Head of Legal

Education: LLB, preferably with a LLM/Master's degree in management.

Experience: At least 12 to 15 years of progressive experience as Legal Advisor, in a public listed company/industry or a large organization with thorough understanding of SECP and SBP regulations.

Reporting To: Chief Operating Officer

Key Responsibilities:

• Execution of key legal processes that relate to legal drafting, negotiations, and commercial settlement of agreements, while managing team of junior lawyers.
• Act as a mentor to legal department personnel, encouraging their professional growth, and grooming them for the occupation of his position in future.
• Manage legal risk within the business by taking responsibility for providing legal advice to the senior leadership on all legal matters affecting their individual departmental transactions.
• Review all Financing Agreements, relevant undertakings, and alignment company's legal and compliance framework, and vetting the mortgage documents.
• Provide senior leadership across the business with strategic and operational guidance, aiding them in the management of litigation issues such as contract disputes and product liability.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams towards a unified direction along with the other senior leadership and relevant stakeholders.
• Excellent negotiation skills to negotiate any transactional documents such as mergers and acquisitions, contract acquisitions, service level agreements etc.
• Ability to draft and manage complex patent, trademark, and regulatory documentation, handling such matter with ease in a fast-paced business environment.
• Instruct and assist external legal partners where necessary identifying potential legal risks and assessing the issues impacting legal risk, which ensures that all of the business's risk management approaches are viable.
• Work with departmental leadership across the company in identifying and managing potential legal risk, such as HR in review of existing employment agreements, contracts, and documentation and suggest/implement improvements.
• Review various notices received from Labor Departments, Municipal and other regulators Departments and prepare replies thereof.
• Advise Overdue Litigation Team on potential risks/legal insights as and when required.

• Seniority levelExecutive

• Employment typeFull-time

• Job functionLegal
• IndustriesBusiness Consulting and Services

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