Website DP World
At DP World we have a heritage to be proud of, growing from a local port operator to a global trade enabler. From our beginnings in 1972 at Port Rashid in Dubai (UAE), we now have a team of over 50,000 people working at 150 operations around the world.Our operations include ports and terminals, but also industrial parks, logistics and economic zones, maritime services and marinas. In fact, our business has changed so much from the early days of operating ports and terminals, we can now be an integral part of your supply chain, tailoring innovative solutions that tackle your challenges and manage your costs.We aim to be essential to building the bright future of global trade, ensuring everything we do leaves a long-lasting positive impact on economies and the world.
Legal Counsel
Job Purpose:
Provision of commercially focused guidance, advice and assistance to head office and regional management over a broad range of legal matters under the supervision of senior legal counsels.
Key Accountabilities:
- Provide effective, reliable and user-friendly support, advice and assistance to senior managers within DP World on legal matters affecting any aspect of DP World’s business.
- Review, draft and negotiate a broad range of legal documents ensuring that legal requirements are met within such documents.
- Identify and analyze legal issues arising in transactions and new projects. Make clear and commercially focused recommendations in respect of such issues. Manage the transactions and projects (including their implementation) from a legal perspective.
- Identify and analyze legal issues arising in transactions and new projects. Make clear and commercially focused recommendations in respect of such issues. Manage the transactions and projects (including their implementation) from a legal perspective.
- Maintain strong links with external legal counsel. Assist with the selection of appropriate external legal counsel for work that is to be outsourced. Manage external legal spend for projects for which the job holder has day to day responsibility.
- Act as a liaison between commercial colleagues and external legal counsel. Provide external legal counsel with clear and explicit instructions. Oversee and review work carried out by external legal counsel.
- Provide effective reporting to Senior legal counsel.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills:
- Law Degree from an accredited university.
- Qualification to practice law from a recognised legal regulatory body.
- Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in an internationally recognised law firm and/ or multinational company. Preferably experience working in the Middle East region.
- Knowledge of basic corporate and commercial laws.
- Commercial awareness and understanding of business needs (including awareness and sensitivity to differing international legal and cultural business practices, and the flexibility to work within different cultural environments).
- Excellent analytical and organisational skills.
- Ability to effectively negotiate legal issues and transaction documentation with counterparties.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
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