# Legal Counsel

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: Abu Dhabi
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Legal Counsel, you will be a key contributor to both the Legal team and the company as a whole. We're a team that values both creativity and teamwork - whether operating solo or collaboratively, we endeavour to achieve great results on challenging, time-sensitive projects.

You'll be given open-ended objectives and will find ways to turn them into outcomes. By focusing on the broad vision without losing sight of the details, you'll bring large and multi-phase projects to successful completion while prioritising team outcomes over individual wins.

Core Responsibilities:

- Lead negotiation and drafting on commercial and international government deals and transactions while supporting the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes

- Advise on complex legal and business matters to solve a multitude of challenges across the company, including in the compliance and regulatory space

- Partner closely with international sales teams on deal strategy and enterprise-level relationships in-region

- Assist in building infrastructure and processes to optimally deliver legal support in a scalable manner

- Collaborate with Business, Operations, Finance, and Engineering teams to drive deals to execution

What We Value:

- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

- Deep understanding of and interest in regional laws, regulations, and policy developments

- Organisation, resourcefulness, and strong attention to detail, with the ability to deliver information in a concise and understandable way

- Familiarity with technology and software licensing, particularly with customers based in the Middle East

- Demonstrated ability to develop creative solutions to novel issues

- Ability to multitask, problem-solve, and balance competing priorities in a rapidly changing environment

What We Require:

- Qualified lawyer in the US, UK, or other common law jurisdiction, fluent in written and spoken English, with at least 3-8 years of post-qualification experience at a top-firm and/or in-house, and a Bachelor of Law or equivalent law degree from a top-tier university/law school

## Skills

### Required
- commercial and international government deals and transactions
- standard form agreements and legal processes
- compliance and regulatory space
- deal strategy and enterprise-level relationships
- infrastructure and processes to deliver legal support

### Nice to have
- technology and software licensing
- regional laws, regulations, and policy developments
- organisation, resourcefulness, and strong attention to detail
- creative solutions to novel issues
- multitasking, problem-solving, and balancing competing priorities

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