Job Description

• The Legal Counsel Commercial is to support the Associate General Counsel (Corporate & Compliance) in providing proactive, first-class, business-minded legal advice on the Business Finance & Tax, Corporate & Project Finance aspects of the business.
• Construct and manage the legal framework for delivering the liquidity targets for financing the Group’s
• Construct creative and integrated solutions to a wide range of highly sensitive / confidential, novel and/or complex problems or challenges facing the Group, which cut across operational, commercial, governance, compliance, stakeholder management and legal risk management issues.
• Brainstorm with the Business and navigate them through the legal structure and documentation for business ventures that are first of its kind for the Company or in Nigeria
• Build an integrated legal framework and action plan for efficiently delivering the transformational targets of the Group, using the best global practice to ensure high quality results.
• Support the Associate General Counsel (Corporate & Compliance) in proactively monitoring and mitigating legal and regulatory risks, internal and external red flags for the Company and actively uphold the Company’s governance framework and ensure business continuity.

Requirements

• B.L/LLB
• Professional Qualification in Law
• At least 10 years’ experience post-call.
• Strong expertise in drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements for complex transactions across the Corporate & Project Financing value chains, and with local and international private/government parties.
• Ability to drive the legal aspects of, and manage complexities and ambiguities arising within, an entire project/transaction value chain (i.e., from deal structuring to post-completion.
• Working knowledge of the evolving local and international ESG and including the Legal issues and obligations faced by mid-size Oil & Gas Company with dual-listing status

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