Legal Corporate Affairs Consultant

• Support the Legal function in corporate secretarial, entity management, statutory compliance, and legal matters across the Group’s GCC, Middle East, Africa, and offshore entities.
• Coordinate corporate filings, licensing, regulatory requirements, and entity compliance with internal teams, authorities, registered agents, and external counsel.
• Support entity consolidation and rationalization initiatives, including liquidation and strike-off of redundant entities.
• Draft, coordinate, circulate and maintain Board resolutions, written resolutions, meeting minutes and related corporate approvals.
• Draft and coordinate shareholder resolutions, general assembly resolutions and minutes.
• Assess corporate approval levels and confirm approval requirements, voting thresholds, quorum, execution formalities and filing requirements.
• Coordinate signatures, notarization, legalization, attestation and regulatory filings.
• Maintain registers of Board and shareholder resolutions and minutes.
• Prepare and format corporate documents in Arabic and English and coordinate certified legal translations.
• Manage annual legal entity compliance calendars, shareholder meetings, annual audited financial statement approvals, auditor appointments and recurring corporate filings.
• Prepare resolutions for dividends, profit distributions and statutory or legal reserves.
• Coordinate appointments, resignations, removals and replacements of directors, managers and officers.
• Manage authorized signatories, signing authorities and powers of representation.
• Prepare banking resolutions, powers of attorney, delegations and corporate authorizations.
• Coordinate corporate documents required by banks for KYC, account maintenance and changes in corporate authorities.
• Manage corporate changes involving directors, registered offices, addresses, company names, licensed activities, constitutional documents, ownership, shareholding and capital.
• Coordinate establishment of subsidiaries, branches and other legal entities.
• Support mergers, restructurings, liquidations, deregistrations and entity closures.
• Coordinate license renewals, amendments and entity-level registrations.
• Support entity consolidation, including business, asset, contract and employee transfers and related intra-group documentation.
• Coordinate solvent voluntary liquidations, strike-offs and deregistrations end-to-end and maintain closure trackers.
• Maintain statutory registers, corporate records, constitutional documents, licenses, certificates, approvals and filings in an audit-ready repository.
• Prepare economic substance notifications and returns and beneficial ownership filings, including UBO registers and BVI filings.
• Maintain jurisdictional corporate compliance matrices and monitor changes in corporate legislation and statutory requirements.
• Identify compliance gaps, overdue actions and legal or compliance risks and support remediation.
• Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Tax, Treasury, HR, Procurement, senior management, external counsel, service providers, auditors, banks, notaries and authorities.
• Provide corporate documentation for audits, tenders, banking KYC, regulatory reviews and transactions.
• Review, draft and negotiate NDAs, service and vendor agreements, intra-group agreements, MoUs, engagement letters and powers of attorney.
• Advise internal teams on contractual terms, risk allocation, approval requirements and execution formalities.
• Provide day-to-day legal guidance on corporate, commercial and compliance queries.
• Maintain contract templates, playbooks and clause libraries in Arabic and English.
• Coordinate contract execution formalities and maintain executed contracts in the contract repository.
• Support transactions, tenders and projects requiring contractual and corporate secretarial input.

• Relevant experience in corporate secretarial, entity management or in-house legal operations.
• Experience supporting a multi-entity and multi-jurisdictional corporate structure is strongly preferred.
• Good understanding of corporate law principles, Board and shareholder legal compliance, statutory filings and corporate authorities.
• Strong drafting skills, particularly for Board and shareholder resolutions, minutes, powers of attorney and corporate approvals.
• Solid experience in reviewing and drafting commercial contracts and providing practical legal advice to internal stakeholders, with sound commercial judgement and the ability to identify and escalate material legal risk.
• Strong organisational and project-management skills with the ability to manage multiple jurisdictions and statutory deadlines.
• High attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate, complete and audit-ready corporate records.
• Ability to work independently with local counsel and internal stakeholders and escalate legal issues appropriately.
• Proficiency in document and entity-management tools, MS Office (advanced Word), and the ability to maintain a structured corporate repository and compliance calendar; familiarity with e-signature and document-management platforms.
• Full professional proficiency in Arabic and English, including the ability to draft, review and format corporate documents and correspondence in both languages, and to handle Arabic-language notarization, attestation and authority filings.
• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Legal Studies, Corporate Legal compliance or a related field.