Legal Counsel
Location | Lagos, Nigeria |
Date Posted | August 12, 2021 |
Category |
Legal
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | NGN |
Description
Responsibilities
- Assist legal in drafting and reviewing transactional documents, including purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, letters of intent, and non-disclosure agreements, to take over these matters from legal.
- Review and monitor ownership step plans and ensure that from a legal perspective all necessary pre-and post- close steps are taken.
- Work with human resources and outside counsel to respond to employee claims; track overall trends and help implement best practices to avoid future disputes.
- Coordinate with Corporate IT on compliance, risk management and submit summaries of activities to legal for review. Identify trends and assist with best practice implementation.
- Assist Peruses general managers with customer contracts and business associate agreements.
- Be a point of contact for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance queries and track continuing compliance with the standard.
- Maintain the formal signing authority and contract approval process for all directors, officers, and general managers.
- Be the lead point of contact in responding to subpoenas, claims, and other corporate matters.
- Review and maintain corporate records and legal entity registers. Ensure that all minute books, officer and director information, and entity information held by local authorities are correct.
- Provide strategic legal advice to management on all matters.
- Track Perseus trademarks and assist with any disputes. Ensure that we are making sound business decisions when deploying resources to protect IP.
- Other tasks may include public filings and disclosures, drafting resolutions, commercial contracting, and litigation management.
- Stay abreast of relevant laws and regulations for the software industry. Document and ensure that the company follows all current business process laws.
- Manage external counsel in a cost-effective manner
Requirements
- Strong trust law and pensions experience required
- Good working knowledge of the Data Protection Act
- In house experience in a large commercial organization
- A strong communicator comfortable with dealing with senior and board executives
- Good drafting skills
- Proactive with a ‘can-do attitude
- Good understanding of regulatory and legal risk
- Knowledge of pensions and financial services compliance and legal risk
- Experience of working in financial services
- Litigation experience.
Applying Instructions
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:
recruitment@talents360.ng
using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.