SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, PROJECT FINANCE, UAE

SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, PROJECTS AND PROJECT FINANCE, UAE

If you’re a projects / project finance lawyer, and you’re looking for an in-house role, you should keep reading.

The work of this client is so critical, that if they didn’t do what they did, you’d be sitting in the dark and your bathroom wouldn’t work. It’s that important.

So why this role?

· Highest quality work – the chance to be part of multi-billion dollar projects.

· Strategic impact – exposure to the critical infrastructure assets that underpin a country.

· Team players – working with a very strong legal team that pull in the same direction together.

What you’ll be doing:

In general, you’ll be asset managing an extensive and existing portfolio of infrastructure projects, whilst ushering in the new. This will see you working closely with outside counsel, project developers, financiers and backers, government entities, plus all your internal clients.

Who you’ll likely need to be, in order to succeed:

Whilst there is a degree of flexibility, there are some core guidelines that make the backbone of the client expectations:

• You’ll need to have trained and qualified with an international standard law firm or multinational corporate.
• A PQE of 7+ would be ideal and likely no more than 12 PQE in order to fit into the team structure.
• Skill set is very important and ideal candidates will be able to offer a mix of projects, infrastructure and project finance work.
• Ideally you will be based in the Middle East right now, though strong overseas applicants can also be considered.

Please note that the job advertised here represents just a selection of all the in-house roles we have running across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region from our hub office in Dubai.

To have a full overview of all the international roles available right now, please visit our constantly updated website www.taylorroot.com

Job number 032025-283311

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