Legal Corporate Affairs Consultant

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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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ZainTech

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201 - 500 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

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ZainTech is Zain Group’s dedicated regional Digital & ICT powerhouse, driving transformation and enablement of enterprise and government customers through the development and adoption of the latest technologies. These capabilities extend to Cloud, IoT, Cybersecurity, Big Data & Analytics, Drones, and Robotics, as well as an extensive suite of Digital Products & Solutions across Smart Cities, in collaboration with world-class partners. The establishment of ZainTech consolidated Zain Group’s key Digital and ICT assets under one roof to provide end-to-end solution propositions centered on a one-stop provision of comprehensive enterprise digital solutions and transformation services. The organization offers a single point of contact for sales and personalized customer care for multi-national corporations with a presence across the region.

📋 Description

• Support the Legal function in corporate secretarial, entity management, statutory compliance, and legal matters across the Group’s GCC, Middle East, Africa, and offshore entities. • Coordinate corporate filings, licensing, regulatory requirements, and entity compliance with internal teams, authorities, registered agents, and external counsel. • Support entity consolidation and rationalization initiatives, including liquidation and strike-off of redundant entities. • Draft, coordinate, circulate and maintain Board resolutions, written resolutions, meeting minutes and related corporate approvals. • Draft and coordinate shareholder resolutions, general assembly resolutions and minutes. • Assess corporate approval levels and confirm approval requirements, voting thresholds, quorum, execution formalities and filing requirements. • Coordinate signatures, notarization, legalization, attestation and regulatory filings. • Maintain registers of Board and shareholder resolutions and minutes. • Prepare and format corporate documents in Arabic and English and coordinate certified legal translations. • Manage annual legal entity compliance calendars, shareholder meetings, annual audited financial statement approvals, auditor appointments and recurring corporate filings. • Prepare resolutions for dividends, profit distributions and statutory or legal reserves. • Coordinate appointments, resignations, removals and replacements of directors, managers and officers. • Manage authorized signatories, signing authorities and powers of representation. • Prepare banking resolutions, powers of attorney, delegations and corporate authorizations. • Coordinate corporate documents required by banks for KYC, account maintenance and changes in corporate authorities. • Manage corporate changes involving directors, registered offices, addresses, company names, licensed activities, constitutional documents, ownership, shareholding and capital. • Coordinate establishment of subsidiaries, branches and other legal entities. • Support mergers, restructurings, liquidations, deregistrations and entity closures. • Coordinate license renewals, amendments and entity-level registrations. • Support entity consolidation, including business, asset, contract and employee transfers and related intra-group documentation. • Coordinate solvent voluntary liquidations, strike-offs and deregistrations end-to-end and maintain closure trackers. • Maintain statutory registers, corporate records, constitutional documents, licenses, certificates, approvals and filings in an audit-ready repository. • Prepare economic substance notifications and returns and beneficial ownership filings, including UBO registers and BVI filings. • Maintain jurisdictional corporate compliance matrices and monitor changes in corporate legislation and statutory requirements. • Identify compliance gaps, overdue actions and legal or compliance risks and support remediation. • Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Tax, Treasury, HR, Procurement, senior management, external counsel, service providers, auditors, banks, notaries and authorities. • Provide corporate documentation for audits, tenders, banking KYC, regulatory reviews and transactions. • Review, draft and negotiate NDAs, service and vendor agreements, intra-group agreements, MoUs, engagement letters and powers of attorney. • Advise internal teams on contractual terms, risk allocation, approval requirements and execution formalities. • Provide day-to-day legal guidance on corporate, commercial and compliance queries. • Maintain contract templates, playbooks and clause libraries in Arabic and English. • Coordinate contract execution formalities and maintain executed contracts in the contract repository. • Support transactions, tenders and projects requiring contractual and corporate secretarial input.

🎯 Requirements

• Relevant experience in corporate secretarial, entity management or in-house legal operations. • Experience supporting a multi-entity and multi-jurisdictional corporate structure is strongly preferred. • Good understanding of corporate law principles, Board and shareholder legal compliance, statutory filings and corporate authorities. • Strong drafting skills, particularly for Board and shareholder resolutions, minutes, powers of attorney and corporate approvals. • Solid experience in reviewing and drafting commercial contracts and providing practical legal advice to internal stakeholders, with sound commercial judgement and the ability to identify and escalate material legal risk. • Strong organisational and project-management skills with the ability to manage multiple jurisdictions and statutory deadlines. • High attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate, complete and audit-ready corporate records. • Ability to work independently with local counsel and internal stakeholders and escalate legal issues appropriately. • Proficiency in document and entity-management tools, MS Office (advanced Word), and the ability to maintain a structured corporate repository and compliance calendar; familiarity with e-signature and document-management platforms. • Full professional proficiency in Arabic and English, including the ability to draft, review and format corporate documents and correspondence in both languages, and to handle Arabic-language notarization, attestation and authority filings. • Bachelor’s degree in Law, Legal Studies, Corporate Legal compliance or a related field.