Company Overview:

Sheba Group is a leading business conglomerate in Bangladesh, operating across IT services, telecommunications, and digital solutions. With a strong legacy of innovation and service excellence, the group delivers diversified solutions through its various strategic business units.

Position Overview:

The Head of Legal is responsible for leading the company’s legal strategy, ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, managing legal risks, and providing expert legal advice and legal insights to support business decisions. The role oversees contract management, litigation matters, regulatory affairs, and policy development, ensuring the company operates within a strong legal and ethical framework.

Key Responsibilities:

A. Legal Advisory & Governance

Provide strategic legal advice to the Board and Executive Management to support informed decision-making by analyzing legal implications of business actions.
Ensure all group companies operate within applicable legal and regulatory frameworks to prevent legal exposure by continuously reviewing laws and business practices.
Develop and maintain corporate governance policies to ensure accountability and transparency by implementing structured governance frameworks.

B. Contract Management

Draft, review, and vet various legal documents including contracts, MoUs, agreements, deeds, NDAs, NOC, vendor contracts, and lease agreements to protect the company’s legal and commercial interests by ensuring all terms are compliant, clear, and enforceable.
Provide legal support and deal with international clients in negotiating-drafting-reviewing-finalizing contracts/agreement for cross-border business operations, service delivery, and investment transactions (FDI, acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures).
Provide legal review and risk analysis, transaction structuring, legal due diligence, drafting and negotiation of transaction agreements, signing and closing responsibilities and integration efforts.
Develop standardized templates to maintain consistency and reduce legal risks by creating unified formats for all group companies to use.

C. Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Oversee all litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution matters to safeguard the organization from legal liabilities by coordinating case strategies and ensuring timely legal actions.
Manage external law firms and monitor legal expenses to ensure cost-efficient legal representation by reviewing invoices, assessing performance, and controlling legal budgets.
Represent Sheba Group in legal forums when required to protect the company’s position by presenting facts and coordinating with legal representatives.
Ensure liaison and coordination with external panel lawyers for case follow-ups and hearing updates.
Attend court with legal professionals to support proper case submission by providing accurate documents and ensuring timely filings.
Review, draft, and submit case-related pleadings, affidavits, and legal notices.
Ensure maintenance of a complete record of all pending and disposed cases and prepare periodic litigation reports.

D. Regulatory & Corporate Affairs

Monitor changes in laws and regulations to keep stakeholders updated and compliant by conducting regular legal reviews and issuing advisory notes.
Oversee statutory filings, licensing, and corporate documentation to meet mandatory regulatory requirements by ensuring timely preparation and submission of documents.
Maintain liaison with relevant government offices, courts, and regulatory authorities as required.
Ensure submission of periodic legal status reports to management.
Maintain proper filing and documentation of all legal papers, notices, and correspondence.

E. Risk Management

Identify potential legal risks by assessing contracts, business operations, and strategic decisions to prevent disputes and liabilities.
Recommend and implement effective risk mitigation strategies through the development of preventive legal controls, policies, and compliance frameworks.
Provide legal advisory support on tax and VAT-related matters to ensure financial and regulatory compliance, in coordination with tax consultants and relevant authorities.
Support international business operations by advising on, negotiating, drafting, reviewing, and finalizing contracts related to cross-border transactions, including FDI, mergers & acquisitions, and joint ventures.
Conduct legal reviews, risk assessments, and due diligence for business transactions; manage transaction structuring, agreement negotiation, closing, and post-transaction integration.

F. Leadership & Team Management

Work closely with other departments (Operations, Sales, HR, Accounts, Admin etc.) to ensure legal compliance in operational activities.
Lead the Group Legal Team to enhance departmental performance by providing direction, guidance, and structured workflows.
Promote a culture of legal awareness and ethical practices to uphold organizational integrity by encouraging compliance-driven behaviors across departments.

Requirements:

Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from a recognized university; LLM is preferred.
Minimum 7–10 years of professional legal experience with at least 5 years in a managerial or leadership role.
Experienced in negotiating, reviewing and drafting contract with international clients on investment transactions (FDI, M&A, and joint ventures).
Strong drafting, vetting, and legal research skills.
Practical knowledge of court procedures and case management.
Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Google Sheets.
Must have good presentation and public speaking skills.
Strong proficiency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working in Group of companies or corporate, IT/Software/Telecommunication, or multinational environments.

Reporting Supervisor: GMD

Immediate Subordinate Staff: 1 to 2

Department/ Section: Legal

Behavior Competencies:

Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
Should have a positive and can-do attitude.
Strong leadership and team management.
Strong decision-making and problem-solving ability.
Strategic thinking
Legal risk assessment
Professional ethics and judgment
Good planning, organization, and time management.

Employment Benefits & Other Details:

Job Location: Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
Mobile Bill, Tour Allowance, Weekly 02 Day Holidays.
Salary Review: Yearly.
Festival Bonus: 02 (Yearly).
Office Time: 9 am – 6.30 pm.
Salary range: Negotiable (based on experience and interview performance).