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We are looking for a commercially minded Legal Counsel to join our legal team in Paris. Reporting to the General Counsel, you'll be a hands-on legal business partner to Sales and teams across the company, with a particular focus on Arabic-speaking markets. This is a broad in-house role for a lawyer who enjoys working close to the business and is motivated by the mission of delivering mission-critical systems to allied forces.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial & Procurement
- Draft, review and negotiate customer, partnership, supply and procurement agreements, including defence-procurement documentation among others.
- Support complex negotiations with defence ministries, armed forces, public-sector bodies and industrial partners.
- Build scalable contracting standards, playbooks and approval processes.
Defence, AI & Regulated Technology
- Advise on legal and regulatory issues around autonomous and AI-enabled defence systems.
- Work with the General Counsel on export-control, sanctions and trade-compliance matters.
- Advise on AI, data, cybersecurity and IP issues as they affect the business.
Corporate & Governance
- Support entity governance, board documentation and statutory filings across Arabic-speaking markets.
- Support employment matters alongside the People team and external counsel.
- Manage disputes and pre-litigation matters with a focus on early risk assessment.
Arabic-Speaking Markets
- Act as principal legal advisor for expansion across Arabic-speaking markets.
- Coordinate external local counsel and manage legal spend.
- Help build the legal processes and templates that let the business scale.
Requirements
- Qualified attorney or in-house legal counsel with approximately 5 years' relevant experience across a law firm and in-house/tech or defence environment.
- Native-level Arabic and fluent professional English.
- Strong track record drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts.
- Solid grounding in contract and corporate law.
- Genuine interest in defence, dual-use tech, AI or other regulated sectors.
- Comfortable with senior stakeholders and fast-moving, high-stakes work.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain any security clearance or authorization required for the role, subject to applicable law.
- LL.M. from a US or UK institution, or exposure to defence/public-procurement/export-control matters, is a plus.
