Legal Counsel (Maritime & Services)
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About the Role
We are a global energy maritime logistics leader seeking a Legal Counsel to provide legal advice on maritime and offshore operations, contracts, and transactions. The role involves drafting and reviewing legal documents, ensuring regulatory compliance, and supporting dispute resolution.
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Responsibilities
- Provide legal advice and services to General Counsel, Associate General Counsel and Senior Legal Counsel on maritime and offshore operations, contracts, and new projects.
- Ensure conformity with laws and regulations, draft, review and amend legal opinions, agreements and documents.
- Manage and supervise all corporate and commercial legal affairs of the company.
- Assist with development and review of documentation for commercial, corporate and transactional matters within maritime and offshore sectors.
- Assist with legal functions pertaining to disputes, arbitration, litigation, contract drafting and review.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Law
- At least 4 years of relevant experience preferably in top international law/consultancy firms and/or local or international blue chip corporates
- Experience in Shipping/Maritime/Logistics industry
- Excellent English language (written and spoken)
- Must be a qualified lawyer (English/common law or civil law jurisdiction)
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About the Company
- We are a global energy maritime logistics leader with a world class asset base.
- We provide mission critical and highly specialized services across the entire value chain.
- We also provide market leading, cost competitive maritime and logistics solutions to over 100 global customers.
About The Job
- Provides legal advice and services to the General Counsel, Associate General Counsel and Senior Legal Counsel on existing maritime and offshore operations, including contracts, and new projects and transactions.
- Ensures conformity with laws and regulations, drafts, reviews and amends legal opinions, agreements and documents.
- Works with the General Counsel, Associate General Counsel and Senior Legal Counsel to manage and supervise all corporate and commercial legal affairs.
- Assists with the development and review of documentation for all commercial, corporate and transactional matters within the maritime and offshore sectors.
- Assists with the legal functions pertaining to disputes, arbitration, litigation, contract drafting, contract review and all other maritime related corporate and commercial functions.
Key Accountabilities
- Provides legal counsel and advice to the General Counsel, Associate General Counsel and Senior Legal Counsel with regard to maritime and offshore commercial, corporate and transactional matters.
- Drafts, reviews, interprets and amends legal opinions, agreements, letters, memos, submissions and any other relevant documents.
- Assists in providing the legal functions particularly in development and implementation of common legal practices and joint strategies.
- Attends internal company committees and meetings as required.
- Assists with external legal counsel services related to contractual advice, contract disputes.
- Coordinates with Corporate Governance Department on corporate governance matters.
- Coordinates with Compliance Department on compliance matters.
- Provides legal advice to ensure maritime and offshore commercial and corporate activities comply with applicable law.
- Assists in advising on all company disputes relating to maritime and offshore contracts.
- Performs other similar duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Law
- At least 4 years of relevant experience preferably in top international law/consultancy firms and/or local or international blue chip corporates.
- Experience in Shipping/Maritime/Logistics industry
- Excellent English language (written and spoken).
- Professional Certifications
- Must be a qualified lawyer (English/common law or civil law jurisdiction)
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