# Legal Corporate Affairs Consultant — ZainTECH

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Location: Dubai, UAE (remote)
Type: full_time · Level: senior
Monthly salary: AED 25,000 to 40,000 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-09-15
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## Description

Legal Corporate Affairs Consultant will support the Legal function in corporate secretarial, entity management, statutory compliance, and legal matters across the Group’s GCC, Middle East, Africa, and offshore entities.
The role will coordinate corporate filings, licensing, regulatory requirements, and entity compliance with internal teams, authorities, registered agents, and external counsel. It will also support the Group’s entity consolidation and rationalization initiatives, including liquidation and strike-off of redundant entities.
Additionally, the role will assist with commercial contracts, corporate documents, and day-to-day legal advice under the guidance of Legal leadership.
Responsibilities:
Board, Shareholder & Corporate Approvals
- Draft, coordinate, circulate and maintain Board resolutions, written resolutions, meeting minutes and related corporate approvals.
- Draft and coordinate shareholder resolutions, general assembly resolutions and minutes.
- Assess the appropriate corporate approval level for each action, including whether approval is required at shareholder, Board, manager or other authorized level.
- Review applicable corporate laws, constitutional documents and delegations of authority to confirm approval requirements, voting thresholds, quorum, execution formalities and filing requirements.
- Coordinate signatures, notarization, legalization, attestation and regulatory filings where required.
- Maintain complete registers of Board and shareholder resolutions and minutes.
- Prepare and format corporate documents in both Arabic and English, and coordinate certified legal translations where required for notarization, attestation, legalization and authority filings.
Annual Corporate & Financial Statement Approvals
- Maintain and manage the annual legal entity compliance calendar for all Group entities.
- Coordinate annual shareholder meetings and general assemblies in accordance with applicable local laws.
- Prepare resolutions approving annual audited financial statements and related corporate approvals.
- Prepare resolutions for the appointment, reappointment, replacement and remuneration of external auditors.
- Coordinate with Finance, Tax and external auditors to ensure annual corporate approvals and filings are completed within statutory deadlines.
- Prepare resolutions for the distribution of dividends and profits, transfers to statutory and legal reserves, where required under applicable local law.
- Track annual returns, statutory declarations and other recurring corporate filings applicable to each entity.
Directors, Managers, Officers & Authorised Signatories
- Prepare and coordinate resolutions relating to the appointment, resignation, removal or replacement of directors, managers and officers.
- Manage changes to authorized signatories, signing authorities and powers of representation.
- Maintain accurate records of directors, managers, officers and authorized signatories for each entity.
- Coordinate registrations and filings of changes with the relevant authorities, registries and licensing bodies.
Banking Resolutions & Powers of Attorney
- Prepare Board and/or shareholder resolutions for opening and closing bank accounts.
- Prepare resolutions for appointment, replacement and amendment of bank signatories and banking mandates.
- Coordinate resolutions relating to banking facilities, financing authorities and treasury arrangements where corporate approval is required.
- Draft and maintain powers of attorney, delegations and corporate authorizations.
- Monitor the validity, scope and expiry of powers of attorney and delegations.
- Coordinate corporate documents required by banks for KYC, account maintenance and changes in corporate authorities.
Corporate Changes & Entity Management
- Manage corporate actions including changes of directors/managers, registered office, corporate address, company name and licensed activities.
- Coordinate amendments to constitutional documents, articles of association and other formation documents.
- Support share transfers, changes in ownership and shareholding structure, and capital increases or reductions.
- Coordinate establishment of subsidiaries, branches and other legal entities.
- Support mergers, restructurings, liquidation, deregistration and closure of entities where required.
- Coordinate corporate license renewals, amendments and other entity-level registrations.
- Ensure all approved corporate changes are reflected consistently across corporate records, licenses, registries and internal systems.
- Support the Group's entity consolidation programme, including the transfer of business, assets, contracts and employees from entities being wound down into the surviving entity in each jurisdiction, and coordinate the associated intra-group transfer, novation and assignment documentation.
- Coordinate solvent (members') voluntary liquidations, strike-offs and deregistrations end-to-end, including liquidator appointments, tax, labour/

## Requirements

- Relevant experience in corporate secretarial, entity management or in-house legal operations.
- Experience supporting a multi-entity and multi-jurisdictional corporate structure is strongly preferred.
- Good understanding of corporate law principles, Board and shareholder legal compliance, statutory filings and corporate authorities.
- Strong drafting skills, particularly for Board and shareholder resolutions, minutes, powers of attorney and corporate approvals.
- Solid experience in reviewing and drafting commercial contracts and providing practical legal advice to internal stakeholders, with sound commercial judgement and the ability to identify and escalate material legal risk.
- Strong organisational and project-management skills with the ability to manage multiple jurisdictions and statutory deadlines.
- High attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate, complete and audit-ready corporate records.
- Ability to work independently with local counsel and internal stakeholders and escalate legal issues appropriately.
- Proficiency in document and entity-management tools, MS Office (advanced Word), and the ability to maintain a structured corporate repository and compliance calendar; familiarity with e-signature and document-management platforms.
- Full professional proficiency in Arabic and English, including the ability to draft, review and format corporate documents and correspondence in both languages, and to handle Arabic-language notarization, attestation and authority filings.
- Bachelor’s degree in Law, Legal Studies, Corporate Legal compliance or a related field.

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