Our client is an outstanding law firm with a unique reputation for innovation and legal expertise of the highest standard. In other to expand her business operations they seek to hire creative and excellent professionals to join her team.


Job Title: Legal Counsel
Industry: Legal
Sectors: Maritime Law, Commercial Law, Oil & Gas
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Lagos


Main Purpose of Position

We are looking for an excellent Legal Counsel to add value to and be the “backbone” of our business. Ensure that our company operates within the law at all times, offer counsel on legal issues, create an effective guardian of the organisation and facilitate business strategies development. The successful candidate will be able to ensure legal compliance and limit risk exposure.


Job Description

• Provide expert and strategic legal advice to management
• Set internal governance policies, strategies and work tools and manage the impact of external factors
• Provide qualified and highly efficient legal support to identified clients, including providing support in and managing complex transactions.
• Ability to draft, review and negotiate various kinds of business agreements and other legal documents.
• Anticipate issues and estimate risks strategically
• Facilitate the relevant commercial operations of our clients and assist the clients with appropriate risk analysis.
• Be a contact person for one or more identified clients and as such manage and be responsible for the coordination of the legal support vis-à-vis such clients.
• Provide legal training and advice, also to high level executives
• Assist and assume responsibility in all other matters within the field of responsibility.
• Evaluate and weigh multiple inputs and impacts of any decision or course of action
• Attract, develop, direct, motivate and drive performance from team
• Keep abreast of legislative changes
• Undertake any other relevant tasks as requested by the Executive Director


Education and Experience:

• LLB undergraduate degree with a minimum of Second Class Lower.
• At least 5 years’ experience working in a commercial law firm
• A good knowledge of maritime law is required
• Must have worked as a commercial lawyer
• Responsible for providing legal advice for maritime, commercial and oil & gas transactions
• Proven legal counselling experience in business environment
• Overall broad legal knowledge (corporate law, litigations, labor law, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of how legal issues affect organisations
• Ability to develop legal strategy and objectives
• Recognized experience, skills and competences to independently handle legal matters as well as handling any counterparty in negotiations and to support and work with high and top level executives
• Proven track record in providing highly qualified and efficient general commercial legal support and assist the clients with appropriate risk analysis
• Experience in dealing with agreements, regulations and processes


Required Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Enthusiastic and enjoy working hard and being challenged
• Demonstrate sound judgment even in ambiguous situations
• Superior interpersonal skills with ability to work well with peers, different levels of management, and external resources
• Excellent communications skills (written, oral, and listening) with the ability to influence, and inform diverse groups
• Able to effectively deal with a high-volume work-load, rapid cycles, multiple assignments, concurrent deadlines, and changing priorities
• Self-starter, capable of taking on special projects and challenging assignments
• Able to anticipate potential problems and develop mitigation strategies in advance, and to identify legal issues in negotiations and agreements and escalate as needed
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters
• Base your decision making process on ethics and integrity
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information


Remuneration
Salary: N80, 000 – N85,000

Application Deadline:
18th October, 2015

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should click this link to apply >> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1C-AsYOG5OFAQcTcXOxJ6FvLqouHOKtgvEKF-0A5iM_U/viewform?usp=send_form

For further Enquiries
JobMag Centre,
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