Senior Legal Counsel

Job description / Role

Job purpose

Provide legal advice and guidance to the Company’s management and all divisions and departments in line with applicable regulations and corporate strategy. Optimally resolve legal issues, contain legal risks, and support management’s decision-making.

Key accountabilities

• Assess the Company’s contracts and agreements to ensure that the Company is not exposed to uncontrolled legal risk and that appropriate protective legal instruments are used to hedge against identified legal risks.
• Provide legal opinions on potential claims and disputes arising from the Company’s commercial matters, including those involving customers, suppliers, vendors, and contractors. Protect the Company’s rights, minimize its liability, and, where required, reach amicable settlements subject to management’s discretion.
• Provide legal assistance to the Company’s Corporate Governance and Ethics and Compliance departments.
• Provide legal advice and support to all Company divisions and departments, including Retail, Commercial, Operations, Human Capital, Finance, Strategy, and M&A, as well as to the Company’s management.

• Assess legal cases and lawsuits to understand the Company’s legal position and advise on their merits and potential value.
• Advise the Company’s management and all divisions and departments on legal matters. Prepare memoranda with recommendations and actions to be taken.
• Draft and review national and international agreements and templates.
• Manage litigation proceedings.

• Research and prepare relevant legal documentation under the supervision of the Associate General Counsel to support and manage external counsel.
• Ensure relevant, up-to-date legislative information is available to all relevant stakeholders.

• Represent the Company in courts, arbitrations, and other legal forums.

• Research legislation relevant to the Company to stay up to date on applicable laws.

Qualifications, experience, knowledge, and skills

Bachelor’s degree in law.

• Ten years of relevant experience as in-house counsel or in a law firm, with exposure to different areas of law.
• Good writing and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Experience in the oil and gas industry is preferred.

About the Company

We are one of the worlds leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.