Responsibility / Summary

• As a Legal/Company Secretary, you will assist in the analysis of the organization’s legal documents to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• You will conduct legal research, gather evidence, and make recommendations concerning legal matters while also reviewing contracts and agreements, generating and proofreading legal documents, advising, identifying risk, and ensuring a tightly knitted, highly secure legal backing for the company and its clients.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Legal Strategy and Advisory Support:
• Conduct legal research and investigation of complaints, claims and lawsuits
• Prepare regular and ad hoc regulatory filings and maintain counterparty due diligence process.
• Ensuring the legal validity of all activities engaged in by the company by offering advice on statutory regulations through documentation preparation, reviews, research, and professional engagement.
• Conduct research towards the provision of in-house legal advisories on the activities of the company including but not limited to financial, commercial, transactional and labour relation issues and provision of updates on legal changes that affect their respective businesses and the financial industries as a whole.
• Review credit facilities documents to ensure adequacy and avoid undue exposure to the company.
• Review Company’s business strategy to ensure same is within the confines of Legal and Regulatory requirements.
• Provide support in conducting Legal Risk Evaluations
• Preserve repository of Legal responses and create Legal resources for the company’s legal department
• Interpreting laws, rulings and regulations to the Company.
• Manage the provision of expert legal advice to support company stake holders and ensure legal compliance of company decisions, processes and documentation.
• Ensure compliance of all procedures regarding the requirement of CAMA and the Articles of the Association.

Legal Documentation, Contracts and Agreements:

• Draft and review of business contracts and agreements with prospective business partners/vendors and advising the company on any legal implications.
• Ensure proper contract fulfillment in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, and specifications Examine legality of existing company rules and policies and draft and revise legal policies as needed.
• Monitor implementation of legal clauses in agreements and keep track of contracts that require immediate renewal upon expiration.
• Perusal and review of all legal documents and instruments such as memoranda of understanding, vending agreements, mortgage deeds, guarantees, indemnities, pledges, bonds, fixed and floating charges, memoranda of deposit of securities, tenancy and lease agreements, statement of claim, writs of summon and other court processes, etc.
• Maintain database of all pending litigations involving the Company in a schedule, review and update from time to time.
• Summarize disposition transcripts and compile trail materials
• Provide detailed documentation of legal opinions and decisions
• Attend meetings with Business and Operational unit to understand the business and operations of the company.

Company Secretariat:

• Prepare relevant secretariat calendar and schedule for the Board, Board Committees, Statutory Committees, Executive Management, ad-hoc meetings.
• Convey and organise relevant statutory and regulatory meetings including issuing requisite notices, ensuring timely delivery of report, taking minutes, circulating the decisions of the Committee, issuing resolutions and ensuring that there is compliance with laws during such meetings.
• Maintaining relevant statutory books such as Minute books, directors register.
• Ensuring relevant notices and communications to regulators including attending and maintaining relationship with regulators and key contact persons.
• Drafting and reviewing policies, frameworks and charters necessary for the smooth running of the company.
• Other duties as assigned by the Managing Director.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess Bachelor’s Degrees with 4 – 8 years relevant work experience.