Manaf Ibrahim Alsaloum

Legal Manager, Legal Adviser

D.O.B.: 01 March 1975

Nationality: Syrian

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Mobile: +971 050-***-****

Email: adgzpp@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Profile

A highly talented, qualified and professional Litigator, Arbitrator, Corporate Lawyer, Litigation barrister, Company secretary and in house counselor with 20 years of experience in handling legal cases regarding insurance claims, banking law and finance, commercial transactions, civil transactions, real estate transactions, labor and lease disputes, drafting bilingual agreements, contracts, legal documents, providing extensive business and legal advices, and training junior staff.

Client base includes, Major multinationals, Small to Medium size businesses, Bank and the Public Sector.

O B J E C T I V E

I aim to adopt, view and execute the firm’s vision of success as my own. I am making a difference by setting challenging goals and ensuring that those goals are achieved.

I am seeking a long-term opportunity within the business community, where my professional experience, education, and abilities would achieve the goals and growth of my employer.

E D U C A T I O N

Damascus College – Faculty of Law - Damascus -Syria

Bachelor in law graduate in 1998 qualified lawyer.

Al Saada High School – Damascus, Syria

Higher Secondary Education

L A N G U A G E S

Arabic– Native speaker

English– Excellent reading, writing, and speaking

COMPUTING SKILLS

Software: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, outlook, Lotus Notes, Internet, Windows.

S K I L L S & C O M P E T E N C I E S

Commercial, banking, insurance and finance law.

Acquisition, merging, bankruptcy law.

Real estate, industry sector, civil legal actions.

Criminal and prosecution law and procedures.

Import, export, trademarks, and arbitration.

Experienced arbitrator.

Labor and employment law.

Positive clients' service attitude

Self-organized and responsible

CAREER HISTORY

National Bank of Umm Al Qaiwain: 1st of April 2016 to present

Assistant Manager and Legal Adviser:

Role Details

Assisting the head of the legal department in handling all tasks of the legal department, and deputy the head of the department in case of his absence. Supervise legal officers, provide legal advice, and coordinate with external lawyers in handling legal action of the bank. Ensure the bank is complying with governance directions. Draft conventional and Islamic agreements and coordinate with the Sharia'a Board.

Key Achievements: further to my tasks as a Legal Adviser:

●Ensure the legal department is attending its tasks in a professional manner.

●Secure bank interests against any potential risk of any source.

●Achieve management's goals and instructions.

●Manage and direct the department's staff in all legal tasks.

●Provide legal advice and guidance to management and other departments.

●Instruct external lawyers and direct them in legal actions.

●Report to credit committee, and other committees.

●Guide trade finance, operation risk and operation department.

●Ensure the bank is complying with governance directions.

National Bank of Umm Al Qaiwain: 14th Oct 2012 to 31st Mar 2016

Senior Legal Advisor

Role Details

Provide all bank’s departments and branches including the Islamic unit with legal advice. Supervise legal officers in retail cases and attend commercial and big cases, instruct external lawyers, and review pleadings, answers, claims, contracts, agreements. Review Bank’s procedures, policies, manuals and modify them. Draft conventional and Islamic agreements in cooperation with the Sharia'a Board.

Key Achievements

●Provide legal advice, and attend inquiries of senior management, CEO, General Manager, Credit Risk Manager.

●Handle VIP customers, commercial accounts and facilities.

●Draft bilingual contracts and agreements.

●Draft and review pleadings regarding legal actions from and against the Bank.

●Follow and instruct external lawyers regarding legal actions.

●Review external lawyer’s claims, answers and pleadings before submitting them to the competent court.

●Review Bank’s manual and modify as per applicable laws.

●Draft and review Bank’s forms before uploading them in the manual.

●Review commercial documents, draft legal notices to customers.

●Attend complaints received from the Central Bank.

● File claims in police stations.

●Handle cases related to the Islamic Unit in the bank.

●Draft Islamic agreements (Mudarabah, Taeseer, Wakalah, Ijarah Mawasufah Fi Al-Dhimmah, and Ijarah Muntahiha Bil Tamlik).

National Bank of Abu Dhabi: 15th Feb 2009 to 11th Oct 2012

Legal officer

Role Details

Provide Bank’s Branches in North Emirates in Dubai, including Elite, Private and commercial units, with legal advice. Handle civil cases and draft contracts. File criminal cases against defaulter customers, follow up legal procedure and enforce defaulter customers for recovery, attaching defaulter debtor's assets and cars.

Key Achievements

●Represent the Bank before Courts, Public Prosecutions, Police stations, CID departments, and municipality committees, RTA and other public and private entities.

●Handle Elite and private branches to fulfill customer’s needs from the legal side.

●Draft and review contracts and agreements.

●File legal actions before municipality committees, and represent the Bank.

●Prepare claims in respect of corporate loans, personal loans, credit cards, car loans, and cars attachments to Bank Lawyers.

●File criminal cases against defaulter debtors.

●Provide Bank’s staff with legal written and verbal consultations via e-mail, telephone and Fax.

MOAFAQ Al GADDAH Trading Co. 2006 until 15th Feb 2009

Legal Manager

Role Details

Work as a legal consultant in a group of companies, draft and amend all kinds of contracts and agreements. handle legal issues concern the companies in all territories, as Middle East, Africa, China, and Asia, supplying, distributing, and filing legal actions against defaulters.

Key Achievements

●Manage legal cases and conflicts between group’s companies and others (customers and suppliers), registry affiliate companies, drafted company's MOA and set up them.

●Manage labor cases and labor conflicts.

●Customs problems, import, export.

●Trademarks and Intellectual Property registration, file objections, grievances before the Ministry of Economic. file criminal cases against counterfeiters.

●Draft wide range of bilingual agreements and contracts.

●Provide legal consultations in legal and commercial matters.

●negotiate with customers and suppliers on the terms and conditions of the contracts.

●Dealing with various government departments like police stations, economic ministry, trademarks department, courts, Notary public, customs, local and federal authorities.

MANAF Legal Firm Jan 1999 to January 2006

Advocate and Barrister

Role Details

For eight years of law practice, review legal cases, provide consultations, draft claims, pleadings and answers. Represent clients in criminal, civil, commercial and personal cases, as civil and commercial transactions, labor disputes, rent cases, divorce, alimony, custody. draft contracts, negotiating with parties and review cases as a barrister and as an Arbitrator in many other cases.

Key Achievements

●Joined the Bar of Association in 1999, and in 2001 finished two years of training and got the authorization to practice law as a barrister.

●Handle legal actions related to criminal, civil, commercial and personal.

●attend cases related to selling, buying bare land, constructed properties, easements and Usufruct rights, and civil claims for damages.

●Register new companies and draft companies' MOA and AOA.

●Represented clients in the real estate department and finance ministry, taxes department.

Courses and programs attended:

Harvard Law School:

Contract Law

Emirates Institution for Banking and Financial Studies:

1- Banking Practice and Law in the UAE.

2- Detection of Forgery and Counterfeiting.

3- Anti Money Laundering: Law, Regulations and Best Practices.

4- Islamic Banking Products.

I N T E R E S T S & A C T I V I T I E S

Reading legal textbooks and new legislation codes.

REFERENCES

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