Legal Counsel
Incomlend
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :9 years, 7 أشهر
• Draft, negotiate and revise general commercial contracts, NDAs, MOUs, term sheets, RFQs, POAs, policies, minutes, letters, notices, board resolutions, amendments and correspondences etc.
• Conduct legal and regulatory analysis and collaborate with authorities and regulators.
• Collaborate with external lawyers to oversee and manage collections and recovery processes across multiple jurisdictions.
• Support claim filing, liaise with insurance companies, and manage company operations from legal perspective to promote business growth.
• Participate with risk, compliance, and operations teams to conduct Due Diligence, KYCs/AML checks, assessments, and ensure adherence to relevant policies and processes.
• Support and oversee secretarial matters, corporate obligations, legal research, and diverse legal tasks related to global expansion and service provision in multiple jurisdictions.
• Ensure full compliance with all applicable, laws, regulations, and standards, including relevant requirements of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and other regulators and laws within Singapore, UAE and other relevant jurisdictions.
• Undertake duties, powers, and functions within and outside Singapore and UAE as required by the company.
• Established company head office in DMCC including business bank Account opening, Office Leasing, Employment Contract as per new UAE Labour Laws and making VISA arrangements for all stakeholders in UAE.
• Work on corporate and shareholding structuring as per need of the organization.
• Reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, outsourcing contracts, POA’s, Board Resolutions, NDA’s, ancillary documents and corporate secretarial matters.
• Drafted terms & condition and data privacy Policy for Zeitgeistatwork DMCC online portal.
• Partnering with all key business areas, in particular the IT Security team, to ensure data privacy issues are considered at the outset of new projects and initiatives.
• Implement and ensure compliance with new UAE data privacy laws and data security, processing and protection across the group.
• Assisting organization in their day-to-day legal work and advise management on legal, regulatory and compliance risks.
• Provide counsel on legal matters involving the MENA distribution, including but limited to
distributor agreements, variations, and terminations.
• Support Aftermarket Team by negotiating and drafting supplier and logistics agreements.
• Support sales and procurement teams by negotiating and drafting agreements.
• Responsible for coordinating and advising on employment matters against Zoomlion including
unfair dismissal claims and Support Zoomlion against public liability and employers’ liability claims.
• Responsible for Legal, Compliance and Corporate governance in all MENA region and maintain GCCs’ property portfolios and advised on matters including office leases, licenses, rent reviews and environmental issues.
• Track regular license requirements, filing regulatory reports and regulatory submissions, including management of daily communications with the regulators.
• Manage all assigned licensing requirements; Perform research on the applicable and relevant regulations & legislations, and licensing process and requirements to operate in a certain country for expansions.
• Manage the submission of necessary regulatory requirement including harmonizing data and documents to ensure that all reports are submitted with care and accuracy.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with internal partners and regulators; exercise respectfulness, clear communication, and demonstrate high sensitivity in responding to regulatory requests.
• Provide technical advice related to Licensing and Trading Standards matters and provide detailed advice and guidance to Senior Managers and other stakeholders.
• Provide Legal advice to key stakeholders on laws, rules, regulations and compliance matters that contains legal risks and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Handling several advisories, consultations and lawsuits pertaining to different fields and legal issues (e.g Corporate, Commercial, Construction, Real Estate, Labour, Investment, IP Laws etc.).
• Manage conflict queries by undertaking searches, analysing reports and recommend appropriate courses of actions by pushing issues to resolution.
• Drafting contracts, which includes, but is not limited to; Construction Contracts, Leasing Contracts, Real Estate Contracts, Outsourcing Contracts, Technology Contracts, Software licensing & Development Agreements, Services Agreements, Advisory Contracts, Franchise Agreements etc.
• Provide proactive, in-depth, business focused advice and counsel regarding conflicts of interests, agreements, claims, and actions to be taken to avoid or minimize disputes and litigations.
• Stay abreast with new and changing laws, rules and regulatory developments.
• Regularly audit progress of cases, including continuing assessment of prospects of success and recoverability and adding value in strategic direction through settlement discussions.
• Prepare and provide required information to solve clients’ problems and issues and distribute work detailed monthly, quarterly and yearly Legal Reports.
• Maintain appropriate governance and permanent monitoring by giving accurate and timely counseling in a variety of legal matters.
• Negotiate deals on behalf of clients and make proper coordination’s.
• Familiarity with all procedures in courts of the Sultanate of Oman.
• Some of the major clients I am responsible for:
- Major Banks in Oman (National Bank of Oman SAOG, Oman Arab Bank SAOC, Bank Dhofar SAOG.)
- Muscat Overseas Group (Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Constructions, Investments, Travel & Tourism).
- Al Fairuz Group (International Trade & Development).
- Major Airlines (Emirates, Fly Dubai, Qatar Airways, Kuwait Airways).
• Provide in house legal advice & protect company against Legal risks and violations.
• Ensures follow-through happens according to Laws, Policies & Regulations.
• Guide management on regulatory issues to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
• Enhance and implement data protection/GDPR policies to ensure compliance with data protection requirements.
• Drafting and reviewing a wide variety of agreements/contract, such as Consortium agreements, Joint Venture agreements, Partnership agreements etc., including proposals of tenders.
• Updating the case management system in a timely manner as required by the applicable policies.
• VAT Compliance as per Federal Tax Authority Laws & Regulations.
• Maintain and update VAT record including supporting documents for VAT return submissions.
• Manage litigation and other related processes as well as outside Legal Counsels as and when necessary.
• Liaise and maintain strong relations with various external stakeholders such as regulators and governmental authorities.
• Advising on new Laws and Legal Procedures concerning the Company’s business strategy and operations.
• Educate and train employees on new and prevailing Laws, Regulations and Industry practices.
• Familiarity with procedures in courts of the UAE.
• Investigate cases facts to ensure the consideration of all relevant information.
• Coordinate and communicate Legal Advice to business clients.
• Identify appropriate materials, Legal Articles, judicial decisions, precedents and laws for appropriate cases.
• Drafting of legal Arguments for Law Suits, make written statements, filing of cases in courts, prepare motions and pleadings, secure affidavits.
• Research and Evaluate different Legal propositions.
• Conduct and carry out Legal due diligence.
• Undertook a wide range of unsupervised work which required high adaptability and efficiency.
• Provide Legal & Administrative Support in organized and efficient manner.
• Maintain court dockets and diaries.
• Performing administrative work to keep up the decorum of the firm.
Masters of Law (L.L.M)
Bachelors of Law (L.L.B)
Bachelors of Commerce (B.Com)