Corporate Counsel

Job Description

Majid Al Futtaim Global Solutions invites you to join us in our quest to create great moments for everyone, everyday! We are the leading shopping mall, residential communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, serving over 560 million visitors a year. For the past two decades, we have shaped the consumer landscape across the region, transforming the way people shop, live and play, while maintaining a strong sustainability track record and the largest mall in the world to attain LEED Gold EBOM Certification. We have over 40,000 team members in 15 international markets representing over 100 nationalities – all keeping the customer at the heart of everything we do. If you enjoy being BOLD, PASSIONATE and TOGETHER, then Majid Al Futtaim is the destination for you.

Job Details – Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Act as a business partner to and work closely with all departments within GS to provide legal advices, specify internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks and deliver business – focused legal advice.
• Provide effective legal advice on various subjects/matters with the ability to develop and effectively communicate it, including the suggestion of alternative business solutions and best practices while considering client’s role, objectives and risk tolerance.
• Assess, manage, and prevent legal risks by research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of contracts, memoranda and other documents of a contractual nature, while minimize the company’s legal risks.
• Work with our stakeholders in our internal policy as per the local law and regulations.
• Deal with complex matters with multiple stakeholders and forces by providing timely and effective legal advice parallelly achieving MAF objectives.
• Review commercial and corporate documents ensuring law, regulations and internal policies’ compliance.
• Liaise with our external counsel/s on disputes and litigations.

• Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies
• Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information

Measure of Success – Illustrative KPIs:

• Give accurate and timely advise to executives in a variety of legal topics (labor law, Risk and Compliance, corporate finance etc.)

Personal Characteristics and Required Background:

• Bachelor and/or LLM of Law degree.
• Member of Egyptian Bar of Association.
• At least 7 years of business law experience at a large international law firm and/or multinational corporation’s legal department.
• In-house counsel experience.
• Open to travel when required.
• Bilingual is a must: English and Arabic.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Corporate thinking. 
• Global mindset.
• Strong sense of integrity and flexibility.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law and procedures
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity