Junior Legal Counsel, Middle East

Job Description

The Junior Legal Counsel will be part of the Middle East Legal team and will be tasked with providing a broad range of in-house legal services across countries in the Middle East region with focus on transactional work supporting the various Oracle lines of business in closing transactions for IT products and services. The position is located in Dubai and is reporting to the Middle East Legal Director. The Middle East Legal function is part of the EMEA Legal group.

The Junior Legal Counsel will be responsible for the following main tasks and activities:

• Supporting the legal team (Legal Director, Senior Legal Counsel and Legal Counsel) and/or the various lines of business on legal and contractual matters, including the structuring of contracts and appropriate documents to be used
• Working closely with Oracle’s Deal Management group, including in connection with internal approvals and consequent drafting, to ensure a smooth and efficient support to the lines of business and compliance with Oracle policies and procedures
• Review and draft non-complex and standard changes required by Deal Management Team and localizing Oracle model standard agreements and clauses
• Responding to various ad-hoc queries
• Identifying, analysing and assessing legal/contractual risk in connection with business transactions, including in connection with internal approvals to assist approvers in making decisions on an informed basis
• Assist in ensuring business transactions are in compliance with Oracle business practices, policies and procedures as well as local laws
• Assisting the C&E (Compliance & Ethics) group in connection with compliance cases
• Performing various other tasks as are relevant for an in-house lawyer
  
  
  

Required key skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain legal matters to non-lawyers
• Good negotiation skills/experience
• Well-organized, structured and proactive way of working, including adherence to deadlines
• Sound judgment
• Creative thinking and problem solving orientation
• Business orientation; ability to balance legal considerations with commercial considerations
• Ability to work independently but also as part of teams
• Ability to perform under pressure in an often fast-paced environment
• Ability to work in an environment with multiple stakeholders and within a framework governed by corporate policies and business practices
• Interested in developing an understanding of Oracle���s products and services as well as Oracle‘s business requirements and policies
  
  
  

Minimum job requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic, oral and written
• Excellent drafting skills in English and Arabic
• Law degree; 2 - 3 years of relevant work experience (In-house legal function experience will be a plus)
• IT contracts experience (Cloud and/or data privacy experience will be a plus)
• GCC litigation experience will be a plus
• Driver���s license
• Basic computer skills (including experience with Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Willingness to travel if required (not often)
  
  
  

Career Level - IC2

Responsibilities

Responsible for providing legal advice to the organization. Close liaison to business in providing a variety of corporate and commercial legal services. May perform litigation on Oracle's behalf or coordinates litigation and other legal, administrative or investigative actions handled by outside counsel. May draft, review, and negotiate major and/or non-standard technology contracts with public and private sector customers, including licensing agreements, professional services agreements, and cloud services agreements. May advise on legal issues involving government and regulatory compliance. Responds to ad hoc queries to include identification, analysis, and evaluation of risks in order to provide appropriate legal solutions. Works closely with other lawyers throughout Oracle and coordinates legal matters handled by outside lawyers. Demonstrates intermediate level general commercial or functional knowledge across a sub discipline within the individual's specialty area(s), (e.g., general corporate law, antitrust/competition law, securities compliance and regulatory, employment law, immigration law, cloud transactions, data privacy, risk management asset-backed financing, contract management, intellectual property, trade secrets, advertising law, registration and other resolutions specific to the computer and technology industry)

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