Legal Advisor

25 أغسطس، 2022

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Legal Advisor

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Description

Petrofac is looking to recruit a Legal Advisor to join our Legal Services Team based in Sharjah, UAE.

What we do

Petrofac is a respected international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for the energy industries. Our comprehensive and tailored service offering covers each stage of the project life cycle and a variety of commercial models, giving our clients the flexibility they need.

Diversity & Inclusion

We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. Petrofac is striving to develop a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can contribute. Applications are also welcomed from candidates who want to discuss flexible working or job-sharing requests.

Main purpose of the role:

To give timely, high quality, pragmatic, commercial legal advice.
To help identify, qualify and mitigate legal risk (including associated material commercial risks) and add value by enabling well-informed decisions.
To support and drive organisational change, legal process improvements and support resourcing the business to understand and address legal risk.

Key Accountabilities:

Advise on implementation of corporate DoAs, contracting protocols (best practice) or similar.
Draft and negotiate preliminary agreements (e.g. confidentiality agreements, MOUs, heads of terms, bidding, consortium, collaboration, joint-venture and shareholder agreements).
Provide commercially pragmatic legal advice to bid teams and projects in many jurisdictions. Advise on implications of applicable local laws; engage, and manage external legal advisers to ensure appropriate and cost-effective advice is given.
Review proposed terms and conditions, support commercial functions with interpretation, analysis and drafting of qualifications (client-facing, subcontractors and suppliers).

Skills and Experience:

Professionally qualified lawyer (solicitor/barrister) with a UK or equivalent (and current, clean) professional practising certificate.
Minimum of 5-8 years’ PQE
Mix of private practice background (litigation and/or projects), with in-house experience preferred.
Drafting, contract interpretation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
Excellent technical legal skills, common law and/or civil law and commercial legal experience including good knowledge of construction and engineering law. Experience of dispute-resolution (inc litigation, arbitration, contractual escalation, expert determination, mediation, ADR, DRBs, DABs) is important.

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