Role overview
Our client, an international banking group with an established regional platform, is hiring a Legal Counsel in Dubai to support its corporate banking business. The role covers legal support for lending and credit products, transaction banking, and the day-to-day advisory needs of front-line coverage and product teams, with regulatory and documentation work running through everything. It suits a banking lawyer who wants breadth across products and genuine client-facing exposure inside a substantial institution.
Key responsibilities
- Advise on corporate lending and credit transactions, including bilateral and syndicated facilities, security packages, and intra-group arrangements
- Support transaction banking products, including trade finance, cash management, and related documentation
- Review and negotiate facility documentation, ISDA and market-standard documentation, and product terms
- Advise coverage and product teams on legal risk in client arrangements and new product initiatives
- Support regulatory engagement and the implementation of regulatory change affecting the business
- Instruct and manage external counsel on transactions and contentious matters
- Contribute to templates, precedents, and legal function processes across the regional platform
Candidate profile
- Around 4 to 8 years of post-qualification experience in banking and finance
- Common law qualified, with training at a respected international practice or experience within a bank legal team
- Strong grounding in lending and facility documentation; exposure to trade finance, transaction banking, or markets documentation an advantage
- Familiar with the regional regulatory environment, or able to build that familiarity quickly
- Clear, commercial, and comfortable advising business stakeholders directly
About Meyssa Legal
Meyssa Legal places lawyers across private practice and in-house roles in the UAE, with deep experience in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. We work consultatively with leading firms, in-house teams, and senior counsel across banking and finance, disputes, corporate, regulatory, and TMT.
Our approach prioritises judgment over targets and discretion over volume. We brief every role in confidence, submit only candidates we genuinely believe fit, and treat every conversation as the start of a long-term relationship.
