Job description

The Senior Legal Counsel role within UBS provides comprehensive legal support to the Global Wealth Management business across the Middle East region. The position operates within UBS Group Functions and is based in Dubai, working closely with legal colleagues across EMEA, Switzerland, and APAC. The role involves delivering strategic and practical legal advice on a wide range of banking and wealth management products and services, including regulatory, commercial, governance, compliance, corporate matters, and financing transactions. The role requires drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad spectrum of contracts and transaction documentation, supporting strategic initiatives and cross-border projects, ensuring compliance with regional legal and regulatory frameworks, managing relationships with external counsel, and continuously improving internal legal processes and templates in a fast-paced, dynamic international banking environment.