Associate Legal Counsel, Business Legal

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Manage regional corporate governance, external service providers and law firms, related budgets, and spend.
• Maintain corporate books, minute books, registers, statutory records, governance libraries, regional materials, and templates.
• Maintain and update DiliTrust Governance and produce routine or custom reports.
• Prepare governance documents and coordinate meetings of boards, managers, shareholders, partners, and other governing bodies.
• Ensure compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements and internal company policies and procedures.
• Coordinate annual filings, license renewals, beneficial ownership and economic substance reporting, registrations, director and officer changes, powers of attorney, and other local statutory requirements.
• Support incorporations, restructurings, mergers, liquidations, dissolutions, branch establishments, and deregistrations.
• Support M&A and Innovation teams on acquisitions, divestitures, investments, entity creation, due diligence, antitrust filing information, and post-acquisition integration.
• Partner with regional business and corporate stakeholders on governance initiatives and legal entity projects; monitor legal developments and advise on compliance.
• Maintain accurate entity data, improve governance processes and controls, provide training, and develop templates, policies, procedures, and playbooks.

Qualifications

• Law degree focused on corporate law, business law, or a related field.
• Ideally 2 or more years of relevant corporate governance, corporate secretarial, corporate law, or legal entity management experience.
• Experience supporting entities in multiple jurisdictions, preferably in the Middle East.
• Strong drafting, project management, advisory, analytical, and communication skills; ability to work independently and in a global team.
• Written and spoken Arabic and English are mandatory; French is preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, Adobe, DiliTrust Governance, or similar subsidiary management tools.
• Integrity, sound business judgment, discretion, credibility, and professional ethics; flexibility to coordinate across time zones.

Rewards

• The employer describes a total rewards package intended to support employees and their families, career growth, wellbeing, and community contribution; country-specific programs may be available.