ABU DHABI - CONSTRUCTION/PROJECTS - ASSOCIATE/SENIOR ASSOCIATE
- Employer
- Newbold Search
- Location
- Abu Dhabi (Emirate) (AE)
- Salary
- Highly competitive tax-free salary plus bonus, private health care and full relocation costs
- Closing date
- 21 Jun 2023
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, Private Practice
- Experience Level
- Junior Level, Mid Level, Senior Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Construction, PPP/PFI/Commercial projects
- PQE
- 1-3 Years, 4-6 Years, 7+ Years
Job Details
**ABU DHABI – CONSTRUCTION/PROJECTS (FRONT END) – ASSOCIATE/SENIOR ASSOCIATE**
Our client is one of the longest standing international law firms in the United Arab Emirates.
It is known for its expertise in the oil and gas, construction and infrastructure and real estate sectors, along with solid experience in, private equity investments, and corporate and commercial transactions.
Its International Construction Practice has an outstanding track record on large, often ground-breaking and iconic construction and infrastructure projects, acting for a range of clients including multinational corporates, regional and local businesses based in the UAE, Middle East and globally. The Abu Dhabi team particularly focuses on large infrastructure projects in the oil and gas/petrochemical sector, but also has regular involvement in projects across the GCC region in other sectors, working closely with the firm’s high profile real estate, energy and infrastructure teams.
Day to day workload done by the team includes advising on, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of construction / EPC contracts and ancillary documentation, including security documentation, operations and maintenance contracts and other related agreements. This is a collegiate and high performing group, offering excellent training and development and offers the opportunity to work with other lawyers with high levels of regional expertise.
Due to organic growth, it now seeking to hire two new associates into the team at Associate (2-5 year pqe) and Senior Associate (6-8 year pqe) levels.
Requirements for the role include:
- Excellent academics;
- Common law/UK/Australasian/Canadian qualified front end construction/projects lawyer;
- International law firm experience;
- Prior GCC experience is a plus;
- Fully fluent English language skills, Arabic a plus.
Apply today to take your career as a front end construction lawyer forward within one of the closest-knit, high performing teams in the Abu Dhabi legal market.
Newbold Search
Newbold Search is a leading legal recruitment boutique that specialises in placing common law trained lawyers overseas into private practice and in-house.
With longstanding global client relationships, Newbold Search operates in a wide range of legal markets including:
The Middle East
The United Kingdom and Ireland
The Cayman Islands
Bermuda
The BVI
Jersey and Guernsey
Asia
Company
Jamie Newbold is a well-known and highly respected name in the global legal recruitment industry. Prior to launching Newbold Search, he was a Partner at Taylor Root. Over his twenty year career in legal recruitment, Jamie forged a reputation recruiting lawyers into the offshore jurisdictions, the Middle East and Asia as well as placing partners in London. Jamie was responsible for opening Taylor Root’s Dubai office in 2007 and also their Singapore office in 2010. He has a wealth of experience of placing lawyers around the world that is unmatched. Many of his placements are now leaders of their respective firms.
Jamie was previously a commercial litigation solicitor at Norton Rose and Theodore (Addleshaw) Goddard.
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