Arabic speaking Legal Assistant

business VS Group
location_on Dubai
work full-time
0 months ago

Description

Arabic speaking Legal Assistant VS Group Any Arab National, Any European National, Any Anglophone National Any Vacancy 1 Vacancy Job Description About the job Position : Legal Assistant Location : Dubai, UAE Industry : Shipping, Oil & Gas, Energy and Projects The Company: The Company is part of a wider group of companies and entities that specialises in oil tanker shipping, oil & petroleum trading in the UAE, and consisting of a state-of-the-art oil terminal in Iraq. The Role: The Legal Assistant will be proactive and detail-oriented, providing support and reporting to the Legal Manager. He/ She will support and provide legal administrative assistance to the Legal Manager across a broad range of business areas and units, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, managing contractual matters, overseeing/ managing corporate governance, assisting with strategic restructuring and ensuring compliance with all UAE and international laws and regulations. He/ She will also be given a wide range of responsibilities and ability to grow and develop. ____________________________________________________________________ Key Responsibilities: 1. Documentary and Contract Support: · Draft, format and maintain legal documentation, including a variety of contracts and corporate documents, corporate resolutions, powers of attorney; · Assist with maintaining records of contracts, terms sheets, corporate resolutions, documents, NDAs, sale & purchase contracts, charterparties, oil & petroleum and terminal contracts; · Liaise with or send correspondence in transactional deals/ negotiations. 2. Corporate Governance: · Draft, format and maintain records of templates, resolutions, minutes of board meetings and other corporate documents, certificates and company agreements for all on-shore and off-shore companies; · Liaise with corporate registries, assist with corporate annual renewals/ filings; · Liaise with and manage legalisations, notarisations and legal translations of POAs with ministries, registries and notary publics. 3. KYC/ Due Diligence and Compliance: · Maintain, review and assist in KYC onboarding with counterparts; · Maintain accurate files, records and compliance screening reports of counterparts/ entities and KYC documentation; · Screen, save and record compliance screening reports; 4. General Administrative Support: · Creates and manages hard and soft (electronic) filing systems proactively. · Printing, scanning, filing, formatting, editing, saving and recording of all documents and agreements; · Setting up virtual meetings, organising and creating filing systems and of hard paper and soft copy files/ folders, organising documents, data input/ capturing. · Prepare slide shows, spreadsheets, presentations electronically. Preferred qualifications/ experience: · 5+ years of legal secretarial or paralegal work in the shipping, oil & gas/ energy industry, ideally with professional secretarial and legal assistance experience. · Superior English verbal and writing language skills · Must be extremely efficient with MS Office and Email, and be familiar with legal documents, contracts, corporate documents. · Able to work under pressure and in a team environment; · Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to build relationships · Excellent time management and typing/ formatting skills; · Excellent organisational, document management and filing skills. · Maintains confidentiality, reliable and trustworthy; · Additional language such as Arabic is a plus. · Must be based in or at least have worked in the UAE. Experience within a fast-paced or multinational environment, and ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines Disclaimer: Naukrigulf.com is only a platform to bring jobseekers & employers together. Applicants are advised to research the bonafides of the prospective employer independently. We do NOT endorse any requests for money payments and strictly advice against sharing personal or bank related information. We also recommend you visit Security Advice for more information. If you suspect any fraud or malpractice, email us at #J-18808-Ljbffr

Posted: 4th July 2025 6.50 am

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