Corporate Legal Counsel
ABRAJ HOLDING
Total years of experience :13 years, 4 Months
ABRAJ HOLDING, DOHA, QATAR
(Retail/Real Estate)
October, 2021 - Present
Head of Legal
Advising the company on a number of issues related to administration of the company in accordance with the Qatari laws and regulations.
Redacting, analysing contracts, mediating in terms of dispute settlements.
Assisting the HR department, legal actions, consultancies
Assisting the Finance department, lease, commercial disputes preventive measures.
Working with external Auditors, clients, case management
Liaising with relevant Government Authorities for compliances and procedures (formalities).
Handling labour cases and social security related issues.
Higher management department consultancies.
Catering related plans, supply agreements, HR cases.
Drafting of lease agreements and deeds
Due Diligence of properties
Review and verify title documents
Drafting of different types of addendums, amendments with
regard to lease agreements
Letter of Intent
Negotiation with landlords on the commercial aspect of the
lease deed/agreement
Drafting of different kinds of letters, notices, memorandum of
understandings.
Provide legal administrative assistance, taxation advice both
individuals/firms consultancy.
Pursue cases for and against the company, liaising with
government bodies.
Participating in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms
such as mediation.
Litigating before the several courts and execution
departments corporate, labour, insurance claims, criminology
and abuse case reports.
Document redacting: Analysis and proofing, amending
through track changes & formatting documents, assisting in
drafting of Agreements, such as Confidentiality agreements,
commercial contracts, corporate (Distributorship and Retailer
contracts) IT contracts.
Assisting in structuring internal rules of procedures (finance,
labour, strategic) and implementing rules/assuring full
compliance/report investigate possible infringements to
related departments.
Managing Real estate lease: Rental contracts
termination/renew process, arranging lessee/lessor relation,
C undertake relevant legal procedures, real estate financing
and re-financing agreements
Intellectual property rights: Registry/licensing, patent
infringement protection, trademarks forgery, counterfeit
automobile parts, domain piracy, information gathering,
investigate, analyse/report all the way to legal proceedings,
anti-trust dealings, and electronic crimes/E COMMERCE.
Concluding agreements - Contracts MOU/MOA, minutes of
the general assembly, board of directors dealing with internal
and external clients with professionalism and consideration,
AGM arrangements White Label Agreements, NDAs.
Debit Collection - Scheduling payment enquiry, collecting
payments, pre dispute procedures, full knowledge of legal
actions, E debts status updates/reports, instalments/full.
FEE EARNER: Organize the Lawyer's billing & collections
system, including tabulations, drafting invoices, timesheets &
amount collection follow-up.
Assists the legal team in all administrative work.
Developing and maintaining filing/archiving systems, carry out
weekly review of the cases reports.
LEGAL CASEWORK: Analysing, researching, translating and
summarizing legal information.
Developing legal precedents and best practices.
Identify relevant judicial decisions, case law, (Westlaw & lexis
Nexis) statutes, legal articles, codes.
Follows up on all HR-related activities.
COMPANY INCEPTION: Free zones/IDR.
Licence entity formation related formalities.
Renewal of licenses & permits.
Coordinates with Government Departments/stakeholders.
Due diligence, KYC AML.
CLIENT MANAGEMENT: Liaising in client relations
arrangements on case updates, courts orders.
Coordinates internal/external meetings and activities of the
legal team to meet legal dead lines.
Scheduling seminars and conferences, prepare witnesses,
legal correspondence.
Calendar management/maintain filing systems hard/soft
copies.
Creates and maintains key contact and distribution lists.