage the full range of legal strategies and responsibilities.
• Set the strategy and goals for the Legal team in alignment with the broader organizational goals.
• Lead complex legal projects that span legal, business, and functional boundaries (e.g., cross geographies, subject matter areas, jurisdictions, organizations, and business models)
• Provide counsel to staff in all departments on a variety of complex issues.
• Identify, research, and analyze legal issues that affect the Organization and its activities at the local, and international levels associated with the Organization’s activities, ongoing operations, and strategic initiatives, including but not limited to, revenue diversification, and jurisdictional and programmatic expansion.
• Develop and implement staff-friendly plans, systems, and procedures
• Develop and provide training on legal issues, processes and policies to multi-level audiences in all departments in Country Offices and Global Offices
• Supervise Legal Affairs staff and oversee a department that can appropriately support Room to Read utilizing a mix of paid staff, interns, paid outside counsel, pro bono outside counsel, volunteers and support from other non-profit organizations
• Develop and manage the legal department budget
• Special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Coordinate and monitor all activities within the Firm.
• Check over completed documents for accuracy and quality, hold a staff meeting, and ensure a lawyer has all necessary paperwork to take to court.
• Responsible for assigning tasks and ensuring tasks are completed on time and in compliance with the quality guidelines.
• Preparing subpoenas and other legal documents
• Handle legal research.
• Prepare memos and other correspondence.
• Creating client files and training new staff
• Meeting clients and deal with them on the Lawsuits and the Office fees.
• Select and appoint the teamwork of the Firm.
• Represent the Firm before the official authorities.
• Self-owned Legal Advising Services office, Provide Legal Guidance to clients, whether they’re individuals or organizations. This can include general legal advice on best practices for compliance, input on business decisions and contract negotiations, and legal strategies for litigation and other legal activities.
• Represent Clients at hearings and trial, presents arguments to the Judge.
• Conduct Legal Research to determine the relevance to the client’s current concerns and locate information on specific laws pertaining to the client’s activities.
• Draft Legal Correspondence related to the client’s activities, which can include statements, contracts, or agreements, ensuring that agreements are readable and enforceable and that they represent their client’s best interests.
• Ensure compliance that the clients comply with laws and guidelines related to their business or other activities, providing legal guidance and advice, the legal counsel also needs to anticipate changing laws and codes that the client may not be aware of and take action to ensure that the client does not violate these laws.
Clients:
• Multi Pharma Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals - Legal personhood is (S.A.E), and it has branches in all governorates of Egypt.
• Solvay Pharmaceutical Company, Egypt Branch - Foreign Medicines Company engaged in the distribution of Medicines in the Middle East.
• Soviet Garments Company - Legal personhood company solidarity.
• Arabian Construction Company - Contracting Firm and legal entity company limited partnership.
• Advising on and handling litigation relating to Trademarks, Sharia, Commercial, Civil, Banking Law, Labor, Marine, Business, Arbitration, Contracts, Land, Mortgage, and Criminal Laws.
• Organize future trainee events across the Firm offices.
• Keep in touch with successful candidates before they start their training contracts.
• Responsible for a summer placement candidate as part of the Company’s vacation scheme for a week in the summer, and this involves managing and assisting them with legal work, as wellOfficeowing them the social side of the Firm.
• Attend events to promote our vacation scheme and training contract, such as law fairs and our Insight Evenings.
• Work with our Employment, Commercial Litigation, and Debt Recovery teams.
• Draft legal documents and agreements, as well as reports, running files, completions of transactions, and having direct client contact.
• Draft and manage court documents, lodge documents at court, prepare bundles of documents for court or meetings, producing notes for court hearings or meetings, and appearing in court.
• Achieved quality of work supported by the supervisor and the teams I have worked with.
• Select and appoint the teamwork of the Office.
• Litigation and to make the defence before the courts.
• Represent the Office before the official authorities.
Litigation Manager