Head of Corporate & Governance

Mal is a group being built properly as it grows: an ADGM holding structure, a wholly owned technology company, an ADGM applicant for a financial services permission, an Abu Dhabi bank at preliminary approval stage, and entities in the UK and US. Each of them needs a governance framework that will stand up to a regulator, a shareholder and an auditor.

Key Responsibilities:

• Board and committee constitution, charters and terms of reference, calendars, papers, minutes and the resolution record, across several entities and jurisdictions
• The authority model: delegation of authority matrices reconciled against the powers of attorney that make them effective outwardly, kept current as entities and licences are added
• Entity management and the statutory books, including appointment and supervision of the corporate service provider
• Corporate housekeeping - keeping registers, articles, constitutional documents and filings consistent with one another
• The shareholder machinery under the shareholders agreement: reserved matters, consents, notices and adherence, and getting matters approved by the right organ in the right order
• Directors and officers cover and deeds of indemnity
• Corporate filings across the group's registries

Must-Have Qualifications:

• A legal qualification, with corporate governance or company secretarial practice at a regulated financial institution or a listed group
• Real board and shareholder mechanics, not minute taking
• Multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction entity management
• Comfort with a shareholders agreement and articles as working documents
• The judgement to tell an executive that something has to be done in a particular sequence, and the patience to make that sequence happen- Excellent drafting

Nice to Have:

• UAE and free zone experience
• UK or EU governance standards