SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, OIL AND GAS, ABU DHABI
- Employer
- Taylor Root
- Location
- United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
- Closing date
- 9 Mar 2019
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, In-House
- Experience Level
- Mid Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Company/Commercial, Corporate, Energy
- PQE
- 4-6 Years, 7+ Years
Job Details
SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, OIL AND GAS, ABU DHABI
CLIENT: This is a rare position, available for candidates looking to join a large and diverse oil and gas company.
ROLE: Working closely with a new General Counsel you will be tasked with both establishing and developing the legal function. The work will cover a broad spectrum of O&G sector work such as corporate, commercial, projects, construction, disputes, compliance and regulatory. It will range from large deals such as M&A with extensive drafting and negotiating, and working with external business partners down to more general day to day matters.
CANDIDATE: It is essential that you have trained and qualified with a strong international standard law firm, and ideally on top of that, will have in-house experience. It is a mid to senior level role and candidates will need 4+ years' PQE. Your skill sets should have extensive experience in O&G and large projects work, as well corporate, commercial and standard in-house work.
It is essential that you are either based in the Middle East already, or have extensive exposure of previously working in the region.
REF: MA/1039082
Please note that the jobs advertised here may represent just a selection of all the in-house roles we have running across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region from our hub office in Dubai. To have a full overview of all the international roles available right now, please visit our constantly updated website at www.taylorroot.com
The SR Group (Dubai) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Company
Established in the 1980s, Taylor Root is now widely recognised as being one of the world’s leading legal recruiters. Operating out of offices in the UK, Dubai, Asia and Australia, we are ideally placed to assist law firms, banks and companies with their legal recruitment on an international basis. Taylor Root has a strong track record in the recruitment of: Heads of legal and legal advisers; Law firm associates and partners; Contract/locum lawyers; Paralegals; Company secretaries and Compliance professionals.
We regularly recruit for positions in all of the following regions: Western and Eastern Europe; The Middle East; Asia including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, mainland China and Bangkok; Australia and New Zealand, across The Caribbean and Offshore locations. .
In areas such as Project Finance, Derivatives or Capital Markets, where an international search is appropriate, our offices aim to provide truly global coverage and deliver a comprehensive candidate shortlist.
Through hard work, a professional and ethical approach, and not being afraid to be objective, Taylor Root continues to foster excellent, long-term candidate and client relationships throughout all of its offices.
Taylor Root is a member of The SR Group. The SR Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy dedicated to raising standards in the business environments that we serve. The sectors we cover include tax, legal, human resources, marketing, professional support and executive search, dealing with a substantial number of the world's leading professional partnerships, multi-national corporations and international banking groups as well as small to medium sized developing organisations.
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