Job Title: Senor Legal Officer [Nairobi/Abidjan/Abuja]
Grade: S5
Department: Legal Services Department
Workplace Nairobi/Abidjan/Abuja
DEPARTMENT PURPOSE STATEMENT
The Legal Services Department (LSD) provides legal services to the Company in order to protect the Company’s interests in all its transactions with external parties, reduce legal and litigation risk and ultimately financial loss.
JOB PURPOSE
1. To primarily support business development and investor engagement through drafting, reviewing and engrossing legal agreements e.g. facility agreements, addendums, security agreements, inter-lender agreements, fundraising agreements, memoranda of understanding etc.
2. To give a pro-active professional, competent, (cost) effective and creative legal support.
3. Manage external deal counsels, in conjunction with the investment team during execution of transactions.
4. To bring negotiation and drafting skills and business sense to deal with multiple functional teams in a rapidly scaling business.
5. To attend and participate in working groups and appraisal missions.
6. To oversee compilation of conditions precedent and clearance of disbursement.
7. To participate in any internal committees, either ad-hoc or substantive.
8. To oversee and coordinate release and/or discharge of securities advanced by the Company either to borrowers or employees.
9. Provide compliance support and advice with respect to information barriers, restricted list reviews, inside information and thresholds.
10. Follow-up on the implementation of the provisions of the various financing agreements, including examination of documents, ensuring fulfilment of all preconditions, and recommending the declaration of effectiveness after ensuring that all its requirements are met.
11. Preparing periodic and annual reports required under the client’s policy.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Ability to become involved quickly and actively in the department.
2. Ability to maintain a high level of confidentially.
3. Enthusiasm, reliability, honesty with high integrity and discretion and Ability to protect sensitive information.
4. Ability to work under tight deadline.
5. Negotiating skills and capacity to work with other professionals including non-legal professionals to develop innovative solutions.
6. Strong skills in drafting a variety of legal documents and communicating complex issues clearly and concisely.
7. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with broad, generalist responsibilities, but with specialist legal subject skills.
8. Take initiative to identify and analyze problems, generate alternative solutions and make decisions.
9. Ability to communicate and function in a culturally diverse and change oriented setting with good knowledge of project management practices in Africa and internationally.
10. Excellent organizational.
11. Ability to draft instantly minutes and reports.
12. Willing and able to relocate to Nairobi or any regional office of the client
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Direct Reports:
1. Head, Legal Services Department
Customers of the Position: Transversally
Internal:
1. Business Development
2. Finance
3. Investor Relations
4. Loans Management Unit
5. Company Secretary
6. Enterprise Risk Management
7. Human Resource and Administration
External:
1. Potential Clients
2. Lenders
3. Potential Fundraisers
4. Potential Investors
5. Borrowers
6. Existing Clients/Borrowers
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