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Head of Legal

  • Location:

    Dubai

  • Sector:

    In-house Legal

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Contact:

    Jackson Baker

  • Contact email:

    jackson@rutherfordsearch.com

  • Contact phone:

    020 3778 0771

  • Published:

    about 1 month ago

  • Expiry date:

    2024-11-08

​Our Client

Rutherford is partnered with a global private credit firm that are looking for a Head of Legal & Compliance, in Dubai. The Lawyer will play a key part of the firm's expansion in the Middle East and work closely with the business development team. The role will report into a Global General Counsel in London.

Main Duties

Key responsibilities for this position will include, but are not limited to:

  • Providing strategic business advice to senior management across legal, regulatory and other matters.

  • Lead structuring, negotiating and executing all transactions in the area.

  • Manage all stakeholders including counsel, regulators and suppliers

  • Lead all compliance and regulatory related matters

Your Profile

  • 10+ PQE transactional lawyer, ideally from a private credit or private equity firm

  • Strong transactional/corporate legal background

  • Open to relocating lawyers

For more information about this position, please get in touch with Jackson Baker.
Email: jackson@rutherfordsearch.com
Phone: 020 3778 0771

About Rutherford
Rutherford is a boutique search firm located in London. Our consultants are executive specialists in compliance recruitment, and also in in-house legal and private practice legal, all within the financial and legal services sectors in the United Kingdom and New York. We use our carefully curated relationships, networks and market knowledge to find the best fit for the clients in hand. We work with a wide range of clients, spanning from advisors, management consultants, corporate and commercial banks, brokers, exchanges MTFs and financial tech, through to global investment managers, hedge funds, private equity firms and investment banks. We began as a compliance recruitment firm in London and expanded our offering to now provide new resourcing expertise across legal recruitment, both in-house and private practice. We have been a leading legal and compliance search agency in London for over a decade.