Industry Type Telecom
Functional Area Lawyers / Legal Advisors
Location of Job Doha - Qatar
Job Description
WeBecome is a Singapore headquartered consulting and professional services company. We are looking for “Senior Legal Counsel” for a fulltime opening with our client’s office in Middle East. Interested applicants please apply to: placement@webecome.com highlighting current and expected salaries: Unit: Legal Division: Strategy Reports to: Group Legal Counsel ROLE AND CONTEXT PURPOSE: To review all documentation from a legal perspective and provide legal advice, ensuring that the company complies with legal and regulatory requirements. CONTEXT: This role works with most of the company’s departments providing legal support across every aspect of the company’s business, with a particular focus on strategic acquisitions projects, finance, corporate governance and corporate secretariat. This role is responsible for supervising the quality of legal support provided by the other Legal team members. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Proactive management and minimization of legal risk Quality, timeliness and commercially focused solutions of legal advice Timely response to business requirements Level of involvement in negotiation of agreements / contracts. ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES • Provide legal support to all areas of the company’s business, including: o Review, draft and negotiate agreements & customer contracts. o Provide legal advice (written & verbal) on request regarding business issues. o Provide compliance/interpretation advice regarding the company’s internal Regulations, contractual procedures, external legislation and other regulatory requirements o Manage external legal advisors o Advice and draft on specific focus areas i.e. mergers and acquisitions, finance, corporate governance, and corporate secretariat. • Represent Legal in company’s Committees & virtual teams • Assist other business units in developing and drafting their policies/ regulations ensuring customer & commercial focus also compliance to the company's regulations. • Supervise legal support provided by Legal team members ensuing: o Quality of documents (i.e. legal accuracy, English expression and practical commercial solutions focus) before submission to Group Legal Counsel for signature. • Supervise management of litigation activities. KEY RELATIONSHIPS & DECISION MAKING KEY RELATIONSHIPS: - Reports to: Group Legal Counsel Heads of departments on legal matters. Externally, the role-holder has contact with law firms. DECISION MAKING AUTHORITY: Takes decisions regarding: management of litigation Takes decisions relating to contractual or advice matters from a legal perspective EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE Minimum 10 years post qualification experience dealing with international contracts in a major law firm and / or telecommunications business Specific areas of practice: • General commercial law • Telecommunications law • Corporate law (including mergers & acquisitions, company formations etc) • Corporate governance • Corporate secretariat Knowledge of Qatari law would be a plus Competency in basic MS Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) ROLE-BASED QUALIFICATIONS: - Bachelors Degree in law or equivalent Regular participation in continuing legal education (i.e. legal training) in relevant areas. SKILLS TECHNICAL & NON-TECHNICAL - Superior English language legal drafting skills - Superior English language written and verbal communications skills - Strong commercial focus - Customer focused & solutions oriented - Innovative thinker - Negotiation skills - Self starter - able to work autonomously - Team player - Experience in managing & developing junior legal staff OTHER Bilingual (English & Arabic) Interested candidates please send in your resumes in the form of a word document immediately. You are also requested to put in the following details in your cover note – • Current and expected salaries • Available date of joining • Contact numbers START DATE : ASAP JOB LOCATION : Doha, Qatar APPLY TO : placement@webecome.com
Desired Candidate's Profile
Profile
Bachelors Degree in law or equivalent Regular participation in continuing legal education (i.e. legal training) in relevant areas.
Experience 9 - 18 years
Education Basic - Bachelor of Laws (LLB) ( Law )
Nationality Any Arabic National
Gender Any
Contact Details
Name Nilesh Tiwari - IT Resource Executive
Website http://www.webecome.com