Emirates Group

At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly Better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as an Assistant General Counsel and provide strategic legal guidance that supports the seamless operation of our global business. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your legal acumen will be instrumental in navigating complex challenges and shaping our continued success on a global stage. 

The selected candidate will provide legal advice and support to allocated internal client departments and associated companies in the Emirates Group (the 'Group') which the Group Legal Department advises on a wide variety of corporate and commercial legal matters. The Legal Adviser may be required to act as a deputy to his or her reporting VP-Legal during his or her absence and to the SVP-Legal during the absence of both the VP-Legal and the SVP-Legal.

In this role, you will:

• Act as a primary point of contact, or one of the primary points of contact, within Group Legal for the provision of legal advice and support, carriage of litigation and negotiation and finalisation of contracts, commercial agreements and corporate arrangements for specific departments, businesses and associated companies of the Group, as allocated. The job holder will be expected to become conversant with the personnel of, and the businesses conducted by, the internal departments and associated corporate entities to which he or she is allocated and will be required to provide legal advice and support that is relevant to the requirements of those businesses.
• Act as subject matter expert within Group Legal for specific areas of legal work or legal knowledge, as allocated, and provide support in relation to those specific areas of law across the Group as well as to other lawyers and legal executives within Group Legal.
• Advise on negotiating and drafting services contracts, supplier contracts, joint venture arrangements, company acquisitions and disposals, company secretarial matters, structured finance arrangements, events and promotion documentation, aircraft leases and aircraft purchase agreements, aircraft deliveries and redeliveries, intellectual property issues, bond issues, payment services documentation and insurance issues (to the extent these are not managed by Insurance Department), as allocated and as applicable to the departments and businesses allocated to the job holder.
• Manage litigation or any regulatory investigations or actions conducted by or against companies and employees within the Group, as required and as allocated.
• Monitor changes in domestic and international law (including aviation law) and advising on the legal aspects of operational issues. As relevant laws are constantly changing, and developing, the job holder will have to keep fully up to date by research and by monitoring legal publications.
• Complete administrative tasks associated with the areas of responsibility above as well as the general operation of Group Legal, as allocated, from time to time.
• Advise Group senior management on liability awareness, risk management procedures and legal requirements.
• Manage and co-ordinating external legal resources and advising on the procurement of legal advice at overseas stations, including negotiation and monitoring of budgets and estimates for specific legal tasks, subject to approval by VP-Legal and SVP-Legal.
• This position requires excellent organisational and negotiating skills and a flexible approach in order to balance conflicting business demands and to produce under pressure, high quality and practical, commercially orientated advice in response to tight deadlines. The job holder must be able to work productively as part of a team and to organise and lead both legal support teams (both internal and external) and commercial colleague teams in pursuit of the Group's commercial objectives. The job holder must be a good prioritiser. He or she must be goal orientated and adaptable to change. The job holder may also be required to monitor the work of any seconded lawyers working with him or her on projects and supervise the execution of legal work performed for him or her by legal executive resources in Group Legal. Overseas duty travel may be required from time to time.
• The job holder reports to the VP-Legal or SVP-Legal as allocated and formally receives instructions from him or her. The job holder will also receive instructions directly from Group internal clients (including associated companies in the Group), as well as senior managerial staff and management staff at overseas stations. The job holder must be able to operate confidently within only general guidelines and with broad objectives and instructions.

In order to be considered for this position, you must meet the below requirements:

• Experience in an area of law relevant to the position.

You'll have an edge if you have: 

• Excellent analytical ability and strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent drafting skills in English documentation.
• Service-oriented, commercially aware and capable of working on a diverse range of client matters whilst maintaining a continuing grasp of the Group's long term commercial goals and the importance of achieving the same.

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team.

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers.