Legal Advisor, Noatum Ports Abu Dhabi Ports

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide legal advice on daily activities of the global business across complex legal landscapes to safeguard interests and ensure that transactions are conducted in compliance with applicable law as well as policies and procedures
• Review and grant legal sign-off for contracts and agreements in order to minimize financial, legal and reputational risks.
• Support the development of compliance-related policies, procedures and standards and update existing.
• Prepare and present reports to appraise the progress of compliance initiatives and update the business and entities of significant and new decisions, legislation, emerging trends, risk factors and regulatory rulings that may affect the business or existing company policy.
• Assist in preparing, reviewing and updating legal documents, policies, procedures, and contracts.
• Review, draft and validate all financial, regulatory, governmental, IT and other contractual agreements to ensure that they are in compliance with the legal provisions and uphold the interests of the business.
• Provide advice to Lawyers in completing the Legal Due Diligence process for each transaction within the prescribed timeline in order to ensure effective functioning of the Legal Department.
• Maintain an updated and accurate record of all corporate and commercial documents, agreements, property papers and rights agreements etc. including certified copies obtained from various authorities in safe custody.
• Supervise outsourcing and liaise with external lawyers/counsellors to prepare briefs, whenever required and to attend to legal matters and solicit advice within their jurisdiction.
• Liaise internally across departments to highlight discrepancies in contractual and legal documentation received from the clients, vendors and other contracting parties.
• Follow up claims / disputes and cases in order to settle according to the rule of law.

People Management Responsibilites:

• Identify skill gaps and training requirements for country level legal teams to ensure consistent high performance.

Strategic Responsibilities:

• Participate in the formulation of the overall Legal strategy and ensure the alignment with group objectives.