• Application Deadline:
• Position: Senior Legal Counsel - Corporate & Regulatory


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 10 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Law / Legal 
  

Requisition ID: req31270

Team: Legal

Job Grade: 10

About Your New Job

• The Senior Counsel - Corporate & Regulatory as a member of the legal team is responsible for legal advice on regulatory matters, delivering on all significant corporate and property transactions involving the business and is a key member of the incident crises management team.


• The Senior Counsel is an expert on CMS (Contract Management Tool) for managing transactions and ensuring business wide compliance with targets on Template Use and Approval systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitors legislative developments and reviews regulations and legislation involving the business.


• Protect the company’s interests by ensuring statutory compliance to extant laws, mitigating legal risks and exposures thus safeguarding the company’s reputation.


• Conduct legal and corporate due diligence for property acquisitions, property management and handle the legal aspects of development projects.


• Negotiate, review, and standardize procurement contracts and contract management tool


• Support execution of strategic business projects.


• Support partner functions with initiatives & trainings to strengthen capability on negotiation I contracts management, regulatory compliance.


• Share expertise with leadership team and provide advice and guidance on legal/ regulatory matters.


• Provide strategic and practical legal advice to the business on sustainability matters, with active participation in industry engagement with regulators.


• Collaborate with partner functions to evaluate policies to promote compliance with legal requirements and group policies.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Law; and Qualification as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


• 10+ years of related professional work experience


• Demonstrated ability to challenge and influence employees at all levels to build a culture of high integrity and compliance.

Do You Have These Skills?

• Decision Quality


• Resourcefulness


• Collaborates


• Customer Focus


• Drives Engagement


• Build Networks


• Resourcefulness


• Negotiation


• Plans and Aligns


• Strategic thinking


• Problem solving


• Project management.