Employment:
Full Time
Line of Service
Internal Firm Services
Specialism
IFS – Office of General Counsel (OGC)
Management Level
Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career in Office of General Counsel, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to be a part of the Firm’s legal department by providing dedicated legal support in the areas of litigation, counselling, and corporate, commercial, and employment law. You’ll play an important part in all aspects of regulatory proceedings involving the Firm and its personnel by supporting on regulatory issues, advising the Firm on matters relating to its operations, supporting the Firm’s client contracting function, and advising on matters related to employees.
As part of our team, you’ll help with researching background information related to legal issues and prepare legal documents. You’ll focus on drafting contracts or legal agreements, retaining files of prepared legal documents, and coordinating requests between internal and external counsel.
Company secretarial matters:
– Managing and monitoring corporate secretarial and compliance matters across the Middle East.
– This includes annual filings, boards and general assembly meetings, licenses and all other actions required to maintain the good standing of the member firms of PwC Middle East.
– Addressing all internal and external requests related to corporate secretarial matters.
– Handling correspondence, collating information, writing reports, and communicating decisions to relevant company stakeholders.
Corporate matters:
– Providing advice on corporate structuring and restructuring issues. This includes legal entity establishment across the Middle East, liquidations, changes of ownership, and all types of corporate amendments as required.
– Conducting legal research and providing the business with day-to-day legal advice and support on a wide range of corporate matters.
– Liaising with external counsel as needed to handle/manage corporate matters.
Transactional matters:
– Supporting transactions and ad-hoc projects across the Middle East.
– This includes acquisitions, joint ventures, and all other types of transactions as required, and involves drafting/review of legal documentation, carrying out due diligence, and liaising with external counsel (where applicable).
At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.
We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.
PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.
We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.
If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer.
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