# Legal Manager, Development & Construction — Blake Anderson Recruitment

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Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Type: full_time · Level: lead
Monthly salary: AED 12,000 to 18,000 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-09-30
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## Description

My client a leading real estate developer in Abu Dhabi requires a Legal Manager for their Projects and Construction Department to play a pivotal role in the construction legal team, providing expert, high-level legal support to the Legal Director (Projects & Construction) and General Counsel.

The role is responsible for driving the day-to-day legal coverage across a broad portfolio of major procurement projects, construction, real estate developments, and strategic joint ventures. This includes taking a leading operational role in drafting and negotiating complex, non-standard agreements as well as company standard contract templates, managing active disputes and litigation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and acting as a trusted legal advisor to key internal project stakeholders.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assisting the Legal Director, General Counsel and other members of the legal team with company day-to-day legal affairs, with particular emphasis on procurement and projects and construction matters.

• Analyze and help prepare and negotiate contracts (including with consultants, contractors, suppliers and commercial partners), leases, licenses, corporate organizational documents, opinions and other documents as and when needed.

• Managing alternative dispute resolution, prosecuting and defending litigation, and settling outstanding matters under the oversight of the Legal Director.

• Managing external counsel in preparing briefs, complaints, answers and replies as well as ensuring cost-effective delivery and high-quality work product on specialized contentious and non-contentious matters under the supervision of the Legal Director.

• Serving as a key legal business partner to project managers, procurement leads, and business units by providing proactive, commercial legal counsel on project delivery, contract administration, and procurement strategies.

• Representing the construction legal team in project steering committees, risk panels, or cross-functional working groups as delegated by the Legal Director or General Counsel. Identify potential risks and propose solutions to mitigate legal risks.

• Drafting and updating standardized legal templates, guidance notes, and playbooks, and delivering targeted training to internal project and procurement teams.

• Supervising and training more junior members of the legal department.

• Any other task or duty associated with legal work or as directed by the Legal Director and/or General Counsel

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bar membership

• Bachelor of laws

• 4+ years of legal experience in a law firm or company that operates in the field of development.

• Previous private practice experience in an international law firm or a reputable comparable company is essential.

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation and communication skills in English.

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