Senior Counsel - Dubai or Riyadh

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy operations risk management and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business improve their operations and risk profile and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan NYSE: MMC. For more information visit (link removed)

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Oliver Wyman is now looking for a Senior Counsel for the IMEA region. This role can be based out of our Dubai or Riyadh office.



Reading/speaking in Arabic is essential for the role and writing is highly desirable




The Opportunity


The Senior Counsel Oliver Wyman Group (OWG) is responsible for providing general advice and support on a wide range of legal issues to the OWG businesses in the India Middle East Africa Region. Responsibilities include drafting reviewing and negotiating a high volume of client and thirdparty agreements including client services agreements master services agreements statements of work confidentiality agreements release letters software development and licensing agreements vendor agreements data processing addenda collaboration agreements and other legal documents. The candidate will be expected to be solution orientated and able to provide practical advice to both manage risk and support growth. The ability to prioritize work and to work efficiently and independently is a must. This role will report to the Assistant General Counsel and will be based in Dubai or Riyadh.



Key responsibilities of the role include:



Provide corporate advice and support on a wide range of legal issues and projects to the OWG businesses in the India Middle East Africa region.

Negotiate and draft various types of legal documents including contracts memos subcontracts vendor agreements and other legal documents.

Analyze new and changing laws and regulations.

Identify liability exposure and provide creative solutions to manage and reduce risk.

Interact with outside counsel for the Company as well as outside counsel for adverse parties.

Conduct negotiations with external third parties elevating unresolved legal issues to other members of the legal department as appropriate.

Provide business colleagues with practical advice and guidance and develop solutions to issues while managing business and legal considerations.

Interpret and explain contract terms and legal issues to internal business colleagues.

Assist with responding to RFP proposals to prospective clients.

Manage workflow effectively in a proactive and responsive fashion


Who we think will be perfect for this role



Experience Required:



Requires 3 years of legal experience obtained at a law firm or corporate legal department.

Experience with review and independent negotiation of contracts. Good understanding of contractual risk.

Experience with software licensing agreements and data privacy terms is strongly preferred


Technical Skills:



Requires qualification and license to practice law ideally in a common law jurisdiction.

Bachelors or University degree required.

Law degree required.


Skills and Attributes:



Exercises good judgment possesses financial acumen demonstrates strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively.

Excellent organization and communication skills.

Keen attention to detail and excellent analytical ability.

Exercises sound judgement and discretion with highly confidential information.

Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities.

General fluency with business issues and the ability to formulate legal solutions based on both our clients and Oliver Wymans business priorities.

Reading/speaking in Arabic is essential and writing is highly desirable


Why join us at Oliver Wyman


At Oliver Wyman
we lead with heart
we love what we do and have fun while we do it! We also
strive for breakthroughs
by questioning seeking diverse perspectives and finding powerful and sustainable solutions
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If you share these values and want to
work as one and own our impact at the same time be brave
and achieve the amazing with us!


Were individuals who are selfstarting motivated energetic entrepreneurial about what we do


We have the common aspiration to have an impact leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steadystate business. We want to build grow and shape the environment around us


We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion


We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity


We value people whose lives balance work and nonwork activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm.


We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a projectbased business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each others time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not inputbased culture have respect for peoples personal decisions and believe that ones workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.

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