Legal Counsel
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About the Role
Provide legal support by reviewing and negotiating contracts, advising stakeholders, ensuring compliance, and managing legal risks with strong communication skills.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Review, draft and negotiate customer, supplier, SaaS, consultancy, partnership, licensing and confidentiality agreements
- Develop and maintain standard contract templates and clauses
- Support contract lifecycle management and execution processes
- Provide practical legal advice to internal stakeholders across Sales, Procurement, HR, Finance, Technology and Operations
- Support corporate governance activities, legal documentation and authorised signatory processes
- Monitor legal developments and deliver legal awareness guidance
Requirements
- Provide practical, commercially focused legal support across the business
- Review, draft and negotiate commercial contracts
- Manage legal risk through timely, pragmatic advice
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations and company policies
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About The Role
- Based in Abu Dhabi reporting to the Head of Legal, the Legal Counsel provides practical, commercially focused legal support across the business.
- The role is responsible for managing legal risk through timely, pragmatic advice while enabling the business to achieve its strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Commercial Contracts: Review, draft and negotiate customer, supplier, SaaS, consultancy, partnership, licensing and confidentiality agreements.
- Develop and maintain standard contract templates and clauses.
- Support contract lifecycle management and execution processes.
- Ensure contracts align with company policies and risk appetite.
- Business Legal Advisory: Provide practical legal advice to internal stakeholders across Sales, Procurement, HR, Finance, Technology and Operations.
- Respond to day to day legal queries and identify legal risks.
- Support new products, services and commercial initiatives.
- Corporate & Governance: Support corporate governance activities, legal documentation and authorised signatory processes.
- Maintain legal records and assist with board documentation where required.
- Policy & Compliance: Support legal policy development and regulatory compliance.
- Monitor legal developments and deliver legal awareness guidance.
- Legal Operations: Maintain contract repositories and legal trackers.
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