Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel Location: Abu Dhabi Role Purpose Support the Legal Function on commercial contracting, corporate, intellectual property, and dispute matters across the entity portfolio. Operate under direct supervision, taking on increasing ownership of matters as capability builds, with a clear development pathway towards independent portfolio responsibility over 18–24 months. Key Responsibilities • Commercial contracting support. Draft, review, and mark up master service agreements, teaming agreements, referral agreements, supply contracts, and other standard commercial agreements; maintain the contract register, manage signature/execution workflows, and ensure version control. • Technology, IT & information security. Support the drafting and negotiation of technology-driven agreements — software licensing, cloud and hosting, data-centre, managed-services, systems-integration, and SLAs — and embed information-security, data-protection, and business-continuity provisions; assist on IT procurement, acceptable-use and InfoSec policy alignment, and post-incident documentation in coordination with the IT and Information Security functions. • Mergers & Acquisitions. Support M&A and corporate transactions across the deal lifecycle, assisting with due diligence, data-room management and document review, drafting and reviewing transaction documents (term sheets, SPAs, shareholder and JV agreements), tracking conditions precedent and closing checklists, and supporting post-merger integration and entity-rationalisation steps, in coordination with the Head of Legal and external counsel. • Negotiation support. Support business stakeholders in vendor and customer negotiations by preparing redlines, tracking comments, drafting responses, and attending negotiation meetings. • Corporate and secretarial. Drafting routine shareholder resolutions, coordinating notarisations and attestations, tracking license renewals and corporate statutory obligations, supporting the corporate function on group entity administration. • Intellectual property administration. Manage trademark/copyright applications and renewals, maintain the IP register, liaise with patent agents on filings, and support intra-group IP assignments, licensing arrangements, and domain-name management. • Disputes support. Collect documents and prepare case files, draft initial responses, demand letters and legal notices, manage without-prejudice correspondence, and liaise with external counsel on routine matters. • Internal advisory. Act as first point of contact for day-to-day legal queries from Sales, Procurement, Projects, Finance, HR, Marketing, and IT. • Legal operations & knowledge management. Maintain and update the template suite and clause library and contribute to the Legal KPI dashboard and matter-management/tracking systems. Qualifications and Experience • LLB from a recognized institution; LLM is an advantage but not required. • Bar admission to a recognized jurisdiction. • 3 – 5 years post-qualification experience, ideally including at least 3 years of UAE in-house or law firm exposure. • English: full professional fluency, with strong analytical and drafting discipline. Arabic: an advantage Show more Show less

LLB from a recognized institution; Bar admission to a recognized jurisdiction; 3 – 5 years post-qualification experience, ideally including at least 3 years of UAE in-house or law firm exposure. English: full professional fluency, with strong analytical and drafting discipline. Arabic: an advantage

Commercial contracting support. Draft, review, and mark up master service agreements, teaming agreements, referral agreements, supply contracts, and other standard commercial agreements; maintain the contract register, manage signature/execution workflows, and ensure version control. Technology, IT & information security. Support the drafting and negotiation of technology-driven agreements — software licensing, cloud and hosting, data-centre, managed-services, systems-integration, and SLAs — and embed information-security, data-protection, and business-continuity provisions; assist on IT procurement, acceptable-use and InfoSec policy alignment, and post-incident documentation in coordination with the IT and Information Security functions. Mergers & Acquisitions. Support M&A and corporate transactions across the deal lifecycle, assisting with due diligence, data-room management and document review, drafting and reviewing transaction documents (term sheets, SPAs, shareholder and JV agreements), tracking conditions precedent and closing checklists, and supporting post-merger integration and entity-rationalisation steps, in coordination with the Head of Legal and external counsel. Negotiation support. Support business stakeholders in vendor and customer negotiations by preparing redlines, tracking comments, drafting responses, and attending negotiation meetings. Corporate and secretarial. Drafting routine shareholder resolutions, coordinating notarisations and attestations, tracking license renewals and corporate statutory obligations, supporting the corporate function on group entity administration. Intellectual property administration. Manage trademark/copyright applications and renewals, maintain the IP register, liaise with patent agents on filings, and support intra-group IP assignments, licensing arrangements, and domain-name management. Disputes support. Collect documents and prepare case files, draft initial responses, demand letters and legal notices, manage without-prejudice correspondence, and liaise with external counsel on routine matters. Internal advisory. Act as first point of contact for day-to-day legal queries from Sales, Procurement, Projects, Finance, HR, Marketing, and IT. Legal operations & knowledge management. Maintain and update the template suite and clause library and contribute to the Legal KPI dashboard and matter-management/tracking systems.