About the Role
The Legal Counsel – EPC & Project Development will provide comprehensive legal support to the EPC and project development businesses, focusing specifically on renewable energy, power, water, and infrastructure projects across Saudi Arabia and international markets. The role encompasses the full project lifecycle, beginning from tendering, bidding, and project development.
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Key Accountability Areas
1. Tendering, EPC Contracts and Construction Legal Support
- Lead legal support for EPC and development tenders, including RFPs, contract reviews, qualifications, deviations, clarifications, risk registers, and bid approvals.
- Draft, review, and negotiate EPC, EP, construction, turnkey, supply, and O&M contracts for power, water, renewable energy, transmission, distribution, and industrial projects using FIDIC and bespoke forms.
- Advise on risk allocation, guarantees, liquidated damages, liability, indemnities, warranties, insurance, suspension, and termination.
- Negotiate subcontracts, supply, consortium, JV, and teaming agreements, ensuring alignment with main contracts.
- Support contract administration, including notices, variations, EOT, delays, payments, commissioning, close-out, and remedies.
- Review bonds and parent company guarantees, including calls and defenses.
- Advise on contractual risk mitigation and commercial negotiations.
2. Project Development and Investment Transactions
- Support development and investment in renewable energy, power, water, and infrastructure from origination to financial close.
- Draft and negotiate joint development, JV, shareholders', consortium, cooperation, and MoU agreements.
- Advise on PPAs, water purchase, implementation, concession, land, lease, grid connection, and government support agreements.
- Support PPP, IPP, and IWP bids and align project agreements with EPC and O&M contracts.
- Assist with project structuring, acquisitions, divestments, due diligence, and corporate transactions.
- Identify legal risks and prepare investment committee inputs.
3. Project Finance and Financing Documentation
- Support project financing and negotiate financing and security documents with finance teams and external counsel.
- Review loan and direct agreements, equity contributions, sponsor support, guarantees, and security packages.
- Support lender due diligence and fulfillment of conditions precedent.
- Advise on bankability and alignment of project, EPC, and financing agreements.
4. Claims Management and Dispute Resolution
- Advise on construction claims, contractual disputes, arbitration, and litigation.
- Support notices and EOT, variation, delay, disruption, and other claims.
- Assess claims, counterclaims, and exposure; recommend commercial resolutions.
- Lead negotiations, settlements, and dispute avoidance.
- Coordinate external counsel, technical and quantum experts, and claims consultants.
- Enforce contractual rights and recover outstanding payments.
5. Corporate, Regulatory and Compliance
- Advise on Saudi and international laws covering procurement, local content, Saudization, contractor classification, licensing, and foreign investment.
- Support corporate structuring, JVs, project companies, and branches.
- Prepare corporate approvals, board resolutions, powers of attorney, and related documents.
- Support anti-bribery, sanctions, and export control compliance.
- Identify regulatory risks and advise on mitigation.
Competencies
- Commercial Acumen: Understands business objectives and provides solutions that enable transactions while protecting interests.
- Contractual Risk Management: Shows strong judgment in identifying and managing legal, financial, and contractual risks in complex EPC and development projects.
- Independent Decision-Making: Handles complex contractual matters with limited supervision and escalates material issues appropriately.
- Negotiation and Influencing: Negotiates effectively with clients, contractors, developers, and other stakeholders to achieve commercially acceptable outcomes.
- Problem-Solving: Takes a practical, solution-oriented approach to legal and commercial issues.
- Stakeholder Management: Builds productive relationships with project teams, business leaders, and external advisers.
- Accountability and Ownership: Takes responsibility for assigned matters and ensures timely and effective completion.
- Collaboration: Works effectively with cross-functional and international teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Explains complex legal issues clearly and concisely to legal and non-legal stakeholders.
- Professional Integrity: Demonstrates sound judgment, confidentiality, ethical conduct, and commitment to company policies and values.
Academic Qualification
- Bachelor Degree in Legal Assisting
Work Experience
Technical / Functional Competencies
- Legal Research
- Contract Law
