Detailed description
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:
- Proactively identify, address and manage potential legal risks within the Client.
- Conduct and integrate legal research.
- Steer legal processes for internal clients on complex legal challenges and disputes affecting their operations.
- Provide legal advice and opinion to the Client.
- Draft and conduct vetting on various commercial, financial and currency agreements.
- Lead special projects.
- Manage litigation (on an ad hoc basis).
- Conduct research into a wide range of commercial law, financial law and central banking law matters.
- Take responsibility for addressing issues pertaining to relevant legislation applicable to the Client.
- Report on, and provide guidance, advice and legal opinions to the above-mentioned committees.
- Review and draft the Client's policies.
- Institutionalise processes to enhance efficiencies within the Client.
- Mentor and develop junior legal counsel.
- Job requirements
- have an LLB degree or an equivalent appropriate legal qualification (preferably an LLM);
- be an admitted attorney, advocate or a corporate lawyer within a corporate or investment banking legal environment or reputable banking and finance legal practice; and
- have 8 to 10 years' experience as a practicing attorney, advocate or in-house legal counsel. The following will be an added advantage:
- a solid record in leading and closing complex projects.
- specialist experience in company law.
- Exposure to financial markets, fintech and payment systems.
- Legal
- Monetary
- Financial law
- Commercial law
- Mitigation
- Legal Risk
- Litigation
- Central Banking Law
- Manage
- LLB
- Law
- LLM
- Admitted Attorney
- Advocate
- Corperate Lawyer
- Fintech
- More than 10 years
- Masters