Scope

Lead a legal process successfully using resources to substantially reduce project costs, In corporate with integrity in governance, risks and compliance and create a competitive advantage through optimized legal and contracts solutions and intimacy with stakeholder across Middle East and African Business.

Responsibilities

• Develop long term strategy/ compliance for the legal affairs in line with RATP Dev vision and mission.
• Review, Draft and develop agreements including shareholding agreements, Third-party service agreements, technical services agreements, procurement of other goods and services, HR related matters, delegation documents, financial authority matrices, NDA, codes, and operational control documents.
• Negotiating commercial contracts between the different parties involved in a project.
• Liaising with Governmental Bodies to obtain related permission and approvals.
• Review Public Private Partnership Law regulations, Tax Regulations, Financial Regulations like loans and promissory notes, issuance of preference shares, transfer of shares and project financing instruments and credit facility, Civil and Commercial Court and Regulatory Tribunal Regulations, Security Regulations and Special corporate Regulations.
• Point of contact for national and international arbitrations involving disputes and prosecution of RATP Dev rights for the region.
• Prepare and review business acquisition, sponsorship agreements; marketing contracts, IT hardware/software contracts, tendering procedures.
• Develop framework for Risk Management, conflict of interest, ethics, corporate governance rules and manuals.
• Prepare annual business plan in conjunction with other business and operational unit heads and cascade it down within Legal Affairs.
• Ensure that exposure and legal risk are properly measured and assessed in the documentation related to RATP Dev services, including contracts and agreements, and legal advice and opinions are rendered to protect the RATP Dev interests when being exposed to legal pursuits.
• Provide support on litigation cases to other team members or external legal service providers and take lead when required.
• Collaborate with departments and external entities on workouts for potential litigations.
• Ensure preventive analysis of top management decisions and provide legal advice and recommendations, whenever possible, to protect the interests of the company when being exposed to legal pursuits.
• Provide legal opinion and advice on potential violations identified and escalated by other departments.
• Coordinate with senior management the course of action to undertake.
• Monitor advice given by external solicitors and ensure the advice is appropriately disseminated to internally.
• Review periodically levels of service and support, personnel, methods of working and fee structures.
• Conduct periodic reviews of work in progress with direct reports and compile periodic reports for presentation to top management.
• Highlight and discuss key legal issues with accountable stakeholders and Board/GM.
• Advise and recommend corrective activities to improve RATP Dev legal effectiveness.
• Lead, guide and evaluate the performance of the legal team within the region.

Requirement

• Possess Minimum 15 years of Experience in Legal field of which 5 years in the large corporate sector.
• Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree or bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree preferable in Law or Business Administration.
• Experience in working with Government entities from the Middle East and North Africa regions (Egypt, Morocco, Saudi, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar ideally).
• English and Arabic essential with French advantageous.
• Successful track record in managing long term contracts and claims.
• Able to set up JV.

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