SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, SAUDI NATIONAL, JEDDAH
- Employer
- Taylor Root
- Location
- Saudi Arabia, Jeddah
- Closing date
- 17 Oct 2021
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, In-House
- Experience Level
- Mid Level, Senior Executive
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Company/Commercial, Corporate, Transport (Including aviation and shipping)
- PQE
- 7+ Years, Partner
Job Details
SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, SAUDI NATIONAL, JEDDAH
The Saudi market is in growth mode, and a wide variety of companies and projects continue to expand their operations, which is having a knock on effect to legal resources.
CLIENT: We are instructed to work with a leading industrial company, who need a new corporate and commercial lawyer for their Jeddah based operations. You will need to be a Saudi national in order to be applicable.
ROLE: Forming part of a small legal team, you'll be offering corporate and commercial advice to the business. Reporting lines will cover senior management on the ground un KSA. This is intended to be a mid to senior level position.
CANDIDATE: Ideal candidates will need to fulfil the following:
- At least 7+ years of post-qualified experience.
- General corporate and commercial work.
- You must have significant exposure to working in the KSA market.
- Exposure to having worked at a strong law firm, with additional in-house being preferred.
- Fluent Arabic language skills across spoken, reading and writing.
- Happy to be based in Jeddah.
- It's essential that you're a Saudi national.
If you think you could be suitable and fulfil the relevant criteria, please do get in touch.
REF: PR/201619
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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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