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We are currently recruiting a Senior Legal Counsel – Commercial law - Procurement to be based in Abu Dhabi. You will be responsible for providing strategic legal support and advice on procurement-related matters across various jurisdictions. This includes drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts for the procurement of goods, services, and materials essential to operations, including but not limited to nuclear fuel, spare parts, manpower, and insurance, ensuring regulatory compliance, and mitigating legal risks associated with procurement activities. You will be in the range of 8-12 yrs PQE, holding a law degree (Juris Doctorate or equivalent) from a major law school and admitted as an attorney in the UK, Australia, New Zealand or similar jurisdiction.

Responsibilities :

• Procurement Contracts Management

Draft, review, and negotiate procurement contracts across multiple jurisdictions, including :

Purchase of nuclear fuel and related components.

Advise on legal considerations and compliance requirements for procurement transactions across various jurisdictions.

Assess and address differences in legal systems and procurement regulations in international markets.

Ensure that procurement activities comply with relevant regulatory frameworks, including export controls, nuclear safety regulations, and other applicable laws.

Stay informed on changes to international, regional, and local laws affecting procurement, including nuclear-specific regulations.

Identify and manage legal risks associated with procurement and supply chain activities.

Required :

Ideally have :

The package will be highly competitive (they are a highly coveted employer in the region); benefits include relocation, annual bonus, education allowance for up to four children under 18 years, car loan instalment for five years, interest-free, end-of-service gratuity payment, equivalent to one month of basic salary for each full year of service.

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The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join our EY Law practice as a Data Protection Lawyer where you will have the chance to work with many high-profile organizations on a range of diverse and interesting legal advisory projects that span a multitude of countries and borders as you advise clients on data protection laws.

Your key responsibilities

1. Managing the successful delivery of legal advisory projects related to data protection laws and regulations, particularly the GDPR, UAE PDPL, and KSA PDPL.
2. Providing advice related to data transfer rules and regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
3. Advising clients regarding hosting and data localization requirements.
4. Delivering training and awareness programs for the client's employees.

Skills and attributes for success

We are looking for someone who will create a distinctive and differentiated law brand with us: this role is best suited for aspiring law professionals who have worked in established law firms in the MENA region, and who wish to continue developing their career with this greenfield opportunity by being part of a growing team looking to create a new and successful legal practice.

As such, you should have a solid understanding of data protection regulations and the ability to provide expert legal advice to ensure compliance with these laws, especially those related to GDPR, UAE PDPL, DIFC and ADGM data protection laws, and KSA PDPL.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 4 years of experience as a qualified lawyer from a reputable legal practice environment with a focus on data protection laws.
• Strong understanding of data protection principles and practices.
• Excellent legal drafting and negotiation skills.
• Excellent English communication, collaboration, self-management, and project management skills.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Fluency in Arabic, both written and spoken.

What we look for

We are interested in aspiring legal professionals with an enthusiastic, flexible, and positive approach to work and challenges who are interested in building their career within a rapidly developing, fast-paced environment.

What we offer you

At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

To help create an equitable and inclusive experience during the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible about any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

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Location: Dubai

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Requisition ID: 1583610

EY Law - Financial Regulatory Lawyer – Manager, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

In today's ever-changing and interconnected world, organizations working across borders require access to constant, effective, and accurate legal advice to ensure both ethical and business compliance throughout their operations. Our globally recognized EY Law service line does exactly that and more with over 2000 lawyers covering more than 83 jurisdictions, allowing us to deliver exceptional legal advice to our clients and resolve complex business challenges for a better working world.

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join our EY Law practice based in Dubai , United Arab Emirates as a Financial Regulatory Lawyer at the Manager level.

You can expect to be involved in a multitude of complex transactions and engagements related to the banking and finance sector across multiple countries within the Middle East, helping our clients deal with the evolution of their business and providing them with valuable advice on how to run and sustain their activities with respect to laws, regulations, and market conditions both locally and abroad.

You will also have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning to support your growth as a law professional and extend that same development to others within your team.

Your Key Responsibilities

You will spend your time managing the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding legal projects within the banking and finance sectors. This will require you to have a working knowledge of the industry both locally and globally and be able to explain and sustain an average business conversation on how the industry operates, its current trends, and legal or regulatory hot topics. In doing so, you will also build and maintain new and existing client relationships both internally and externally.

Finally, you will also help people to develop through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring of other members of your team while simultaneously adhering to EY's protocols and policies for client engagements and interactions.

Skills and Attributes for Success

We are looking for someone who will create a distinctive and differentiated law brand with us. This role is best suited for law professionals who have worked in established law firms, and who wish to develop their career with this greenfield opportunity by being part of a growing team looking to create a new and successful legal practice.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• At least 5 years of post-qualification experience as a qualified lawyer from a reputable legal practice environment.
• Strong technical knowledge and skills with regards to laws and regulations within the banking & finance industry in the MENA region.
• Good working knowledge of the banking & finance industry, its business trends, industry jargon, and how its entities function and operate (e.g commercial banks, investment banks, investment funds, etc).
• Solid awareness of the documentary structure of ordinary transactions and familiarity with the structure of typical legal deliverables (e.g., executive summary, legal issues memorandum, legal opinion).
• Strong client relationship-building capabilities combined with strategic and commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, self-management, negotiation, and project management skills.
• The ability to create, sustain, and lead effective work teams.

Ideally, you also have:

• The ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically.
• An enthusiastic, flexible and positive approach to work and challenges.
• The ability to get up to speed quickly.
• Keenness to continue developing your legal skills and engaging in new areas of work.
• Experience in coaching and developing more junior staff.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you'll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.

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Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

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EY Law Financial Regulatory Lawyer Manager Dubai United Arab Emirates

In todays everchanging and interconnected world organizations working across borders require access to constant effective and accurate legal advice to ensure both ethical and business compliance throughout their operations. Our globally recognized EY Law service line does exactly that and more with over 2000 lawyers covering more than 83 jurisdictions allowing us to deliver exceptional legal advice to our clients and resolve complex business challenges for a better working world.

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join our EY Law practice based in Dubai United Arab Emirates as a Financial Regulatory Lawyer at the Manager level.

You can expect to be involved in a multitude of complex transactions and engagements related to the banking and finance sector across multiple countries within the Middle East helping our clients deal with the evolution of their business and providing them with valuable advice on how to run and sustain their activities with respect to laws regulations and market conditions both locally and abroad.

You will also have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements mentoring and formal learning to support your growth as a law professional and extend that same development to others within your team.

Your Key Responsibilities

You will spend your time managing the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding legal projects within the banking and finance sectors. This will require you to have a working knowledge of the industry both locally and globally and be able to explain and sustain an average business conversation on how the industry operates its current trends and legal or regulatory hot topics. In doing so you will also build and maintain new and existing client relationships both internally and externally.

Finally you will also help people to develop through effectively supervising coaching and mentoring of other members of your team while simultaneously adhering to EYs protocols and policies for client engagements and interactions.

Skills and Attributes for Success

We are looking for someone who will create a distinctive and differentiated law brand with us. This role is best suited for law professionals who have worked in established law firms and who wish to develop their career with this greenfield opportunity by being part of a growing team looking to create a new and successful legal practice.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• At least 5 years of postqualification experience as a qualified lawyer from a reputable legal practice environment.
• Strong technical knowledge and skills with regards to laws and regulations within the banking & finance industry in the MENA region.
• Good working knowledge of the banking & finance industry its business trends industry jargon and how its entities function and operate (e.g commercial banks investment banks investment funds etc).
• Solid awareness of the documentary structure of ordinary transactions and familiarity with the structure of typical legal deliverables (e.g. executive summary legal issues memorandum legal opinion).
• Strong client relationshipbuilding capabilities combined with strategic and commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication presentation collaboration selfmanagement negotiation and project management skills.
• The ability to create sustain and lead effective work teams.

Ideally you also have:

• The ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically.
• An enthusiastic flexible and positive approach to work and challenges.
• The ability to get up to speed quickly.
• Keenness to continue developing your legal skills and engaging in new areas of work.
• Experience in coaching and developing more junior staff.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where youll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus we offer:

• Continuous learning: Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: Well provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
• Transformative leadership: Well give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. Its yours to build.

EY Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world helping to create longterm value for clients people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow transform and operate.

Working across assurance consulting law strategy tax and transactions EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Our client, an international law firm are wishing to recruit a qualified accountant with a minimum of two years experience in a law firm or professional services environment. You must already be based in Dubai.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage regional VAT filings and oversee corporate tax processes across regional offices.
• Respond to queries from regulatory bodies on tax assessments and liaise with tax auditors.
• Maintain the transfer pricing mechanism among regional offices, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Provide support to Payables and Revenue teams to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.
• Oversee Timekeeper rates and handle ad-hoc queries from Timekeepers, supporting their time recording and client information requirements.
• Assist in financial audits and ensure the implementation of audit recommendations.

Required Experience, Skills, and Knowledge:

• Experience: Minimum of 2 years working with an accounting firm in the UAE. Prior experience in the service or legal industry is advantageous.
• Education: University Graduate or Post Graduate, with a major in Accounts preferred.
• Technical Skills: High proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with accounting platforms such as ELITE and 3E is an advantage.
• Language: Fluent in English, with strong communication skills (verbal and written).

Key Competencies:

• Disposition: Gentle yet disciplined and firm in actions, capable of fostering a supportive environment while upholding standards.
• Results-Oriented: Demonstrates a strong commitment to meeting deadlines, especially during reporting periods.
• Organizational Skills: Excellent planning and organizational skills to manage multiple responsibilities effectively.
• Team Environment: Contributes positively to a team-oriented culture, aligned with the firm’s values.
• Confidence in Management Engagement: Able to interact confidently with senior management, providing insights and suggestions as needed.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Innovation: Possesses the ability to challenge established practices constructively and propose effective alternatives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage regional VAT filings and oversee corporate tax processes across regional offices.
• Respond to queries from regulatory bodies on tax assessments and liaise with tax auditors.
• Maintain the transfer pricing mechanism among regional offices, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Provide support to Payables and Revenue teams to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.
• Oversee Timekeeper rates and handle ad-hoc queries from Timekeepers, supporting their time recording and client information requirements.
• Assist in financial audits and ensure the implementation of audit recommendations.

Required Experience, Skills, and Knowledge:

• Experience: Minimum of 2 years working with an accounting firm in the UAE. Prior experience in the service or legal industry is advantageous.
• Education: University Graduate or Post Graduate, with a major in Accounts preferred.
• Technical Skills: High proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with accounting platforms such as ELITE and 3E is an advantage.
• Language: Fluent in English, with strong communication skills (verbal and written).

Key Competencies:

• Disposition: Gentle yet disciplined and firm in actions, capable of fostering a supportive environment while upholding standards.
• Results-Oriented: Demonstrates a strong commitment to meeting deadlines, especially during reporting periods.
• Organizational Skills: Excellent planning and organizational skills to manage multiple responsibilities effectively.
• Team Environment: Contributes positively to a team-oriented culture, aligned with the firm’s values.
• Confidence in Management Engagement: Able to interact confidently with senior management, providing insights and suggestions as needed.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Innovation: Possesses the ability to challenge established practices constructively and propose effective alternatives.

Compliance Manager Role

The Compliance Manager role is responsible for managing legal matters within the organization. The ideal candidate will provide proactive, high-quality advice and risk assessment in compliance with organizational policies and external laws and regulations.

• Facilitate access to legal counsel for functional heads to defend the company in litigation cases.
• Review and comment on drafts of proposed MOUs, contracts, agreements, consents, terms of engagement, purchase and service orders, and contracts for project services.
• Coordinate defense of the company's legal interests through legal advisors and advocates.
• Advise on legal compliance issues.
• Negotiate with external parties to conclude agreements that are concise, clear, equitable, and adequately cover foreseeable grounds for dispute.
• Review country law and policy from a legal standpoint and advise the director accordingly.
• Obtain user inputs to clarify the company's points of view and legal position on case papers involving the company.
• Pursue arbitration cases within guidelines provided by the director.
• Conduct legal analyses and recommend courses of action on proposed changes in laws and regulations.

• Strong analytical thinking.
• Negotiation skills.
• Effective communication skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Law (LLB) with specialization in Marine Law.
• 10-12 years of experience with Middle East working exposure required.

The role of a Legal Advisor is crucial in ensuring organizational compliance and mitigating risks. This position involves providing expert legal advice and guidance on a wide range of matters, from analyzing complex legal issues to drafting important documents.

• Provide strategic solutions to complex legal issues
• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts to safeguard organizational interests
• Participate in meetings to offer legal insights and recommendations
• Monitor and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations
• Manage relationships with external legal counsels and vendors effectively

To excel in this role, the ideal candidate should possess a strong understanding of corporate law, contract law, and regulatory frameworks. Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills are also essential.

• A current license to practice law in the jurisdiction of employment
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a corporate legal environment
• Proficiency in legal research and documentation management software
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines

This role offers a unique opportunity for a skilled Legal Advisor to contribute significantly to decision-making processes and help navigate complex legal landscapes.

Job Opportunity

We are seeking a distinguished faculty member in Civil Law to join our academic community.

1. Academic Qualifications: A PhD in Civil Law or equivalent from a recognized university is required.
2. Research Record: Applicants must have a proven research record, including publications in Scopus-indexed journals. A strong publication history will be given priority.
3. Teaching Experience: At least five years of teaching experience at a reputable university, with competency in teaching in Arabic and English, are expected. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellent communication skills.

Applicants should submit their CV, academic qualifications, list of publications, and H-index details for review.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality undergraduate courses in Civil Law.
• Conduct research and publish in Scopus-indexed journals.
• Develop curriculum and assess student performance effectively.

About this Role

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and development of our academic programs.

Benefits

• A competitive salary package.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth within the institution.