Sr. Legal Counsel

Overview

Position Title: Senior Legal Counsel reports to the General Counsel and Board Secretary

• We re looking for a talented and highly motivated legal counsel to support our rapidly growing and evolving businesses and provide comprehensive and advanced in-house legal support to the Group of Companies on all legal matters related to contracts, insurance, projects and new ventures, and Corporate Governance & legal compliance.
• You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with broad, generalist responsibilities, but with specialist legal subject skills in commercial law and matters pertaining to the Petrochemicals and Chemicals sector. You will be responsible for counseling the business operations by giving pro-active, professional, competent, cost-effective and creative legal support.
• You ll need to bring negotiation and drafting skills and business sense to deal with multiple functional teams in a rapidly scaling business.
• You will collaborate with local business leaders as well as with supporting areas advising on legal risks, business strategies and other issues related to the Company s businesses.
• You will be required to work independently as well as part of various teams and take on projects in addition to the daily day job.
• To progressively work closely with the General Counsel in providing creative legal advice across the full range of business activity where legal input (of all types) is required, which may include:
• Corporate transactional advice
• Progressively provide supporting day-to-day commercial and contract law advice.
• Maintaining contractual legal templates
• To advise on complex commercial contracting matters (of any nature) within the Group.
• Commercial contentious matters pre-litigation with a view to early settlement
• Supporting the Governance and Compliance team and providing advice on regulatory matters
• To provide legal training to junior members of the Legal Department and to other departments within the organization.

• Understand the individual business unit needs in terms of contracts, tenders, press releases, controls and policies and draft and revise contracts, advising on legal risks when applicable to achieve optimal business interests, consistency with corporate documentation and compliance with laws and regulations.
• Facilitate joint review sessions with the business to ensure that the drafted contract represents all the required clauses and adequately represents the needs of the business and protects the business against any possible risks.

Ensure providing proper assessment of the risks associated with the contracts and agreements in order to ensure that CLIENT is not exposed to uncontrolled risk and use the right protective legal instrument to hedge against the identified risks.

• Provide legal opinion on legal claims on different commercial matters e.g. customers, suppliers, vendors, contractors etc. with a view of recovering company s rights or minimise liability and reaching amicable settlements in line with Management s discretion.
• Manage the negotiation of agreements, tenders, and contracts to obtain the best terms for the Company.

• Lead all aspects of insurance matters of the Company, including preparing tender documents for insurance policies, reviewing the wording of the various insurance policies and evaluating bids and making recommendations to the relevant Tender Committee for the selection of the insurance policies to ensure adequacy and legal compliance at optimum cost.
• Manage the insurance claims process for all insurance policies including filing the required notices and claims and follow up with the insurance companies for settlement to ensure that the process is in compliance with the company standards.

• Provide accurate, relevant, and timely advice to the company and other members of staff on a variety of legal topics that relate to the business sector and their products or services to protect the interest of the company.
• Strategically manage complex external investigation and litigation surrounding critical business issues. The role shall include but not limited to; (a) managing external counsels and carefully manage budgets in respect of the above external investigation and disputes; (b) proactively advise the business regarding the risks associated with the internal, external investigations and disputes; (c) working alongside user departments to collect data in respect of the internal, external investigations and disputes and provide support to the external counsels to mitigate risks;
  
  and (d) contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of handling the internal, external investigations and disputes by obtaining all necessary approvals needed regarding contentious aspects.
• Conduct extensive legal research related to all legal matters to maximize knowledge in legalities pertaining to relevant matters and offer informed legal advice in the…