Associate

6 months ago


Riyadh, Saudi Arabia DLA Piper Full time

Associate

**The role**

DLA Piper is a globally recognised provider of a full range of commercial, intellectual property (IP), privacy, sourcing, and technology law services for leading businesses worldwide.

Our team handles both contentious and non-contentious transactional and regulatory work across diverse sectors including, aviation, financial, government, life sciences, media, retail, technology, and telecoms sectors. As a full-service law firm, we collaborate with colleagues from our employment, corporate, tax, finance, real estate, and litigation groups across the Middle East region as well as our international offices, to provide clients with full service seamless legal coverage and advice.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Projects**: Advise clients on intricate, large-scale national and cross-border IT, telecommunications, outsourcing, and digital transformation projects. Provide guidance, including understanding client needs, drafting and negotiating documentation (including front-end terms and conditions, schedules, appendices, and statements of work), concluding transactions, and providing ongoing contract management support.

**Commercial Contracts**:Proficiently draft and negotiate a diverse range of commercial contracts, supporting clients with various contract types, including franchising, distribution, and agency arrangements, and collaboration agreements.

**Corporate Support**: Assist our corporate team in reviewing and analysing intellectual property, technology, digital economy regulatory, and commercial matters, and documentation related to corporate transactions. Draft and negotiate supporting commercial documentation such as transitional services agreements.

**Coordination**: Efficiently manage and oversee projects spanning the office and the global landscape, collaborating

seamlessly with other firm offices, third-party law firms, consultants, and clients.

**Matter Management**: Handle all aspects of matter management, from client onboarding through to billing and collections, ensuring a smooth matter management cycle.

**Marketing & Business Development**: Proactively promote the firm and the practice through appropriate marketing and business development activities. Contribute to community building, thought leadership, presentations at client seminars, and industry events to develop personal career, the practice, and the firm.

**Quality**: Proactively support the team's quality initiatives, including contributing to learning and development, training, precedent development, and guidance notes. Share knowledge and expertise with the team and wider group.

Optimise, Transform, Innovate: Engage in the team's and firm's initiatives to optimise, transform and innovate. Embrace and contribute to the digital evolution of legal services.

**Sector Contribution**: Align with and proactively support the development of at least two of the firm's sectors as relevant to the team.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

We pride ourselves on having a collegiate environment and we are looking for down-to-earth but confident lawyers with solid core-skills and experience.
- **Qualifications and Academic Record**:An exceptional academic record, including a 2:1 or higher in a qualifying law degree (or international equivalent).
- **Technical Skills and Experience**:Strong relevant technical skills and experience in the types of work described above, including demonstrable experience in drafting, negotiating and advising on a wide range of complex and high value commercial, IP and IT contracts / transactions. Experience across areas of practice in the TMT space is also desirable.
- **Client-Centric Approach**: Demonstrated commitment to delivering superior value to clients, with a strong client-centric focus. Ability to understand and align legal services with clients' broader business objectives, cultivating lasting client relationships.
- **Organizational Skills and Initiative**:Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within local and virtual teams. Capable of juggling numerous tasks at once, meeting demanding deadlines and taking initiative and ownership to achieve agreed objectives.
- **Communication Skills**: Outstanding verbal and written English communication skills. Proficiency in drafting high-quality legal documents, creating presentations, thought leadership content, marketing materials, and business development resources. Ability to convey information concisely and with meticulous attention to detail.
- P**assion and Work Ethic**: A genuine passion for our areas of practice, combined with a strong work ethic dedicated to serving clients and contributing to the firm's success.
- **Team Collaboration**: A growth mindset, a positive and collaborative approach when working within the team (both in KSA and regionally) and with clients (local and international), fostering cooperation and support.
- **Alignment with Firm Values



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