General Counsel
- Muscat
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide expert and strategic legal advice to the management team.
- Serve as secretary to the Board.
- Ensure legal counsel remains relevant in line with Oman & International legislative changes.
- Deliver high quality counsel in complex, significant matters that cut across legal and commercially sensitive related areas.
- Represent the company on all legal matters with internal and external parties (e.g. external counsel, government etc.)
- Developing/updating/improving/advising on governance, company policies, systems, processes & procedures.
- Ensure legal risk management applied to all business and projects.
- Evaluation of legal impacts on business decisions or course of action.
- Identifying proactive solutions that will eliminate or mitigate business risk.
- Champion of and advocate for company's ethics and integrity standards.
- Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, amending, and advising on, managing all forms of contractual relationships, including (but not limited to) MOUs/LOIs, Shareholder Agreements, Development Agreements, Management Agreements, Sale & Purchase Agreements, and Consultancy Agreements.
- Managing of local retained external legal counsel/advisors including fee negotiation, assessment of their legal performance, and coordination of legal issues they are handling.
- Support, develop & appraise team performance (when applicable).
- Performing other related duties or assignments as directed by the CEO.
- Law Degree from an accredited law school.
- MBA and Accredited Legal Professional (ALP) certification preferable.
- A minimum of 17 years of relevant specialized experience.
- General exposure and experience in Oil and Gas industry is preferred.
- Prior People Management experience.
- High degree of professional ethics, integrity and gravitas.
- Excellent judgement and analytical skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience as an in-house lawyer and/or in a law firm.