
REDA Mohamed Wafi
Senior Regional Legal & Compliance Lawyer at Johnson Controls Arabia
Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Senior Regional Legal & Compliance LawyerFull Time
Johnson Controls Arabia
Nov 2024 - Present -10 months
- Job Details:• Providing strategic legal advice and support to Business and Operational teams across MENA. • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts, including supply, distribution, services, maintenance, subcontracting, and public procurement agreements. • Supporting corporate governance matters, such as board meetings, shareholder resolutions, and joint ventures. • Assisting in the management of disputes and litigation in coordination with external law firms. • Advising on all aspects of labor and employment law across the region, with a focus on Saudi, Egyptian, and Lebanese labor regulations. • Supporting HR and business leaders in employee-related matters. • Monitoring legal developments in employment law and reviewing related policies, including working hours and overtime, resignation and termination, attendance policies, and custody acknowledgments. • Providing legal guidance on commercial instruments such as promissory notes and assignment letters.
Trilingual Team Leader Contracts Legal AdvisorFull Time
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024 -5 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:- Draft, review, and negotiate construction (FIDIC and Ad HOC) and services contracts, subcontracts, and agreements. - Participate in and negotiating Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB) meetings with clients in Ivory Coast. - Responsible for legal consulting, legal document preparation, legal compliance, and managing legal affairs related to contracts. - Handle daily tasks associated with contract management, negotiations, and ensuring legal compliance. - Collaborate with Procurement, Operations, and MEP Engineering teams to facilitate effective communication and negotiation during the contract finalization process. -Prepare monthly progress reports on subcontracts and purchase orders. - Keep up to date with external practice and developments in the law in order to maintain and share up-to-date knowledge and ensure continuous improvement. - Support the Contracts Engineering Team in identifying potential claims and analyzing their validity and impact. - Provide expertise in dispute avoidance and resolution techniques.
Senior Contracts Legal AdvisorFull Time
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024 -1 yr, 3 months
- Job Details:- Preparing, reviewing, and negotiating various agreements, contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders. - Participating in contract negotiations with top management and clients at MCA headquarters in Ivory Coast. - Providing legal guidance and advice. - Managing internal actions: preparing summaries for main contracts, establishing back-to-back conditions, maintaining risk registers, and assisting the Contracts Engineering Team with time bar issues. - Collaborating closely with Procurement, Operations, and MEP teams to ensure effective communication and negotiation. - Preparing monthly progress reports on subcontracts. -Reviewing and preparing pre-award project activities, including pre- qualifications and risk assessment.
Contracts Legal AdvisorFull Time
May 2021 - Mar 2023 -1 yr, 10 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:- Drafting and reviewing contracts, subcontracts, agreements, and purchase orders. - Providing legal guidance and collaborating closely with the Contracts Engineering Team. - Summarizing contractual and commercial matters. - Staying updated on relevant laws, decrees, and executive regulations.
Litigation & Corporate Lawyer, External AffairsFreelance / Project
Corporate Contract SpecialistFull Time
New City Housing and Development
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020 -9 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:- Drafting and reviewing various agreements (Service Agreements, Rental Agreements, Sale Agreements, Broker Agreements, Projects Agreements, Construction Agreement, Marketing Agreements, and Consulting Agreements ..ect.). - Responsible for contracts renewals. - Assisting in managing and resolving contractual business conflict between the company and the clients. - Assisting in preparing, discussing and negotiating all contractors claims with contractors till reaching a final settlement. - Keeping updates on any relevant laws and regulations. - Preparing and drafting minutes meeting for various committees related to regulations of the company. - Legal researches for various topics (Decennial Liability, COVID-19 as Force Major .. etc.).
Education
International Legal Commercial Transactions and Logistics in Legal Commercial
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AAST)Jan 2018 - Jan 2020 - 2 yr
Institute of International Business Law in Legal affairs
SorbonneJan 2011 - Jan 2015 - 4 yr
High School - Thanaweya Amma
Saint Vincent de paulJan 2011
Achievements
Contributing in the publication of research paper titled “Comparative Analysis of the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Laws and Executive Regulations Governing Administrative Contracts Concluded by Public Entities” find it here: https://lnkd.in/dYSrMz9c ( pages 20 to 25)
Skills
- Contract
- Legal
- Research
- Legal Affairs
- Drafting Contracts
- Construction
- Microsoft Word
- Internet
- Translation
- Real Estate
Languages
Arabic
FluentFrench
FluentEnglish
Fluent
Training & Certifications
Women Economic Empowerment Program – Entrepreneurship Support (WEE-ES)
AUC·2021International Human Rights at Fondation René Cassin
René Cassin·2016International Human Rights
Fondation René Cassin ·2016Finance
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Career advancer·2015Legal
Abdel raouf law firm·2013English
British Council·2013