Director/Regulatory Legal

Job Description

Projects: Leads negotiations and drafting of complex telecoms infrastructure sharing and interconnection agreements and reference offers such as for interconnection and infrastructure access and other strategic projects. Regularly interacts with legal counsels and senior legal counsels of counterparties, and internal subject matter experts including at director, VP level. Represents e& in discussions with the UAE telecoms regulator and where required, also other UAE regulatory bodies. Instructs / oversees support from junior members of the team and helps to develop more junior members of RLA. Advises on strategy and avoidance of legal & regulatory risks.

Advice: Provides complex and day-to-day advice in relation to telecoms regulations in the UAE in prompt and professional manner; where required, also advise on other laws and regulations in the UAE. Has ability to deal with or support on sophisticated competition law matters, both ex ante and ex post. Understanding of EU competition framework or similar is desirable. Has ability to deal with or support on sophisticated data protection matters. Understanding of EU data protection framework or similar is desirable. Advises in relation to dispute resolution of UAE telecoms regulatory disputes. Leads on formal complaints against the competition or other entities and defends the company`s interests against regulatory complaints lodged by the competitor, other entities or customers. Regularly interacts with legal counsels and senior legal counsels from Legal department, and internal subject matter experts including at director level. Drafts legal documents and submissions on telecoms regulatory matters. Coordination with external legal counsel and Corporate Legal team where required.

Contracts and T&Cs: Reviews commercial contracts and T&Cs for telecoms regulatory concerns and other key risk matters. Redrafts relevant parts of commercial contracts and T&Cs to align them with telecoms regulations and where required other laws and regulations and provides related advice. Negotiates contracts with partners and customers on expert level. Contributes with strategic input into overall structure of T&Cs for telecoms services and where required also other related services. Regularly interacts with legal counsels and senior legal counsels from Legal department, and internal subject matter experts including at director - VP level. Drafts new contractual templates on expert level.

Leads on formal complaints against the competition and other entities and defends the company`s interests against regulatory complaints lodged by the competitor, other entities and customers.

Consultations and policy documents: Leads on responses to complex regulatory consultations, advises on strategy of response in order to protect Etisalat`s legitimate interests. Presents to management on the impact and proposed strategy for response. Manages team of subject matter experts from internal departments to source comments and drafts the consultation response. Instructs / oversees support from junior members of the team.

Undertakes research on telecom regulatory subjects as international best practice.

Other support: Participates in cross-functional assignments. Presents on telecoms regulatory matters to RA and other departments. Provides other related professional support to VP/RLA, Regulatory Legal Affairs and Regulatory Affairs team (this may include for example preparation of presentations to management, reporting, review of documents, responses to requests).

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