28 Legal Professional jobs in Pakistan

As a Legal Counsel, you will assist with general legal tasks, focusing on contract management, compliance monitoring, and regulatory research. This role provides support to senior legal staff on disputes and contract drafting and contributes to the management of intellectual property and compliance with corporate governance requirements.

Job Responsibilities:

Assist in the drafting and negotiation of contracts, focusing on compliance with local and international laws.

Provide legal research on regulatory changes related to data privacy, intellectual property, and corporate law.

Support pre-litigation dispute management, helping to prepare documentation and liaising with external counsel.

Assist in the protection and enforcement of the company’s intellectual property rights.

Contribute to the development of corporate governance policies and ensure compliance across departments.

Conduct basic legal risk assessments and present findings to senior legal staff for decision-making.

Foster communication with external stakeholders, including regulatory bodies and business partners.

Assist in managing the company’s intellectual property portfolio, ensuring compliance with local and international regulations.

Qualifications:

L.L.B. / L.L.M with 2+ years of transaction/corporate experience (1 year of litigation experience with a law firm is preferred).

Fluent in written and spoken English.

Track record of drafting, reviewing, and revising agreements coupled with outstanding communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

Competent in legal research.

Ability to work during the U.S shift.

Compensation and Benefits:

Competitive salary and bi-annual bonus.

Fast track and uncapped career growth for high performers.

Company-sponsored vehicle financing (car and bike).

Interest-free loans.

Provident Fund: CureMD matches up to 8% of your base salary.

Health and Wellness:

In-house clinic with a team of certified male and female doctors with a 24/7 telemedicine service.

Hospital treatment monitoring by company doctors.

Comprehensive health coverage for your immediate family (outpatient, inpatient, maternity, and parents' inpatient).

Exclusive health benefits and discounts at top-class clinics and labs.

Pick-up and drop-off services for female employees.

In-house daycare facility.

In-house gym and recreational area to unwind.

Company-sponsored trainings, workshops, development programs, and retreats.

Paid specialized training/certifications.

The Difference You’ll Make:

At CureMD, every role, whether senior or junior, plays a pivotal part in transforming healthcare. By joining our innovative team, you’ll contribute to groundbreaking technology that directly impacts patient care, enhances healthcare efficiency, and saves lives globally. Your skills and passion will drive meaningful change, helping us deliver solutions that support healthcare professionals in critical, real-time settings. Together, we’re not just advancing technology — we’re making a tangible difference in people’s lives. Together, let’s save lives.

Tajir is a new way for stores to buy inventory. Through the Tajir app, stores can order whenever they want, receive on-demand delivery, and choose from the largest selection of products available. Combined with transparent and competitive prices, Tajir takes a process that took a dozen hours every week and reduces it to a few minutes.

For brands, Tajir ensures that products are always reliably stocked at stores. Brands enjoy higher margin sales with zero additional investment.

Since our launch, we became the first company for Pakistan funded by Y Combinator, raised seed capital and further financing from Kleiner Perkins, and — most importantly — have served over 100,000 stores.

Today, Tajir helps stores save money and boost sales. Our vision is to provide every store in Pakistan the essential services it needs to grow.

• LLB or LLM.

• Hands on knowledge of corporate & labor laws.

• Minimum 2 years of industry experience, preferably in the FMCG sector.

• Proactively identify legal risks and develop mitigation strategies.

• Ensure adherence to legal regulations.

• Ensure all industry-required compliance documents are completed.

• Act as the representative for Tajir in court proceedings, meticulously maintaining records of all cases.

• Skilled in drafting legal agreements and preparing comprehensive legal cases

• Take charge of the process of cash recovery.

• Conduct in-depth research on legal statutes and case laws to uphold informed decision-making.

• Manage legal matters involving interactions with government institutions.

Job Description:

• Corporate Governance: Assist in managing corporate governance matters, including board meetings, shareholder resolutions and corporate filings. 
• Contract Review & Negotiation: Draft, review and negotiate a variety of contracts, including commercial agreements, partnership agreements, licensing agreements and NDAs
• Regulatory Compliance: Assist in ensuring compliance with relevant financial services regulations, data protection laws and industry-specific rules. Support the team in responding to regulatory inquiries and audits.
• M&A & Investments: Assist in due diligence and legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and investment transactions.
• Risk Management: Identify and advice on potential legal risks, liabilities and exposures associated with the company's operations, products and services.
• Litigation Support: Provide support in dispute resolution, including managing external counsel and developing strategies to address legal challenges.
• Advisory Support: Provide day-to-day legal advice to business teams on a variety of issues, such as product development, marketing, intellectual property and customer agreements. 

Qualification and Experience:

• LLB/LLM or Relevant Degree
• 2-4 Years of experience in Banking industry
• prior banking experience is mandatory
  

Location:

Islamabad

Grade Level: L2/L3

Location: Islamabad

Last date to apply: 17 July 2025

What is Legal Counsel Contracts?

The key function of this role is to provide dedicated legal support select functional departments within Jazz, entailing consultation, advice, contract review and negotiation in line with the organization's internal values, policies, procedures and applicable law and to do so independently and decisively. The role will be responsible for both day-to-day operational activities as well as strategic initiatives and projects and will be required to collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders. The role reports directly to Head of Contracts.

What do Legal Counsel Contracts do?

• Independently draft and review contracts and engage with internal stakeholders, negotiate directly with counter parties in case of any contention/conflict to provide clarifications and to seek mutual agreement accordingly
• Provide legal assistance to relevant internal stakeholders after carefully understanding the business context surrounding the contract and its impact vis-à-vis the business needs.
• Support to effectively offer a legal view on various matters, from within the organization and on industry related matters to be fully compliant with respective laws and policies.
• Provide opinions and legal advice to personnel at all levels of the business on existing and new commercial arrangements.
• Recognize when issues require specialist legal support and to obtain such support and advice to ensure maximum benefit for the company without incurring unnecessary costs.
• Engage in training of relevant business personnel (both informal trainings and structured programmes) on legal developments, contract management as well as on policies/procedures owned by or supported by the Legal function.
• Provide legal advice over all aspects pertaining to any new strategic initiatives and ventures including investments, new business lines etc.
• Assist in streamlining processes and procedures pertaining to key risk areas such as AML, CTF, export controls & sanctions, data protection, anti-bribery and anti-corruption etc. for DFS projects.
• Utilise legal expertise with regard to digital financial services that the Company is engaged in.
• Manage overall day-to-day affairs of the contracts section of the legal department of the company in more digitized manner.
• Consult and support HOD with HQ on policy review and trainings related to the company falling under the domain of legal including sanctions and export controls.
• Be able to liaise with the governance team on Group governance matters related to contracts.
• Formulate strategy to standardize the process of managing the flows of contracts between organization and its clients.
• Able to work in cross functional teams in special projects/ merger and acquisitions and effectively manage legal deliverables.

Jazz is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support, and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

What are we looking for and what does it require to Legal Counsel Contracts?

• LLB/LLM/Bar at Law Degree with at least 4 to 6 years working experience in an in-house legal team or law firm/chamber.
• Knowledge of the legal framework especially company and telecom laws in Pakistan.
• Knowledge of contract, corporate and intellectual property laws.
• Legal research, negotiation and contract drafting and review
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, as well as experience in stakeholder management
• Coming up with legal solutions focused towards delivering real time business value.
• Strong writing skills.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking skills and ability to research.
• Strong negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills, as well as experience in stakeholder management.
• Decision making & problem solving.
• Teamwork.

Why Join Jazz?

As one of the leading employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each Jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.

Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer-obsession.

As one of the largest private sector organizations in Pakistan, our objective is to continue to change the lives of our 75 million customers for the better. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the role

Responsible for providing legal support to Careem's business units. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background in law and a passion for helping businesses succeed.

What you’ll do

• Provide legal support to Careem's business units on a variety of issues, working closely with the rest of Careem’s legal, procurement and compliance teams.
• Draft and negotiate contracts, including purchase agreements, non-disclosure agreements, marketing agreements and service agreements.
• Conduct legal research and analysis to support the Careem's business decisions.
• Provide administrative and technical support to the Careem legal team, including maintaining and organising contracts and tracking legal documents.
• Research and prepare the necessary documentation for setting up new legal entities.
• Provide ongoing support to legal entities, including preparation of the necessary documentation for statutory filings and license renewals.
• Stay up-to-date on changes in the law and their impact on Careem's business.

What you need

• Minimum of a law degree from a reputable university
• Fluent in English (both oral and written)
• Minimum of 2 years of work experience
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable in working with shifting priorities, ambiguity and fast-paced environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

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Responsible for providing legal support to Careem's business units. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background in law and a passion for helping businesses succeed.

• Provide legal support to Careem's business units on a variety of issues, working closely with the legal, procurement, and compliance teams.
• Draft and negotiate contracts, including purchase agreements, non-disclosure agreements, marketing agreements, and service agreements.
• Conduct legal research and analysis to support business decisions.
• Maintain and organize contracts and legal documents, providing administrative and technical support to the legal team.
• Research and prepare documentation for establishing new legal entities and support ongoing legal entity operations, including statutory filings and license renewals.
• Stay informed about legal changes affecting Careem's business.

• A law degree from a reputable university.
• Fluency in English (oral and written).
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

We offer opportunities to make an impact, learn, and grow within a supportive community. As a full-time Careem employee, you will:

• Work and learn alongside inspiring colleagues.
• Contribute to a purposeful organization focused on regional impact.
• Explore new learning and growth opportunities daily.
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements: 4 days in the office and 1 day remote, or 2 days in the office and 3 days remote for tech roles, plus 30 days of remote work per year and unlimited vacation.
• Access healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities.