• Application Deadline: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Legal Officer, Corporate Transactional Support


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 2 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Law / Legal 
  

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides, under the guidance of the


• Team Lead, legal advisory services in respect of various contracts to SBUs,


• SRFs and the Bank’s subsidiaries with respect to structured finance, project


• finance, international trade, oil & gas financing, derivatives,


• telecommunications financing (operators, service providers and dealers)


• highlighting the Bank’s attendant obligations, privileges and rights and


• consequences of breach of such contracts


• Researches and prepares legal opinions on basic day-to-day issues bothering on the Unit’s activities.


• Attending meetings with SBUs and other


• SRFs for purposes of negotiating terms and conditions of commercial transaction to be entered into by the Bank.


• Prepares the drafts of all species of local and cross-border Bonds and Guarantees and vets/reviews drafts of same prepared by counterparties to ensure there are no adverse clauses and that the interest of the Bank is adequately protected and understudies the Team Lead and


• Guarantee Supervisors in the Department in the art of Bonds and Guarantee drafting and reviews.


• Supports the Team Lead in the actualization of numerous product and service offerings, alliances, partnerships and other synergistic relationships created by the Products & Channels Unit.


• Prepares, reviews and vets a wide range of documentation, including but not limited to letter of domiciliation, Indemnities, Irrevocable Remittance Undertakings, Irrevocable Standard Payment Orders, Letters of Comfort, Letters of Support, Letters of Intent, etc.


• Prepare Loan Agreements, Corporate


• Guarantees, Sales & Collection Agreements, Letters of Hypothecation,


• Equipment Leases, Deeds of Release etc.


• Conducts, analyzes, and interprets searches on Certificates of Registration/Incorporation of corporate entities.


• Supports the Team Lead and Unit Head in the provision of general advisory services to the Bank’s subsidiaries.


• Ensures compliance with the principles and policies contained in the Information Security Handbook.


• Works with External Solicitors to verify genuineness of Letters of Administration and probate documents


• Follows up on External Counsel on briefs assigned to them, including but not limited to the processes involved in the preparation and filing of legal pleadings, motions, etc


• Ensures compliance with the principles and policies contained in the Business Continuity Management Handbook.


• Assists the Team Lead and Unit Head in the Unit’s involvement in, and compliance with the Bank’s Information Security


• Management Policies, Business Continuity Management, BS25999, ISO 27001, and initiatives, internal audit outcomes and compliance with recommendations,


• ICAFAS, Business Performance Management, PSQA etc.

External Qualification:

 

Education

Minimum

• Education: First degree in Law and Professional Certificate of Barrister At Law (compulsory)

Experience

Minimum

• Experience: Two years post call, legal practice in chambers