Legal Counsel
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About the Role
Sony Music Middle East is seeking a Legal Counsel to lead and manage legal matters across the region. The role involves negotiating commercial agreements, providing legal guidance on artist signings and digital initiatives, and overseeing compliance.
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Responsibilities
- Negotiate, draft, and review a wide range of commercial agreements, including third party relationships, license in and license out deals, distribution agreements, and artist contracts
- Provide legal guidance and support to business teams during local artist signings and other contractual negotiations
- Lead and advise on deal making strategies for digital initiatives and new business ventures such as concerts, live events, endorsements, and sponsorships
- Develop, maintain, and update standard form agreements and contractual provisions
- Oversee internal contract databases and systems for managing artist rights and contractual obligations
- Provide legal support for internal corporate restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and related transactional documentation
- Advise on and support the implementation of corporate compliance frameworks
- Supervise litigation matters, including the engagement and management of external counsel
Requirements
- 8 10 years of post qualification experience in law firms handling commercial, corporate, IP, or M&A matters with deep understanding of UAE commercial law
- Demonstrated experience in independent contract negotiation and deal closure
- Experience in litigation management and counsel coordination
- Experience in media, entertainment, digital, technology, or consumer facing industries is preferred
- Hands on experience in maintaining local legal systems, following processes and compliance
- Fluent in Arabic and English
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Job Overview
- This is an exciting opportunity for a self motivated legal professional to make a meaningful impact in a fast changing, creative, and collaborative environment within the global music and entertainment industry.
- As Legal Counsel, you will lead and manage legal matters across Sony Music Middle East, while partnering with internal stakeholders to support a wide range of business activities.
What you'll do
- Negotiate, draft, and review a wide range of commercial agreements, including third party relationships, license in and license out deals and distribution agreements, artist contracts and other key commercial transactions.
- Provide legal guidance and support to business teams during local artist signings and other contractual negotiations.
- Lead and advise on deal making strategies for digital initiatives and new business ventures, such as concerts, live events, endorsements, and sponsorships.
- Develop, maintain, and update standard form agreements and contractual provisions to align with evolving business models and legal/regulatory changes.
- Oversee internal contract databases and systems for managing artist rights and contractual obligations.
- Provide legal support for internal corporate restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and related transactional documentation.
- Advise on and support the implementation of corporate compliance frameworks, including business affairs policies, law compliance reporting, and statutory filings.
- Supervise litigation matters, including the engagement and management of external counsel.
- Work independently and provide reliable, commercially savvy legal counsel with minimal supervision.
Who you are
- 8 10 years of post qualification experience in law firms handling commercial, corporate, IP, or M&A matters with deep understanding of UAE commercial law.
- Demonstrated experience in independent contract negotiation and deal closure, litigation management and counsel coordination and advising senior leadership on legal and commercial risks.
- Experience in media, entertainment, digital, technology, or consumer facing industries is preferred.
- Hands on experience in maintaining local legal systems, following processes and compliance.
- Fluent in Arabic and English.
What we give you
- You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day.
- A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best.
- Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.
- The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next.
- We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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