Senior Legal Advisor

Legal Affairs
CAIRO-CORNER STR ‎254 & ‎206(EGY)
Egypt
Job Description
* Litigation & Arbitration:
* Handle the pre-litigation and provide the most effective assistance in order to resolve possible disputes amicably,
* Represent the Companies knowledgably and securely in all legal matters,
* Handle all litigation matters and execute proper follow up with the external legal counsel,
* Ensure the resolution of disputes with proper and effective legal consultancy,
* Provide the most effective balance between outside legal counsel and in-house legal service provision.
* Keep the litigation files of the ongoing cases updated,
* Update the litigation and arbitration reports.
* Contracts:
* Draft, review and handle the contracts of the Affected Departments,
* Provide legal consultancy to the Affected Departments,
* Render full legal consultancy to all internal and external stakeholders for the Affected Departments,
* Provide legal advice on transactions including appropriate risk allocations,
* Archive the contracts related to the Affected Directions after its signature on a day to day basis.
* Training
* Provide legal training to the business unit in terms of the possible legal risks.
* Legal watch
* Generally, ensure a satisfactory level of information against the development of legislation in force, monitoring and evaluating changes in Egyptian law that may affect the Companies' business.
* Miscellaneous
* Handle all financial affairs of the department including invoices, payments and financial tracking,
* Handle all projects requested by the management (APPT, Intouch),
* Handle and reflect all litigation provisions in the financial books,
* Apply & implement the Anti-corruption, Antitrust Compliance and Integrity Policies and Program,
* Implement the required process of due diligences within my area of responsibilities,
* Apply the entire ethical approach and TOTAL code of conduct values,
* Comply with HSE policies & ‎12 golden rules,
* Confronted with few risks when carrying out one's activity,
* Has a basic knowledge of HSE issues even though it is not updated regularly.
Context and environment
* Multiplicity of Companies business which requires an adequate knowledge of each business area,
* Need of legal culture in the business,
* The management in the day to day work needs to have an immediate legal advice and the tough competitive market requires immediate response to the legal inquiries,
* Contrast between the laws and their application and interpretation by the administration and the courts,
* Lack of publication of the case-law of at least the Court of Cassation, the Courts of Appeal,
* Lack of training of legal actors (clerk, administrations, magistrates ...) to new reforms,
* Difficulty to predict with any degree of precision what interpretation to adopt laws,
* Strong presence of acts of corruption with the administrations, courts, experts,
* Slowness of the judicial process and the administration,
* Great difficulty in executing judicial decisions.
Candidate profile
* Perfectly (Arabic and English) Bachelor of law + minimum ‎5 to ‎7 years' experience in Business Law.
* Perfect knowledge of the laws
* Able to identify risky situations within the context of one's activity and warns the relevant services (HSEQ, Operations)
* Know and understand the business
* Business oriented and solution maker
* Rigorous, can anticipate, responsive, foresight and overview perspective.
* High analytical skills
* High negotiation skills and organized attitude.
* Leadership capabilities and problem solving.
* Confronted with few risks when carrying out one's activity.
* Has a basic knowledge of HSE issues even though it is not updated regularly
* Strong Personality with ability to persuasive skills for critical matters.
Offer ID
58273BR
Metier
General Business Law
Region, department, area
Egypt
Workplace location (Precisions/Keywords)
TotalEnergies
Employment type
Regular position
Experience level required
Minimum ‎6 years
Employer company
TotalEnergies Marketing Egypt
Branch
Marketing & Services
Interview location
Maadi - Degla
About us / company profile
Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with TotalEnergies.
With over ‎500-plus professions in ‎130 countries, we offer high safety and
environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and
wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is
already shared by ‎100,000 employees: to make energy better each and every day.
TotalEnergies Marketing Egypt is a subsidiary of the international broad
energy company TotalEnergies SA established in ‎1998. The company is active
across the entire oil & Gas sector, with general sales, lubricants, and
aviation activities as well as a retail network. The company currently employs
‎248 employees and continuously invests in recruitment, training and
professional development of its employees.
TotalEnergies Marketing Egypt's involvement in the country has been
growing constantly over the years. Whatever the circumstances the company has
never halted its operations which has allowed her to acquire new positions in
the market, with an estimated white products market share of ‎12%.
The company runs retail network of ‎240 service stations throughout the country
and has opened a massive state-of-the-art lubricant blending plant in Borg El
Arab. TotalEnergies Marketing Egypt's mission is to provide quality products
and services to its customers, retailing high quality fuels and lubricants as
well as services and various products at its Bonjour shops.