Legal counsel

1. Provide effective, reliable and user-friendly support, advice and assistance to senior managers within DP World on legal matters affecting any aspect of DP World’s business. Acting under the instructions and directions of Senior Legal Counsel and VP Corporate Legal & General Counsel.
2. Review, draft and negotiate a broad range of legal documents relevant to the assigned business unit (including consultancy agreements, services agreements, Lease agreements, MOU’s, NDA’s) ensuring that legal requirements are met within such documents.
3. Provide reliable, commercially focused, advice in an efficient and effective manner.
4. Identify and analyze legal issues arising in transactions and new projects. Make clear and commercially focused recommendations in respect of such issues after review by Senior Legal Counsel.
5. Analyze material legal queries and provide legal opinion.
6. Provide effective reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel.
7. Liaise with external counsel as required and streamline communications between other departments/ business units and external lawyers to ensure cost efficiency. Provide external legal counsel with clear and explicit instructions. Oversee and review work carried out by external legal counsel.
8. Filing and maintaining legal records of all the legal documentation for future reference.
9. Promote and demonstrate positive behaviors in harmony with DP World’s values and culture.
10. Perform other related duties as assigned by the direct line manager and head of department.

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With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 115,000 employees from 160 nationalities, spanning 78 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimizing disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

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