Legal Manager

Role overview

Legal advice and business support

• Advise the CEO, executive team and managers on legal questions and provide clear, practical guidance that helps manage risk.
• Manage external counsel across jurisdictions, maintaining quality and delivery within deadlines and budgets.
• Maintain contract templates, guidelines and approval steps, and regularly report key matters, risks and deadlines to the CEO and CLO.

Governance and company secretarial work

• Support shareholder matters, board and shareholder meetings, resolutions, minutes and statutory registers.
• Maintain records for group entities, including trade licences, commercial registrations, powers of attorney and constitutional documents.
• Ensure compliance with delegation-of-authority and governance rules, and meet statutory filing and renewal deadlines across operating jurisdictions.

Commercial contracts and transactions

• Draft, review, negotiate and finalise supply, service, purchase, agency and lease contracts, NDAs, MOUs and letters of intent.
• Manage store leases for openings, renewals and exits; negotiate franchise, licensing and distribution agreements.
• Protect trademarks and other intellectual property through registrations and renewals.
• Support market entry, new entity set-up, financing and M&A projects with external counsel and tax advisers as needed.

Risk, compliance and disputes

• Identify, assess and manage legal and regulatory risk, and propose practical mitigation measures.
• Manage litigation, claims and legal notices with external counsel and maintain accurate dispute records.
• Draft and update the Code of Conduct, company policies and processes; advise HR on employment contracts, disciplinary cases, terminations and labour disputes.
• Advise on consumer and data protection, advertising, promotions, and retail-related customs and import rules.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Qualified to practise in Portugal and/or admitted as a UK solicitor, with a law degree or equivalent.
• At least five years of post-qualification experience in corporate and commercial law, in-house and/or at a reputable law firm.
• Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience; able to manage legal matters independently.
• Working knowledge of corporate governance and company secretarial work, and experience in employment law, litigation or disputes, including public-authority procedures.
• Experience instructing and managing external counsel; able to advise senior managers and explain legal risk plainly.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English; all work is conducted in English.

Desirable experience

• International experience outside the country of qualification, particularly in a multicultural team, is strongly preferred.
• UAE or wider GCC legal experience is preferred but not required.
• Retail, fashion or comparable consumer-sector experience, and franchise, licensing or trademark experience, are desirable.
• Arabic knowledge is an advantage.

About Sacoor Brothers

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