Legal Counsel – Corporate, Commercial & Regulatory

About Dreevo

The Role

Corporate and Commercial Responsibilities

• Advise leadership on services, partnerships, operating models, investments, and strategic business decisions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, MoUs, heads of terms, service agreements, supplier agreements, technology licences, SaaS/API agreements, development agreements, procurement terms, and partnership agreements.
• Develop marketplace provider terms covering service levels, data sharing, payments, insurance, liability, suspension, and termination.
• Support major automotive, energy, technology, and institutional partnerships.

Regulatory and Corporate Structuring

• Manage regulatory, licensing, permitting, and activity requirements associated with the marketplace and new service verticals.
• Coordinate with UAE and Dubai authorities, licensing bodies, regulators, and specialist advisers.
• Establish companies, subsidiaries, branches, business units, and operating entities as Dreevo expands.
• Advise on mainland and free zone structures, permitted activities, ownership, governance, liability separation, and corporate structuring.
• Coordinate company formation, licensing, constitutional documents, shareholder and director documentation, UBO filings, and other corporate requirements.

Technology, Privacy, and Intellectual Property

• Work with Product and Engineering on technology, software, data, privacy, and intellectual property matters.
• Protect ownership of source code, product concepts, designs, data models, algorithms, AI workflows, brand assets, and other intellectual property.
• Review SaaS, API, SDK, cloud, open source, and AI-related agreements and licensing terms.
• Support UAE PDPL compliance, privacy notices, data processing agreements, data retention, and cross-border data matters.

Employment, Disputes, and Legal Operations

• Draft customer terms, service terms, privacy notices, refund and cancellation policies, and marketplace disclosures.
• Advise on UAE employment matters and prepare employment, consultancy, contractor, NDA, IP assignment, and confidentiality documentation.
• Manage legal risk, disputes, claims, settlement discussions, and external counsel where required.
• Build contract templates, approval processes, signing authorities, contract registers, legal trackers, and governance records.

Required Experience

• Qualified lawyer in a recognised jurisdiction.
• Approximately 3–6+ years of post-qualification experience; exceptional candidates outside this range may also be considered.
• Strong UAE/GCC experience with exposure to corporate, commercial, employment, consumer, and regulatory matters.
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements through to signature.
• Experience working in-house, on secondment, or within a highly commercial law firm environment.
• Strong understanding of technology, software, data, intellectual property, and digital platform contracting.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams independently and prioritise according to commercial and legal risk.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate complex legal issues clearly and commercially.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in startups, scale-ups, marketplaces, mobility, automotive, logistics, energy, fintech, ecommerce, or on-demand services is particularly valuable.
• Experience with marketplace agreements, SaaS/API/SDK licensing, data sharing, strategic partnerships, fundraising, corporate restructuring, investor due diligence, privacy, intellectual property, AI, or open source matters is advantageous.
• Arabic language capability is advantageous but not essential.

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