Legal Affairs Senior Specialist

As a Legal Affairs Senior Specialist, you will play a key role in supporting legal professionals—including lawyers, paralegals, and corporate legal teams—by contributing to case preparation, legal strategy development, and ensuring access to accurate and up-to-date legal information. Your responsibilities will include conducting legal reviews, drafting and analyzing contracts, and providing legal opinions and services related to ARDCO’s various agreements and business operation.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in legal opinions on all matters affecting ARDCO across all its departments and businesses, as required, in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
• Assist in draft and review various agreements and provide counsel and support, in coordination with the various Division Heads and Department Managers of ARDCO.
• Promote the maximum use of the Legal Affairs division for all legal work to minimize ARDCO’s use of external counsel, and manage relationships with external counsel.
• Assist in managing special contracts and agreements for ARDCO (i.e., major purchasing agreements, and major sales agreements).
• Review joint venture/strategic partnership agreements.
• Prepare and maintain records required by law and assist ARDCO in ensuring that the company conducts its business in a legal and proper manner.
• Ensure that the legal documents and other contractual documents are effectively drafted, reviewed, interpreted, and vetted.
• Ensure all activities accepted by ARDCO comply with the relevant Acts, legal demands and ethical standards.
• Provide counsel to management and staff on existing Saudi laws.
• Receive and answer legal consultations from all ARDCO’s departments.
• Assist in advising on minimal liability and legal exposure for the business.
• Represent ARDCO in various court proceedings, involving cases filed against defaulting customers and labour disputes, when required.
• Provide counsel and legal service on contracts related to any new investments, products, etc…
• Review and approve agreements and contracts concerning vendors, service providers and contractors.

Education & Experience

• LLB (Bachelor’s in Law) required; LLM (Master’s in Law) preferred.
• Experience in corporate, finance, regulatory, and real estate law.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in legal research and analysis
• MOJ Certificate
• Experience working with publicly listed companies.
• Proficiency in corporate governance, compliance, and regulatory affairs.

Working at Riyadh Development Company

Riyadh Development Company is committed to driving economic diversification and urban transformation in alignment with the Kingdom’s strategic vision. Our people are central to our success, empowered by a leadership team that fosters transparency, trust, and accountability. We offer a dynamic environment where professionals contribute to pioneering projects that shape the future of real estate and infrastructure. Our focus is on enabling our people to thrive in an environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and meaningful contributions to projects that shape the Kingdom’s future.