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Job Vacancy: Head of Legal— Galleria Tbilisi

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Work Schedule: Full-time — 5 working days per week, 40 hours

Job Purpose:

To lead and manage the legal function of Galleria Tbilisi, providing comprehensive hands-on and strategic legal support across the company`s operations, ensuring compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, mitigating legal risks, and safeguarding the company`s legal and commercial interests.

The role also includes comprehensive legal support to the company`s subsidiary, LLC Ria-Ria.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the company`s principal in-house legal counsel, providing legal advice to senior management, directors and shareholders on commercial, corporate, real estate, leasing, regulatory and other legal matters, and supporting strategic and operational decisions;
• Draft, review and negotiate lease, commercial, service, procurement, real estate, and other agreements, including addenda, annexes, acts and related legal documentation, and conduct complex commercial negotiations where required;
• Perform final legal review of key commercial agreements and maintain appropriate contractual standards, templates and approval principles in accordance with the company`s commercial interests and risk-management approach.
• Manage corporate governance matters, including preparation and legal formalization of board and shareholder decisions, corporate structural changes, legal registrations, and related corporate matters;
• Monitor legal and regulatory compliance, identify and assess legal and operational risks, prepare appropriate legal assessments and risk-mitigation measures, and provide legal support in regulatory inspections and compliance processes;
• Monitor changes in applicable legislation and regulatory requirements, assess their potential impact on the company`s operations and provide timely legal guidance and recommendations to management and relevant business functions;
• Manage litigation, arbitration, mediation, negotiations and other dispute resolution matters, including tenant, customer, contractor and regulatory disputes; develop legal strategy for complex or high-risk matters and coordinate external legal counsel where required;
• Manage all legal matters relating to leasing and tenant relationships, including preparation and negotiation of lease documentation, monitoring tenant compliance, assessment of lease breaches, enforcement of contractual obligations and legal support in lease-related disputes.
• Review customer complaints and consumer-related legal matters, prepare the company`s legal position and responses, and advise relevant business functions on compliance with applicable consumer-protection requirements;
• Manage intellectual property matters, including trademark registration and protection, copyright matters, licensing issues and other measures required to protect the company`s brands and intellectual property interests;
• Draft, review and update internal policies, procedures and other internal regulatory documents, ensuring their compliance with applicable legislation and alignment with the company`s business requirements;
• Represent the company in legal matters before government agencies and regulatory authorities, manage official legal communications, participate in meetings and inspections, and prepare and submit required legal documentation and responses;
• Provide legal support for marketing, advertising and promotional activities, including compliance with consumer-protection and advertising requirements, sale and discount campaigns, promotional terms, marketing agreements and collaborations with business partners;
• Manage the company`s day-to-day legal function and coordinate external law firms, legal consultants and other professional advisers where external support is required;
• Prepare legal opinions, assessments and recommendations on complex or non-standard business matters and provide legal input into strategic projects and transactions;
• Provide comprehensive legal support to the company`s subsidiary, LLC Ria-Ria, including commercial, service and procurement agreements, regulatory matters and communications, customer complaints and disputes, and the preparation and review of internal policies, procedures and other legal documentation.

Requirements:

• Law degree from an accredited institution; an LL.M. or equivalent postgraduate legal qualification will be considered an advantage;
• 7-8 years of relevant legal experience, preferably gained in an in-house corporate environment and with a strong background in commercial, real estate/leasing or retail-related legal matters;
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage a broad range of legal matters, prioritize competing legal workstreams and provide practical, business-oriented legal solutions with a high degree of autonomy;
• Strong knowledge of Georgian legislation;
• Strong experience in commercial and contract law, corporate law, real estate and leasing, regulatory and compliance matters, and dispute resolution;
• Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills;
• Excellent English proficiency.

Please, send your CV-s to sgogeshvili@galleria.ge