Job Purpose: Responsible for providing expert and professional legal advice, solutions and recommendations on legal aspects, as well as organizing and coordinating the activities of the Legal Department, to ensure that all the business operations of the company are in line with the local and international regulations.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Implement the Legal Department's policies and procedures and comply with AAW's other policies.
- Draft, comment upon, review, negotiate and finalize all contractual agreements of AAW from a legal point of view and provide legal opinion, in order to ensure adequacy of the same and alignment with AAW's best interest.
- Review contracts that involve Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions, IPOs and private placements from a legal standpoint, and highlight the legal risks and how to mitigate such risks.
- Provide advice on all legal matters to protect AAW's interest by ensuring compliance with all applicable statutes, rules and regulations and minimize liability, while highlighting the legal risks and providing business and legal solutions.
- Review, examine and manage all kinds of cases such as fraud, embezzlement, theft, compensation and damage that might occur within AAW and provide appropriate legal advice in this regard.
- Advise all levels of management from various Business Divisions/Departments on all new developments on legal matters and new applicable laws, in addition to keeping them informed about all legislations affecting AAW's dealings.
- Render legal services to AAW and its subsidiaries and affiliates as the case may be required by the CLO.
- Provide recommendation regarding risk mitigation tactics to the management and business team, based on expertise and research conducted on legal issues and risks.
- Act proactively and liaise with all Business Divisions and Departments to ensure that all legal risks have been identified and prepare necessary action plans to mitigate identified risks and prevent their occurrence in the future.
- Propose, draft and review internal policies and preventive law and compliance policies to reduce company exposure to legal risk and assist with HR matters, compliance matters and the assurance of consistent compliance with company policies.
- Consult and liaise with external law firms in order to obtain legal advice where necessary.
- Attend Board meetings and other external meetings required to offer legal opinion on discussed related issues, if requested by the CLO.
- Implement and maintain preventive law strategies, corporate policy and compliance programs to help minimize litigation, third-party disputes and other potential project development and implementation problems.
- Keep up-to-date with new laws and regulations of the country in order to provide the right information to Group Legal Counsel to make sound decisions.
- Review and validate all contracts before final signing and propose appropriate amendments to confirm alignment with AAW's interests.
- Perform ad-hoc and other duties related to the job as assigned by the Chief Legal Officer and the Chairman and CEO, which might be sought from time to time with respect to the duties and responsibilities of the legal consultant.
