Legal Officer

SUMMARY:

Reporting to the General Legal Counsel, the successful candidate will be responsible to manage the activities focused on recoveries from defaulting clients, including liaising with external legal advisers/liquidators and business rescue practitioners. Ancillary activities will include providing support to the legal and compliance function in transaction execution and post-transaction monitoring for the organization.

POSITION INFO:

Duties

• Provide prompt legal advice to the company in respect of project finance transactional law, equities and financial services law, procurement law, employment law, social media law, with a sound knowledge of corporate law.
• Perform legal due diligence assessments, drafting, vetting and negotiations of all loan agreements or any other business related agreement.
• Ensure that all aspects of legal risk are identifies covered and controlled in the implementation of new projects, transactions, precedents, agreements, legal opinions, systems, procedures and products
• Assist in developing and delivering strategic risk management initiatives which ensures that best practice is adopted in compliance with all guidelines including applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Manage legal documents outsourced to third party legal advisors, providing advice to the project investment unit, HR unit, Finance and Procurement unit.
• Proactively identify and manage legal and risk opportunities through providing sound advice in respect of process and procedure
• Develop and implement initiatives and tools in-order to coach and guide business on legal requirements and risks in the project finance field so as to minimize and eliminate risk in this legal area.
• Keep management appraised or key compliance and default issues and possible ways of resolving such matters as well as the estimated risk that will arise from those issues.
• Provide legal support to the broad.
• Attend due diligence assessments relating to company’s investments

Minimum Requirements

• LLB Degree
• At least 2 years post article experience
• At least 3 years job related experience
• Understanding of project and commercial agreements such as off take agreements, EPC/M contracts, operations and maintenance agreements, shareholder agreements, CTA, inter-creditor and facility agreement
• Ability to report delinquent and problematic clients to collection head to explore next action, calling risky
• Genuine commitment to highest ethical standards and to sustainable development with particular sensitivity to social and environmental issues
• Negotiation, analytical, interpersonal and management skills
• Attention to details
• Diplomatic and business orientated manner;
• Computer literacy (MS Office Suite)
• Ability to communicate at all levels, both internally and externally and
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

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