Raneen stanley

Senior Legal Counsel | Strategic Legal Advisor | AI & Legal Technology | Data Privacy & GDPR

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Acted as an advisor to General Counsel and in-house legal teams across the GCC and Europe, translating legal requirements into practical AI-driven solutions. Collaborated cross-functionally with sales, product, and customer success teams to support client engagements and adoption.

• •Partnered with legal teams to drive the adoption of AI-powered legal technology, supporting organisations in automating legal workflows.
• •Built playbooks and contract automation workflows to translate business requirements into practical solutions.
• •Represented Legalfly at industry conferences, webinars, and executive roundtables.
• •Shared insights on legal AI, automation, and AI governance during public speaking engagements.

Shaped legal strategy for business leaders across the Middle East and EMEA, providing commercial counsel on regulatory and contractual matters while enabling new digital products through guidance on data privacy, cloud services, and cross-border data transfers.

• •Led the implementation of Aon's regional data privacy program across 15 legal entities and 500 employees in 5 GCC countries, embedding privacy governance into business operations.
• •Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated commercial, vendor, and service agreements to balance legal risk with business objectives.
• •Established a regional privacy governance program by developing policies, conducting risk assessments, and leading a network of Privacy Champions to strengthen compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Advised business stakeholders on regulatory risk while drafting privacy and service agreements. Supported the enterprise privacy program design to embed compliance across business functions.

• •Conducted Privacy Impact Assessments, developed privacy policies, and delivered organization wide data protection training to mitigate risks.
• •Served as an advisor to Privacy Champions by providing practical guidance on data protection and commercial initiatives.

Provided commercial legal and privacy advice to clients across automotive, healthcare, public, and corporate sectors on a secondment basis. Supported strategic business initiatives and regulatory compliance while balancing legal risk with commercial objectives.

• •Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated commercial, vendor, and service agreements.
• •Led commercial contract management and privacy implementation projects, integrating Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default principles into business processes and technology solutions.
• •Advised clients on complex privacy and regulatory challenges by conducting gap analyses, Privacy Impact Assessments, and risk assessments, and implementing privacy governance frameworks.

• •Translated formal documents between Dutch and Arabic for law firms and hospitals.

• •Engaged with customers to obtain missing customer due diligence information and documentation within established service levels.
• •Maintained alignment with government regulations, international laws, and internal bank policies.

• •Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated privacy and service agreements while advising business stakeholders on contractual and regulatory risk.
• •Supported the design and rollout of the enterprise-wide privacy program, embedding GDPR compliance across multiple business functions.

• •Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated a broad range of commercial, vendor, and service agreements, balancing legal risk with business objectives.
• •Led commercial contract management and privacy implementation projects, integrating privacy principles into business processes and technology solutions.

• •Translated documents between Dutch and Arabic for various institutional clients.
• •Performed interpretation services for hospitals, law firms, and government offices.

Education

privacy, IP, commercial contracts

• Graduation year: 2014
• Focus area’s: privacy, IP, commercial contracts

criminal, private, public and commercial law, International and European law

• Graduation year: 2011
• Focus area’s: criminal, private, public and commercial law, International and European law

International and European law

• Graduation year: 2010
• Focus area’s: International and European law

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