Senior Legal Counsel - Disputes & Projects

Support all Dragon Oil Departments and in particular the Senior Management, Department Managers and other Dragon Oil personnel on all pre-dispute and dispute, projects and legal compliance matters impacting Dragon Oil’s corporate interests and assets across Turkmenistan, Egypt and Iraq, in coordination with the other Legal & Compliance team members.

Support all Dragon Oil Departments and in particular the Senior Management, Department Managers and other Dragon Oil personnel on all pre-dispute and dispute, projects and legal compliance matters impacting Dragon Oil’s corporate interests and assets across Turkmenistan, Egypt and Iraq, in coordination with the other Legal & Compliance team members.

• Advise on and opine on all forms of contentious matters affecting Dragon Oil entities.
• Independently manage a broad range of pre-dispute and dispute matters, including regulatory and administrative matters.
• Handle some more complex and higher exposure cases with the assistance of General Counsel.
• Where relevant, seek to place a binding settlement of contentious disputed matters with a view minimizing Dragon Oil’s liabilities and on terms acceptable to Dragon Oil Executive Management/Board.
• Where relevant, advising on any commencing claims against parties who breach contracts or default on their contractual obligations with Dragon Oil.
• Engage and manage external counsel, including developing and negotiating capped fees/estimate fees, jointly developing litigation/arbitration strategy, and ensuring budget discipline.
• Maintain and manage high quality record-keeping.
• Interface with Legal colleagues regarding litigation risks impacting businesses they support; collaborate cross-functionally and communicate to provide appropriate messaging concerning litigation/arbitration matters or disputes that pose potentially high reputational risks.
• Role model and enable culture of ethics, including intervening as warranted to ensure compliance with Dragon Oil Business Principles and Code of Conduct.
• Post-dispute, advice on lessons learnt and assist in implementing new policies and procedures for business teams intended to avoid similar outcomes in the future and to mitigate similar risks.
• Draft, negotiate and advise on Dragon Oil’s all major contracts, POs and project-related documentation (pre- and post-award contract management).
• Interface with Projects Departments to provide legal support and advice on the terms and conditions applicable to a wide range of oil and gas supply chain agreements for goods and services, project documentation (including EPIC, turnkey contracts).
• Negotiate contract terms with suppliers and counter parties.
• Support compliance, governance, M&A and corporate activities when required.

• Law Degree
• Minimum 10 years’ legal experience including at least 5 years in Arbitration and/or Litigation, contract management and strong experience of Upstream Oil and Gas Matters.

• Governance, Data Privacy, ESG experience, budgeting & external counsel cost control
• Crisis, Dispute & Claims Management
• Leadership, Mentoring & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Stakeholder Management & Government Relations
• M&A, Joint Ventures & Corporate Structuring
• Commercial Acumen & Strategic Insight
• Contracts Drafting, Negotiation & Risk Allocation
• Regulatory & Compliance Advisory (UAE & International)
• Oil & Gas Sector Legal Expertise

• Certificate:
  Qualified to practice law in the UK or Australia