General Counsel
United Arab Emirates
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :24 years, 9 أشهر
Khalifa University, a research intensive institution, was founded to complement Abu Dhabi's 2030 vision.
Responsibilities:
•Heading and managing the internal legal function.
• Working with Abu Dhabi stakeholders to draft the Emiri Decree (No. 5, 2017) to create Khalifa University of Science and Technology, a new university formed through the combining the legacy institutions Masdar Institute; Petroleum Institute; and Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research
•Functioning as the secretary of the Board of Trustees and ensuring operations of University within the appropriate legal governance framework
•Providing legal advice to the Board of Trustees, President, management, and the faculty of the University on business, legal and public policy issues.
•Responsible for the identification and management of legal risks across the University.
•Identifying and prioritizing the response to various areas of legal risk.
•Formulating framework for legal policies within the Office of General Counsel.
•Overseeing the development of the legal framework and governance to establish Khalifa Enterprises, a holding company through which the University can operate.
•Developing the necessary legal framework to establish Khalifa Innovation Center as a wholly owned subsidiary whose mission is to accelerate the establishment of high-tech companies.
•Oversee the standardization of terms and conditions for all research contracts, grants, and agreements for the University’s research intensive focus and objectives.
•Oversee the standardization and implementation of terms and conditions for all MOUs, licensing agreements, technology transfer agreements, and intellectual property protection documentation.
•Coordinating the University’s compliance and response to Emirate and federal agency requirements, e.g., GSEC, ADEK, HRA, FANR, HAAD, etc.
•Building and maintaining effective and strong relationships with external legal partner and ensuring constructive outcomes on behalf of the University's stakeholders.
Applauded for successfully negotiating contractual terms and conditions with the project operators, contractors and consultants for smooth execution of project activities.
Responsibilities:
•Entrusted with the responsibility of handling all the legal aspects of two major projects i.e. Jahiziyah and Rabadan Academy.
•Ensuring compliance with organizational requirements.
•Directing commercial negotiations with service providers in view of short & long term corporate governance development and organizational objectives.
Successfully served as board member of 3 subsidiaries, member of 6 Board Advisory Committees, and member of two Executive Committees, Employee Recognition Program (ERP) Committee and the Performance Enhancement Reward Scheme (PERS) Committee.
•Successfully identified and defined risks and opportunities created by envisaged projects at planning stage.
Responsibilities:
•Establishing onshore companies in the Morocco, Algeria, Belarus, Jordan and Syria, Yemen jurisdictions.
•Advising and counseling the board of directors (holding level) on company's overall legal structure and ensuring the legal documents in compliance with existing legislation and overall corporate strategy.
•Directing the registration of the trademarks, related license agreements and advising on the settlement of trademark disputes or misuse by other companies.
•Leading the commercial negotiations with company suppliers, distributors and Government relations.
•Representing the company's interest in court, arbitration and other organizations.
•Ensuring legal and human resources activities in compliance with regulatory and corporate policies, procedures, standards and Corporate Governance.
•Key person for meeting the company's objectives by outsourcing, employing, monitoring and reporting on the external legal services and consultation for the holding company and subsidiaries.
•Exercising operational control and conducting operation and performance reviews.
Successfully drafted and validated partnership agreements, franchise agreements, mergers & acquisitions and contracts in order to preserve the interests of the organization in all operating countries.
•Credited for researching the unique legal issues impacting the organization by identifying applicable statutes, judicial decisions and codes.
Responsibilities:
•Managing the overall legal establishment of the company's projects locally and internationally.
•Responsible for negotiating and securing hotels management agreements within the hospitality industry.
•Conducting due diligence of the corporate structure and the contractual commitments of the company at all levels and ensuring due observance and compliance with local regulations.
•Involved in planning and assigning tasks, setting deadlines, monitoring results and quality, providing training and resolving grievances and conflicts.
•Liaise and coordinating with other departments heads including Finance, HR, Admin and PR to develop long term relations and communication.
•Conducting pre-litigation work to minimize risks and maximize legal rights.
•Identifying training needs for the company and its affiliates on substantive legal topics and organizing proper training to bridge the skill gaps.
Successfully standardized real-estate and mortgage agreements and de-materialized and pledged shares in ADSM & DFM.
Responsibilities:
•Responsible for preparing facility agreements and facility advice letters for credit facility accounts to customers.
•Prepared security documents including the land agreements, loans secured by shares, mortgage agreements, loans secured by joint guaranties and corporate loan agreements)..
•Making liaison with relationship managers to scrutinize and perfect all documents related to credit facilities.
Successfully built and maintained strong relations with foreign clients.
•Commended by the Management for Legal translation from Arabic to English and vice versa.
Responsibilities:
•Setup and registered companies in accordance with the companies' law in QIZ areas.
•Responsible for conducting the legal studies to all agreements, contracts and offers form the institute clients.
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