Experience

Union Properties PJSC
• United Arab Emirates
• Real Estate
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Chief Legal Officer

  • Feb 2022 - Present

Drake and Scull International PJSC
• Chief Legal Officer and Board Secretary

  • Apr 2019 - Feb 2022


Drake & Scull International PJSC

• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• General Counsel & Board secretary

  • Aug 2010 - Apr 2019

  1. Handling all in-house legal transactions with concentration on commercial and corporate matters. 2. Directly responsible for all legal matters affecting DSI in more than 15 countries. 3. Managing day-to-day corporate housekeeping, corporate expansion, and supervising outside counsels in all countries. 4. Reviewing defense prepared by outside counsels for all significant claims, disputes and litigation. 5. Setting up various kinds of companies in the GCC, Far East and Mena,and obtaining the necessary licenses and operating licenses in each of the said jurisdictions. 6. Acquiring many GCC companies and preparing all legal documents required to transfer the shares into DSI and or one of its subsidiaries. 7. Managing all aspects of legal and compliance functions supporting DSI(Reporting to the CEO). 8. Serving as corporate Secretary to Board of Directors, Audit Committee and remuneration committee of DSI. 9. Calling for the Board of Directors Meetings, providing the members with notice of meetings, attending the meetings, drafting the minutes of meetings and implementing the Board of Directors resolutions. 10. Acting as a secretary for the General Assembly Meetings for DSI and its subsidiary companies. 11. Liaising with the government departments and ensuring that the Board resolutions comply with the rules and regulations. Sending the Registrar copies of resolutions and agreements 12. Advise Board of Directors, handle corporate governance, and ensure compliance with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements. 13. Keeping minutes of directors' meetings and general meetings 14. Implementing operational cost-saving practice by streamlining the use of outside counsels by bringing the majority acquisition work in-house. 15. Providing legal support to management in all operational and administration areas. 16. Negotiating, drafting and reviewing various kinds of contracts related to the business. Show less



Future Pipe Industries

• United Arab Emirates
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corporate Legal Cousnel

  • Jun 2006 - Jun 2010

  1. Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts. 2. Serving the Group Companies in the most effective way by providing legal services in a responsive manner to support the Group’s business. 3. Conducting due diligence investigations for international investors, prepared reports and analysis, structured and negotiated subsequent acquisitions; chiefly focused on corporate law and real estates. 4. Preparing reports and analysis of specific legal issues for foreign investors, proposed solutions, mediated communication with governmental agencies. 5. Advising (drafting the SPAs and negotiations) on acquisitions of shares of the Multinational Companies. 6. Participating and, in the final stage, led to obtain a loan including reviewing of the transactional documentation and coordination with the external lawyers of the banks. 7. Setting up Companies in the Dubai International Financial Centre with a capital of (US$400 m). 8. Setting up companies in the GCC, China, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan. 9. Reviewing, analyzing, evaluating and drafting legal documents legal letters and agreement in connection of corporate and real estate matters. 10. Ensuring correct legal agreements & contracts translation from Arabic to English and vice versa. 11. Preparing the necessary documents and following up the registration of companies, drafting and amending various kinds of Contracts and Agreements, preparing Minutes of Meetings and attending the Board of Directors Meetings, and General Assembly Meetings for the Companies based in Dubai and GCC. 12. Preparing the necessary documents to register the Company’s trademarks worldwide and following up the registration of the same. 13. Following up claim collections to ensure that the Companies receivables are collected in full, following up cases in which any of the Group Companies is a party thereof and keep the Chief Legal Officer updated throughout. Show less


Clydeco
• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Legal Counsel

  • May 2005 - May 2006