Senior Manager - Legal - Dubai Holding Real Estate

About Dubai Holding Real Estate:

Dubai Holding's real estate business has developed strategic destinations and communities that offer unique and attractive lifestyle opportunities to meet the evolving needs of Dubai's residents and visitors alike. As a master developer, we invest in sustainable infrastructure, accessibility, community amenities and family-focused facilities including community centres, mosques, schools, supermarkets and landscaping.

Our integrated real estate offering also includes a robust land sales portfolio, project management for large-scale projects, as well as top-notch facilities management services.

About the Job:

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Manager - Legal to join Dubai Holding Real Estate. The job holder will be responsible for providing legal support to the business on all legal real estate matters.

The main duties and responsibilities of this role:

• Headline role: Providing support to various parts of the business on legal real estate matters.
• Reporting: Providing briefings and updates to Company HOL on current legal real estate matters affecting the business. Inputting into business reporting functions (including the ExCom and EMC, as applicable).
• Policies, procedures and processes: On-going development and streamlining of all real estate precedent documents, which include: Unit SPAs, Plot SPAs, Raw Land SPAs, Plot and Unit re-sale agreements, Plot and Unit Termination & Settlement Agreements, Amendment Agreements. On-going review of any policies in place to identify streamlining/ improvements to processes.
• Strategic: Providing strategic input and advice on legacy matters, including input into documents presented to DH senior management and attending calls with DH senior management to advise on legal queries relating to such matters.
• Pre-contractual: Key involvement in negotiation of legal documents for various real estate transactions (in particular, disposals of raw land plots), including meeting with and taking instructions from key personnel involved in the negotiation of the commercial deal whilst ensuring that the business is aware of legal risks arising out of such negotiations and that any key legal risk issues are either mitigated in the documents and/or flagged to the business as applicable.
• Contractual: Review/ drafting/ amendment of various agreements proposed to be entered into by the business, including NOCs, temporary license, Cost Share Agreements. Review of documents to be entered into with various Government authorities, including the RTA, DEWA, OM, DOA, Empower, Etisalat/DU. Reviewing letters to be issued by the business relating to off plan Unit sales, project registration, project cancellation.
• Internal Governance: Providing information to the various Governance and Audit functions within the business regarding on going and/or historic legal matters. Ensuring that the business is directed to liaise with Governance on relevant matters.
• Legal and regulatory updates: Reviewing and being alert to legal developments in the Dubai and UAE and providing updates to the business on such developments, including input as to any required amendments to standard practices/procedures. Registered developer - Company's core business is off-plan Unit sales throughout Dubai. DHRE Legal inputs on the entire off-plan sales process, including: review of proposed project name; review of Property Development Contracts with RERA; advice on project registration requirements; advice on project structuring matters (including strata structure advice and procuring relevant advice from external counsel and/or surveying practices, as applicable); issuing Unit Booking Form, SPA and Disclosure Statements for each Projects; liaising with Company's Finance and Customer Care about issues arising post SPA execution, including late payments, SPA termination requests, amicable settlement requests, re-sale requests, change in Customer details. Advising the business in respect of any post-handover matters, including handover notices, Unit defects, community issues.
• Master Developer function - various entities within the Company carry out a master developer function across projects and communities within Dubai. Legal advises on project structuring and preparation of governance documents (MCD, BMS, etc.).
• An on-going exercise is the revision of Governance Documents for all projects across the entire DHRE portfolio.
• Community Management - providing advice in respect of Community Management matters, including Owner disputes/complaints, community management and maintenance issues.
• Landbank - providing advice to the business on various landbank matters, including master planning matters, infrastructure, strategic planning and relations with government authorities.
• Broker/ Agency/ Sales - advising Sales on issues relating to the appointment, activities and termination of Broker agreements.

About you:

The ideal candidate for this position will have the following experience and qualifications:

• Qualified as a Solicitor in England & Wales and/or another relevant jurisdiction.
• Thorough knowledge of real estate laws and practices.
• 1 - 6 years of post-qualification experience.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, multicultural and multilingual team environment.
• Strong legal writing and drafting skills.
• Business Acumen
• Strategic thinking and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, multicultural team environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify potential legal risks and develop strategies to mitigate them.
• Ability to conduct due diligence on real estate transactions and assess legal implications.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

About the Benefits:

At Dubai Holding, we're committed to nurturing the success and well-being of our colleagues. Join our dynamic and diverse team, and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that includes competitive compensation, career development opportunities, and a collaborative work environment. We strongly believe in creating an empowered workforce that will help us build a connected city for tomorrow. We are committed to attracting the brightest minds and nurturing the most pioneering candidates who desire to make a great impact on the future of Dubai.