Legal Associate

Job purpose

Legal and corporate responsibilities

• Support legal matter intake, document preparation, correspondence, filing, execution, tracking, and follow-ups.
• Prepare and update constitutional documents, resolutions, notices, declarations, NOCs, and other routine corporate documents.
• Maintain corporate records and registers, including incorporation documents, licenses, registrations, shareholder records, resolutions, and powers of attorney.
• Coordinate notarization, attestation, legalization, translation, document execution, and electronic signatures.
• Support incorporations, amendments, share transfers, branch registrations, liquidations, company secretarial administration, and corporate action renewals.
• Prepare standard legal documents and provide approved records for KYC, banking, tender, and due diligence requests.
• Conduct basic legal and corporate research, maintain legal templates and trackers, and coordinate with internal stakeholders.
• Comply with HSE and information security policies, protect confidential information, and report security incidents when required.

Qualifications and experience

• A bachelor's degree in law (LLB) or equivalent legal qualification is preferred; a lawyer qualification is not required.
• A paralegal, legal administration, or company secretarial qualification is advantageous.
• At least 2 years of experience in paralegal, legal administration, corporate secretarial, or legal support work is required.
• Experience preparing and managing corporate documents, powers of attorney, resolutions, and related records is required.
• UAE corporate administration experience, including notarization, attestation, and government or free-zone processes, is strongly preferred.
• Multi-entity organization and corporate register experience is advantageous; familiarity with ADGM, UAE mainland/free-zone, and GCC corporate requirements is preferred.

Competencies

• Excellent English communication skills are required; Arabic is highly advantageous.
• Strong legal drafting, document management, research, and analytical capabilities.
• Attention to detail, organization, deadline management, issue escalation, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Professionalism, discretion, confidentiality, and a proactive, service-oriented approach.
• Ability to use legal technology, document management platforms, and AI tools responsibly.