Group Legal Counsel
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
Local Unit & Position Description:
Group Legal is part of DNV\xe2\x80\x99s Group functions responsible for providing legal advice to all business areas on a global basis and consists of over 30 lawyers and support staff. Group Legal is a distributed team with lawyers located in Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai, Hamburg, H\xc3\xb8vik, London and Houston, headed by the Group Legal Director at the DNV headquarters in Veritasparken at H\xc3\xb8vik.
The Legal Counsel will be reporting to the Head of DNV Group Legal, Region Middle East & Asia Pacific in Singapore and will be part of a highly skilled and motivated team responsible for the provision of high-quality legal services and advice to the DNV Group in the Middle East & Asia Pacific Region. In this new role you will mainly be focusing on DNV\xe2\x80\x99s Inspection Business, but you will also be working with the entire DNV organisation, advising all business areas (Energy Systems, Maritime, Digital Solutions, Accelerator, Supply Chain and Product Assurance and Business Assurance) as well as providing legal advice to our shared service functions. As a member Group Legal, you will also work closely with other lawyers in the region as well as the ones that are based in Head Office or other regions.
As Legal Counsel in Dubai you will provide legal support and will be in direct contact with DNV managers and employees, at all levels and frequently have the opportunity to participate actively and support the business in its day-to-day challenges.
He or she will be required to analyse and identify legal risks and implications on a wide variety of issues, such as:
- Contractual matters, including drafting and negotiations
- Corporate law
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Claims handling and litigation
- Procurement
- Regulatory issues
Key accountabilities:
- To act in accordance with and promote DNV Group\xe2\x80\x99s purpose, vision, and values, actively promoting and advising on business procedures and policies.
- To routinely draft, negotiate and conclude a variety of commercial agreements including, but not limited to, service contracts, subcontract agreements, MOUs, collaboration agreements, joint industry participation agreements, procurement agreement, across all business areas.
- To liaise with client\xe2\x80\x99s legal advisors / representatives to negotiate and finalize mutually acceptable legal terms.
- Support and assist with litigation and other dispute proceedings involving DNV and to support a positive conclusion of such.
- Advise DNV on statutory laws, regulations and judicial developments affecting the Company within the Middle East & Asia Pacific region.
- M&A work including provision of support in corporate and strategic restructuring of the company, including divestments of business units and corporate entities.
- Work with and effectively manage external counsel instructed to undertake matters on behalf of DNV.
- Develop, prepare and provide legal training to internal stakeholders.
- Driving improvement of internal processes and governance.
- Able to challenge, influence and communicate effectively with key directors, senior managers and customers in a constructive, pragmatic and positive manner, building positive working relationships including providing required responses to business needs and compliance with legal obligations required by regulatory bodies
Position Qualifications
- Professional legal experience from either a top-ranked law firm and/or well-regarded in-house legal department in a reputable commercial multinational organisation.
- Qualified lawyer with 3 to 5 years\xe2\x80\x99 proven track record in commercial and corporate legal affairs.
- Excellent academic credentials from a respected law school.
- Excellent written & spoken English, secondary language skills, especially Arabic would be an advantage.
- Excellent drafting skills.
- A strong communicator and possess a commercially savvy approach to legal matters.
- Able to handle tasks and cases independently and effectively engage and consult with internal stakeholders.
- Has experience from the UAE or other countries in the GCC.
- Is ideally currently located in the UAE or in the GCC and intends to work and stay in Dubai for the foreseeable future.
- Is delivery-focused and able to work in a highly-pressurized, deadline-driven environment whilst maintaining focus on quality and attention to detail.
- Is genuinely interested in our clients and possesses a driving need to facilitate their own, and thereby your, success.
- Is a self-motivated and creative self-starter.
- has a commercial, international and common-sense approach to legal challenges;
- Has an appetite to use and develop wider legal skills/knowledge.
- Asks critical questions but is a \xe2\x80\x9cto the point\xe2\x80\x9d person.
- Takes personal responsibility and ownership for own decisions/actions.
- Has flexibility to travel within the GCC, India and other countries in the Region and overseas as needed.
- Is an open and straight-forward individual with a good sense of humour.
The successful candidate will play a key role in the identification and management of legal risk issues across our business in the MEA region.
Closely working as a business partner of respective regional leaders in our MEA business, the position will report to the Head of DNV Group Legal, Region Middle East & Asia Pacific based in Singapore.
Company & Business Area Description:
Company & Business Area Description:
DNV is the independent expert in risk management and assurance, with almost 12,000 employees operating in more than 100 countries. Through our broad experience and deep expertise we advance safety and sustainable performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions.
Whether assessing a new ship design, optimizing the performance of a wind farm, analyzing sensor data from a gas pipeline or certifying a food company\xe2\x80\x99s supply chain, we enable our customers and their stakeholders to make critical decisions with confidence.
Our employees are driven by a common purpose: to safeguard life, property, and the environment. We help tackle the challenges and global transformations facing our customers and the world today and we are a trusted voice for many of the world\xe2\x80\x99s most successful and forward-thinking companies. Equal Opportunity Statement:
Whether assessing a new ship design, optimizing the performance of a wind farm, analyzing sensor data from a gas pipeline or certifying a food company\xe2\x80\x99s supply chain, we enable our customers and their stakeholders to make critical decisions with confidence.
Our employees are driven by a common purpose: to safeguard life, property, and the environment. We help tackle the challenges and global transformations facing our customers and the world today and we are a trusted voice for many of the world\xe2\x80\x99s most successful and forward-thinking companies. Equal Opportunity Statement:
DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity!
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Job IdJD1516054
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationDubai, United Arab Emirates
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EducationNot mentioned