Legal Associate at Rendeavour

Description 

• Draft and/or review legal documents, contracts, term sheets, offer letters, agreements to lease, deed of sublease, procurement agreements, utility agreements, construction and infrastructure development, financing, and other corporate documents etc.
• Identification of potential risk factors for new and existing transactions and suggesting mitigation measures.

Responsibilities 

• Provide litigation and court process drafting support to the Head of Legal.
• Assist in the review of the Corporate Governance Handbook (CGHB)
• Preparation of Board materials for Board meetings
• Taking of minutes of Board meetings
• Drafting and reviewing board resolutions and extracts
• Assist with company secretarial functions, such as statutory filling and updating company records on an ongoing basis in a timely manner (jointly with the Head of Legal);
• Regularly ensure the registration of the title documents with NEPZA/ALARO title registry and or Land Registry at Alausa (jointly with the Head of Legal);
• Following up and ensuring that all board action points are met immediately after the Board meetings
• Flag all non-compliance with the Rendeavour Corporate Governance Handbook, Alaro City
• Development FZC and other Rendeavour entities in Nigeria.
• Drafting, reviewing and optimizing internal guidelines and policies;
• Conduct and commission research and analysis of specific legal questions and preparation of
• information memoranda, opinions, position papers and, any other legal research as may be required;
• Maintain and regularly update the contract database.
• Undertaking internal audits to ensure that the Company’s business is compliant with the legal, regulatory and the joint venture framework;
• Ensuring that the central storage (Egnyte) for all key corporate documents are kept up to date (e.g. constitutional documents, title documents, board materials, key correspondence or letters,
• key financing and commercial agreements), jointly with the Head of Legal;
• Monitoring Nigerian legislation as well as advising on the impact of existing and newly enacted legislation on the Company’s business;
• Consistently complete tasks in accordance with agreed deadlines and to the highest quality standard, meeting or exceeding expectations of internal and external stakeholders; and
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements
Hard Skills and Experience:

• At least 3-6 years of core legal experience;
• Wide and strong network in Nigerian and international business circles;
• Must have been called to the Nigerian Bar
• Strong technical ability in: real estate/property law, utilities (power, water, etc) and infrastructure, corporate/commercial law transactions;

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills;
• Task-oriented, initiative driven, and enthusiastic;
• Mature, pragmatic, and flexible approach, strong commercial judgment.
• Good attention to detail.
• Good planning and organizational skills;
• Excellent report writing and documentation skill;
• Good IT skills; and Good team player.
• Ability to multi-task, establish priorities, and maintain organization in a rapidly changing environment.

Personal characteristics:

• High energy;
• Result-oriented;
• Strong work ethic;
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Polite