Corporate & Commercial Lawyer

About the role

EY Law is hiring a Corporate & Commercial Lawyer in Baghdad, Iraq. You will advise high-profile clients on commercial and corporate matters, including day-to-day advice, and work on projects spanning many countries and borders.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of technically complex and demanding law projects, ensuring technical and practical excellence to maximise client service quality.
• Build and maintain new and existing client relationships internally and externally.
• Manage leads and opportunities from other parts of the law practice and the wider EY network, and help them do the same.
• Contribute to the development of the law practice through internal training, precedent development, sharing of know-how, team and firm events, internal and external presentations and expert articles for publications.

Required profile

• At least 4 years of experience as a qualified lawyer from a reputable legal practice.
• Solid understanding of MENA legal systems and frameworks, and good technical knowledge of them.
• Experience in a specialty (such as corporate transactions) or a sector (e.g. energy or oil & gas) is ideal.
• Enthusiastic, flexible and positive approach to work in a fast-paced, rapidly developing environment.

Required skills

• Good technical knowledge of common corporate and commercial law topics.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, negotiation and strategic and commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, self-management and project management skills, including in Arabic.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, and to adapt quickly to developing laws and regulations.