Senior Lawyer

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This role is a pivotal position within our team and plays an instrumental role in guiding the organization through the complexities of the legal realm. Leveraging their expertise, this professional will ensure that the company complies with the relevant legislation and regulations, particularly in the Oil and Gas industry. She or he will advise on legal matters, manage legal cases, and also prepare and scrutinizes legal documents, ensuring minimum legal risk and will also acts as a point of contact for SOCAR HQ Legal Department

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Legal Advisory: Provide sophisticated, forward-thinking legal counsel on a diverse range of legal matters, ensuring that the organization's operations and strategies are founded on a solid legal footing.
• Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management: Proactively ascertain and minimize potential litigation risks by ensuring rigorous adherence to both domestic and international laws, in addition to stringent compliance with industry-specific regulations.
• Contract Management and Negotiation: Champion the process of contracting with vendors and providers. This includes the meticulous drafting, revising, and scrutinizing of contracts, offering sage advice during negotiations, and closely collaborating with SOCAR HQ Head of Legal to finalize contracting strategies.
• Document Vetting and Authorization: Ensure all legal documents and contracts undergo comprehensive review and validation, certifying their readiness and appropriateness before presentation to pertinent authorities.
• Legal Defense: Represent the National Oil Company (NOC) assertively in judicial proceedings concerning personnel matters such as promotion, recruitment, suspension, transfer, Legal Affairs Query (LAQ) cases, as well as criminal, excise, customs, and accident cases, among others.
• Legal Documentation: Draft, review, and finalize an assortment of legal documents, including but not limited to
• Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs), affidavits, and notices.
• Legal Liaison: Strategically select, appoint, and instruct legal advisors and advocates for relevant legal matters. Provide necessary insights and ensure expedited resolution of issues in a manner that safeguards the company's interests.
•  Legal Issue Management: Maintain, update, and oversee the legal issue log, diligently tracking and ensuring the resolution of all registered legal challenges.
• Judicial Development and Education: Act as an academic pillar within the organization, regularly updating the management team on novel judicial developments, rulings, and their potential implications for the company

Qualifications:

Education:

• Master’s or PhD degree in Law

Technical:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in legal (in a similar role)
• Excellent knowledge of national and transnational laws
• Excellent knowledge of relevant industry regulations and standards and environmental issues
• Ability to find pragmatic business solutions to legal issues
• Experience in working across partner organizations
• Extensive ability to read, analyze and interpret government regulations, trade journals and legal documents
• Demonstrated ability to respond to common inquiries from regulatory agencies, courts and outside consultants

Non technical:

• Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and multitask
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

 Interested candidates, please send your CV by 30 December 2023 in the subject line indicating the position. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview.  

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