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Asset & Resource Management Holding Company (ARM HoldCo) Job Recruitment for Senior Legal Counsel 2022
Asset & Resource Management Holding Company – Established in 1994 as an asset management firm, ARM offers wealth creation opportunities through a unique blend of traditional asset management and alternative investment services. We enable businesses to thrive, and help our clients to maximize their returns and realise their most important goals.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Summary
- The successful candidate will be responsible for providing legal support, legal advice & services, and company secretarial services to the Boards of the ARM Group and subsidiary companies, Executive Management, Company Executives, as well as the operational, financial and administrative departments of the organization, with the objective of protecting the organization’s interest from legal liability, and where necessary supporting it’s legal defense in cases filed against or brought by the organization.
Key Roles
- Company Secretarial Services: Lead the effective delivery of company secretarial services including (but not limited to) the planning and organizing of Board meetings, Annual General Meetings, and communication of resolutions and outcomes
- Provide Legal Advisory: Provide legal advisory to internal stakeholders on contracts, financial regulations, and internal policies, as well as on regulatory, institutional, and financial issues arising from the interpretation and application of regulatory requirements / provisions.
- Legal Drafting: Responsible for preparing and reviewing legal documentation for a wide range of the organization’s activities; negotiating relevant drafts or master agreements, reviewing individual transaction documents; proposes and designs appropriate amendments to internal policies and standard documentations / contracts.
- Capital Market Transactions: Support and advise the organization in the negotiation and drafting of documentation to effect capital raising activities in the international capital and money markets, and draft or review all legal documents required for the implementation of the organization’s borrowing strategy and capital markets transactions.
- Balance Sheet Management: Provide advisory support to the organization’s Group Chief Risk Officer, as well as the Asset-Liability Management Committee on the legal aspects of balance sheet optimization activities.
- Legal Vehicles: Over-see the drafting and review of legal documents concerning the creation of corporate trust funds and Special Purpose Vehicles, with the dual aim of both securing the obligations of the SPV, as well as insulating the organization from the financial and legal risks from these vehicles.
- Selection of Legal Service Providers: Leads the selection process, for engaging external counsels / legal service providers, on behalf of the organization.
- Stakeholder Management: Proactively seek to build mutually beneficial, and trusting relationships with both internal stakeholders (subsidiaries and shared service functions), and external stakeholders (i.e. regulators), with the aim of delivering operational impact.
- Manage Legal Services Team: Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the Legal Services Team towards the effective delivery of the organization’s learning agenda.
Recommended Key Performance Indicator (KPIs)
- As defined by Supervisor.
Minimum Qualification
Education:
- Candidate must have a LL.B Degree from an accredited university
- L Degree from the Nigeria Law School.
- Minimum of 9 years of work experience (with a minimum of 6 years of prior experience in Legal role).
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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