Legal Counsel - FinTech

placeAbu Dhabi calendar_month 
Lead debt recovery, collections, and pre-litigation activities across the UAE.
  • Manage external counsel and oversee claims, enforcement, and litigation matters.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial, lending, and financing agreements.
  • Advise the business on lending, trade finance, credit, and day-to-day commercial legal matters.
  • Support new market entries, licensing activities, and corporate structuring initiatives.
  • Partner with commercial, product, and operational teams to identify risks and deliver practical legal solutions.
  • Develop legal processes, governance frameworks, and policies while monitoring regulatory developments.
Join as the first in-house legal hire in a scaling fintechBroad exposure across lending, trade finance & regulation
  • Lead debt recovery, collections, and pre-litigation activities across the UAE.
  • Manage external counsel and oversee claims, enforcement, and litigation matters.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial, lending, and financing agreements.
  • Advise the business on lending, trade finance, credit, and day-to-day commercial legal matters.
  • Support new market entries, licensing activities, and corporate structuring initiatives.
  • Partner with commercial, product, and operational teams to identify risks and deliver practical legal solutions.
  • Develop legal processes, governance frameworks, and policies while monitoring regulatory developments.
  • Fluent Arabic is mandatory for this position

Our client is a fast-growing fintech business developing an innovative procurement and trade finance ecosystem across the UAE and wider region. Backed by a strong growth strategy, the business is expanding its products, market presence, and operational capabilities.

  • Opportunity to shape the legal function within a rapidly expanding fintech business.
  • Significant exposure to technology, procurement, lending, regulatory, and commercial projects.
  • Highly competitive package with family benefits and bonus potential
  • Fluent Arabic is mandatory for this position
local_fire_departmentUrgent

Legal Counsel

apartmentADNOCplaceAbu Dhabi
related agreements, projects and activities and  •  ADNOC Group Corporate support activities (e.g. recharging, service level arrangements etc.). Role Summary Key components of the role are:  •  Provide legal counsel and advice to PT&CS and TEO as a Legal...
check_circleNew offer

Legal Counsel (UAE National)

apartmentAbu Dhabi Commercial BankplaceAbu Dhabi
on the legal implications of commercial decisions and transaction structures under the guidance of Senior Legal Counsel.  •  Manage simple to moderately complex transactions by liaising with external counsel (if required) and the business to achieve commercial...
apartmentemea legal in-house legal recruitmentplaceAbu Dhabi
Corporate & Advisory Support:  •  Deliver day-to-day corporate and commercial legal counsel across business units.  •  Draft and manage official legal correspondence in Arabic and English with external bodies, government entities, and regulatory authorities...