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Abdullah Alabd

Riyadh,Saudi Arabia

Summary

Legal professional with 12 years of experience across legal advisory, commercial contracts, HR, procurement, e-commerce, technology, real estate, financial services, and employment law. Experienced in advising multinational organizations on complex commercial transactions, contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and legal risk management. Currently serving as Country Senior Business Counsel at Globant Arabia, supporting strategic legal matters across Saudi Arabia and the MENA region. Skilled in drafting and negotiating complex agreements, dispute resolution, contract lifecycle management, and providing practical, business-oriented legal advice to senior stakeholders.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work history

Country Senior Business Counsel

Globant
Riyadh
2025.08 - Current

▪ Acting as the main local legal point of contact for Globant Arabia in Saudi Arabia. ▪ Reviewing, drafting and negotiating MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, amendments, addendums, partnership agreements, supplier agreements and tender/RFP documents. ▪ Supported commercial, legal, employment, compliance and corporate matters across KSA and MENA projects, ensuring alignment with local regulations. ▪ Advised business, delivery, finance, HR and procurement teams on legal and contractual risks, facilitating informed decision-making. ▪ Reviewing key contractual terms, including liability, indemnity, payment terms, termination, acceptance, confidentiality, IP, data protection and governing law. ▪ Supporting government and strategic client opportunities, including legal comments, qualifications, deviations and contract risk assessments. ▪ Managing internal legal approval processes, legal stamp requirements and coordination with regional/global legal teams. ▪ Supporting KSA labor and employment matters, including termination, settlements, disciplinary issues and employee-related legal advice. ▪ Prepared practical legal recommendations for internal stakeholders and senior management, enhancing strategic legal understanding.

Sr Legal Counsel

JLL
Riyadh
2025.03 - 2025.07

▪ Reviewed and supported contracts related to real estate, professional services, vendors and client engagements.
▪ Assisted in drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements, SOWs, amendments, addendums, NDAs and procurement-related documents.
▪ Reviewed key commercial and legal terms, including scope of services, fees, payment terms, liability, indemnity, termination and confidentiality.
▪ Coordinated with internal stakeholders to identify contractual risks and support business decisions.
▪ Supported contract governance, documentation, approvals and internal compliance processes.
▪ Worked closely with business, procurement, finance and legal teams to finalize contractual documents.
▪ Provided practical legal and contractual advice to support project delivery and reduce risk exposure

Sr Legal Counsel

Noon E-Commerce
Riyadh, KSA
2022.07 - 2025.10
  • Responsibilities: (Legal Counsel) setting up the legal department
  • Guiding/helping my team to represent Noon in the courts and government agencies.
  • Reviewed agreements across all departments of noon, commercial and noncommercial, leading the negotiation and completion of retail, and marketplace agreements.
  • Template revisions & re-drafting of platform policies for fashion, electronics & grocery categories.
  • Drafted, and prepared supply, manufacturing, manpower, joint promotion & service agreement, website platform policies, amendment, addendum agreements, MOUs, SOWs, and NDAs.
  • Assisted in drafting and preparation of corporate documents (MOAs, shareholders resolution, amendments to MOA).
  • Coordinated global IP registration. (Intellectual Property)
  • Managed correspondence with other departments and attended meetings to finalize agreements with external parties (partners or vendors).
  • Monitored & streamlined all online systems for legal agreement review, approval and submission.
  • Assisted in the onboarding of other department members new joiners, in the legal department.
  • Conducted legal research.

Contract Management

American Express
, Saudi Arabia
2021.05 - 2022.07
  • Responsibilities: (Contract Management)
  • Manage Vendors contract negotiations and regulate contracts between vendors and stakeholders.
  • Ensure that projects adhere to all policies and procedures and they are carried out in such way as to mitigate risks and maximize opportunities.
  • Ensure any and all significant risks and issues are identified/mitigated and flagged in order to promptly escalate it, and propose possible alternatives of solution
  • Due Diligence
  • Assist in capability integration of procurement framework.
  • Assured the contract meets the required conditions.
  • Applied the amendments to the contracts.
  • Certify reviews are thorough from a legal/contractual perspective;
  • Analyze and understand the scope of potential impacts;
  • Participate with Contract Management and Project Management teams to support contract compliance.

Legal Advisor

Ahmed Al Fadda - Attorneys & Counselors at Law
2021.01 - 2021.05
  • Responsibilities: ( Legal Advisor)
  • Providing legal advice and guidance.
  • Drafting contracts, statements of claims, Statements of objections, work statements, and all requirements for government tenders.
  • Meeting clients (individuals or businesses).
  • Attending court hearings.
  • Reading witness statements.
  • Collating evidence and researching case studies.
  • Keeping up to date with changes in the law.
  • Representing clients in trials.
  • Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on possible legal issues.

Legal Officer

AWF Construction
2018.09 - 2020.09
  • Responsibilities: (Legal Officer )
  • Compliance and Administration of Resource Management Act 1991.
  • Manage customer relations by providing a consistently high standard of legal service.

HR Office

Abdulmonem Construction Limited
2011.01 - 2014.01
  • Responsibilities: HR Office
  • Administrative and financial management of the contracts and employees of the company (immigration, salary, Insurance, risk management, supply chain administration)

Education

Bachelor of Laws -

University of Waikato
New Zealand

LANGUAGE

Arabic: Native
English: Fluent

Timeline

Country Senior Business Counsel

Globant
2025.08 - Current

Sr Legal Counsel

JLL
2025.03 - 2025.07

Sr Legal Counsel

Noon E-Commerce
2022.07 - 2025.10

Contract Management

American Express
2021.05 - 2022.07

Legal Advisor

Ahmed Al Fadda - Attorneys & Counselors at Law
2021.01 - 2021.05

Legal Officer

AWF Construction
2018.09 - 2020.09

HR Office

Abdulmonem Construction Limited
2011.01 - 2014.01

Bachelor of Laws -

University of Waikato
Abdullah Alabd