The Transactional Senior Associate is the firm\'s execution engine across its most commercially active practice areas -Financing Advisory, Real Estate, Private Wealth, and Legal and Compliance. While the Founder and Chair lead strategy, origination, and complex advisory across all service lines, this Senior Associate delivers the documentation, due diligence, and transactional execution.
This role spans the full breadth of the firm\'s transactional work: capital raise documentation and fundraising legal advisory, commercial contract drafting and negotiation, acquisition and merger documentation, due diligence across real estate and corporate transactions, trust and estate planning documentation, and the full range of agreements the firm produces for its clients daily.
Junior Associate 2 reports to and is developed by this Senior Associate, creating a two-person transactional team capable of running multiple concurrent mandates across service lines.
Role Responsibilities
Financing and Capital Raise·
- Draft and review all capital raise documentation, term sheets, subscription agreements, shareholder agreements, convertible note agreements, and simple agreements for future equity
- Advise on and document fundraising structures, Series A through Series B equity raises, private placements, and debt financing from the legal perspective
- Review and negotiate transaction documentation for mergers and acquisitions, share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, warranties and indemnities, and completion mechanics
- Prepare legal due diligence reports for financing transactions and advise clients on identified risks and mitigants
Commercial Contracts and Agreements
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts across all service lines, service agreements, distribution agreements, joint venture agreements, partnership agreements, licensing agreements, and employment contracts
- Advise clients on contractual risk allocation, limitation of liability clauses, indemnities, force majeure, and termination provisions
- Draft and advise on special purpose vehicle structures for real estate, private equity, and infrastructure transactions
- Prepare and review transaction documents for real estate acquisitions, sale and purchase agreements, deed of assignment, perfection documentation, and escrow agreements
Trusts, Estates and Private Wealth Documentation
- Draft trust deeds, letters of wishes, trustee mandates, and ancillary trust documentation under the supervision of the Founder and Chair
- Prepare succession planning documentation, wills, deeds of family arrangement, and estate administration correspondence
- Assist in structuring family office and private wealth arrangements, partnership agreements, investment policy statements, and inter-generational wealth transfer structures
Due Diligence and Advisory
- Conduct and coordinate legal due diligence across corporate, real estate, and financing transactions, title investigations, corporate registry searches, regulatory checks, and litigation searches
- Prepare due diligence reports, risk matrices, and summary reports for client presentations and transaction closing
- Supervise, train, and develop Junior Associate 2, providing daily guidance, work allocation, quality review, and monthly development reviews
Experience/Qualification
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years post-call Nigerian legal practice with a clear transactional focus, financing, corporate, real estate, or private wealth
- Valid current-year Nigerian Bar Association PracticingCertificate (mandatory)
- Demonstrable experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements and transaction documents independently
- Experience with Nigerian fundraising documentation, term sheets, subscription agreements, shareholder agreements (either from a law firm or in-house context)
- Exposure to real estate transactions: title investigation, sale and purchase agreements, perfection documentation, is a strong advantage
- Experience with trusts and estate planning documentation is a significant advantage
- Strong legal drafting skills: speed and precision in documentation are essential to this role
Competencies/Skills
- Advanced understanding of company operations and processes
- Proficiency in MS Office, ERP systems, and relevant software tools
- Report preparation, data analysis, and documentation
- Project coordination and task management
- Client handling and relationship management
- Data interpretation and performance monitoring
- Process improvement and workflow optimization
- Initiative in proposing solutions and improvements
- Behavioural Qualities/Other Competences
- Leadership and mentoring of junior staff
- Effective verbal and written communication
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Professionalism and work ethics
- Adaptability and stress management
- Attention to detail and accountability
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