Description
General Counsel
Bespin Global
LOCATION
Abu Dhabi, AZ
Description
- Bespin Global is your Cloud and Digital Transformation partner, with a proven track record of helping our clients make their digital transformation as seamless as possible. Our team of highly skilled and experienced professionals provide a holistic approach to cloud adoption and innovation, enabling our clients to remain competitive in the ever-changing digital landscape. With our Learn, Do, Share motto, we focus on developing talent and expertise across world-wide technologies. Our General Counsel provides legal advice and guidance, manages legal risks and ensures compliance with laws and regulations, and negotiates contracts on behalf of the company. We are dedicated to our clients success and are here to help them evolve and transform their business.
- • Oversee a company's overall legal strategy and evaluate the effectiveness of Bespin Global policies and procedures, often in situations of great political, public relations, or financial risk.
- • Provides legal counsel and guidance to the senior management on all legal matters relevant to personnel law, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations, and laws pertaining to commercial contracts, tax matters, liability and legal compliance.
- • Anticipates and identifies legal issues and counsels senior management in a timely manner.
- • Reviews, researches, interprets, and prepares both written and oral opinions on a wide variety of legal issues.
- • Drafts, reviews, and approves policies and procedures, regulations, bylaws, and other legal documents.
- • Reviews contracts, leases, and other legal documents; researches legal issues and recommends revisions as necessary.
- • Represents or oversees the representation of Bespin global and upper management in judicial and administrative proceedings, and in negotiations with other judicial entities or disputes.
- • Designs, establishes, and maintains an legal team structure and hiring to effectively accomplish the organization's goals and objectives; oversees recruitment, training, supervision, and evaluation of legal team.
- • Develops and manages annual budgets for the legal division and performs periodic cost and productivity analyses.
- • Selects and retains outside counsel, as required, to obtain legal opinions or to handle claims and litigation.
- • Supervises legal work of other legal counsels, paralegals, and outside counsel; consults on difficult or sensitive issues.
- • Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest developments in technology law and in other related areas.
- • Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
Experience & Educational Background:
- • Minimum of Bachelor Degree in Law
- • Minimum of 10 years of experience with ICT, telecom, or any related field within the UAE
- • Has working knowledge of the KSA laws & regulations is a plus
- • Must be proficient in UAE business & labor law and have demonstrated experience in leading a legal function.
- • Experience in advising on legal disputes with regards to commercial contracts and labor disputes.
About Bespin Global
Bespin Global is here to help clients adopt cloud to enable business and digital innovation. At Bespin Global, we're obsessed with our client's digital transformation journey, making it as seamless as possible and ensuring all their business needs are met. We ensure all needs are met by providing skillful talents and expertise across world wide technologies. Our Learn, Do, Share motto is the key behind it all. We're focused on our Bespiners as much as we are with our clients.
Learn more at https://www.bespinglobal.ae