Legal Counsel

Job Purpose:

Legal Council provides support to GC in all matters that form GC's scope of work. They assist in drafting non-standard contracts of any level of complexity; handle negotiations with the clients; coordinate work of external debt collecting agencies, consultants, law firms; responsible for digitalization in the department and change management.

Key Responsibilities:

Contract Management:

• Review legal provisions of standard contracts when forwarded by other team members
• Review and draft non-standard contracts, including developing new complex agreements from scratch
• Solve queries from internal and external stakeholders on matters relating to contractual compliance, regulations, compliance etc.
• Maintain and update a data base of contract templates and clauses

Digitalization and change management:

• State up-to-date with the market development in terms of legal and compliance software; AI
• Propose and lead digitalization efforts, working closely with IT Department

Regulatory Compliance and Corporate Governance:

• Assist with regulatory compliance and corporate governance matters
• Conduct due diligence on customers, suppliers and business partners and maintain DD documents archives
• Update and develop new compliance trainings; conduct ad hoc compliance session as a proactive or reactive (post-incident) measure
• Develop and implement compliance reporting system across all departments

Legal Disputes and Cases:

• Handle debt collecting agencies and maintain a tracker of recovered funds, working closely with Credit Control Department Provide
• Provide regular reports to GC on the debt collection efforts
• Liaise with IR (International Registry) to explore the option of aircraft lien registration before any FOS agreement is executed
• Suggest other credit control measures proactively (corporate parent guarantees; bank guarantees; liens over other assents; etc.)
• Prepare cases for litigations / arbitrations (draft and furnish Letters Before Actions; draft Settlement Agreements; work with external law firms to deliver evidence and information gathered internally and ensure the case is well prepared for the court)
• Maintain a tracker of litigation/arbitration cases and a tracker of legal costs; report to GC regularly on both

Other duties:

• Stay up-to-date with changes in laws and regulations that may impact the organization
• Proactively do the gap analysis across organization and suggest improvement aimed to efficient contract management and robust compliance
• Adhere to the documented procedures of the organization or department and retain documented evidence related to the performance of their role.
• The employee is expected to exercise their duty of care, and must be aware of their health and safety responsibilities, accountability and authority; and shall comply with the policies and procedures outlined by the organization.

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