Senior Legal Counsel

1 week ago


Riyadh, Ar Riyāḑ, Saudi Arabia Lifera Full time
Senior Legal Counsel

Department: Legal

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Riyadh - Lifera

DescriptionA career at Lifera is more than a job - Lifera's mission is to enable the Saudi National Biotech Strategy, help achieve biopharma resilience in Saudi Arabia, and establish Lifera as a leading global biopharma company. A career at Lifera is an opportunity to change the future, contribute to enabling Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 and change lives.Lifera is building a sustainable network of high-tech, end-to-end manufacturing assets and at-scale multiomics capacity to enable therapeutic discovery. Lifera aims to enable Saudi biopharma resilience through local manufacturing across priority essential and life-saving medicines, enable scientific discovery through multiomics, and ultimately to increase access to medicines and health for all. Career training and upskilling are key to what we offer employees. Lifera plans to train a few hundred individuals in specialized biopharma and genomics areas through 2029.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in alignment with the HR policies and procedures deployed at Lifera. Requests for reasonable accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.Lifera offers employees a robust total rewards program which is thoughtfully designed to support our employees across multiple needs. We encourage you to apply and start a conversation with one of our recruiters.For more information, please visit

Main Purpose and Key ResponsibilitiesMain Purpose:
  • General corporate legal services
  • Commercial legal services
  • Draft and negotiate key transactional documents.
  • Conduct due diligence.
  • Ideally dispute resolution experience.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Corporate: transactional understanding. Assisting in negotiating, drafting and reviewing various corporate agreements, including M&A, joint venture agreements, licensing agreements, MOU, NDA etc. Be able to conduct due diligence and legal research.
  • Commercial: be able to draft, review and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including sales of goods, distribution agreements, services agreements. Be able to conduct legal research on commercial issues that apply to the industry and stay up to date with commercial and regulatory changes applicable to Saudi Arabia.
  • Day-to-day legal matters, regulatory compliance, employment, intellectual property etc.
  • Dispute resolution: litigation
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Educational qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in law, Master degree is preferred.

Experience:
3-5 years experience
In depth knowledge of corporate law, excellent drafting skills, legal research ability, knowledge of commercial contracts and general standard business acumen, ideally dispute resolution experience, fluent English and Arabic speaker.

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