Legal Jobs in Nigeria

Job Requirements

• B.Sc Degree
  
• 8 to 10 years full time relevant corporate experience as a transaction lawyer (advisory, structuring, contract drafting and negotiations)
  
• In-house and / or law firm practice experience primarily in M&A and private equity/ venture capital or investment transactions
  
• Excellent negotiation and drafting skills
  
• Ability to be the primary in-house attorney on certain projects, including handling multiple simultaneous transactions or projects
  
• Superior interpersonal skills and team-first attitude
  
• Sound and practical business judgment
  
• Excellent communication and business writing skills
  
• Strong decision-making abilities, attention to detail, and ability to give guidance in a timely manner
  
• Initiative, creativity, proactive and solution driven thinking.
  
• Models/maintains unwavering standards of ethics, conduct and organizational policies.
  
• Ability to work well independently and in a team setting.
  

Job Requirements

• B.Sc Degree
  
• 8 to 10 years full time relevant corporate experience as a transaction lawyer (advisory, structuring, contract drafting and negotiations)
  
• In-house and / or law firm practice experience primarily in M&A and private equity/ venture capital or investment transactions
  
• Excellent negotiation and drafting skills
  
• Ability to be the primary in-house attorney on certain projects, including handling multiple simultaneous transactions or projects
  
• Superior interpersonal skills and team-first attitude
  
• Sound and practical business judgment
  
• Excellent communication and business writing skills
  
• Strong decision-making abilities, attention to detail, and ability to give guidance in a timely manner
  
• Initiative, creativity, proactive and solution driven thinking.
  
• Models/maintains unwavering standards of ethics, conduct and organizational policies.
  
• Ability to work well independently and in a team setting.
  

Job Responsibilities

• Working with core investment teams on required deal structuring input
  
• Reviewing all related draft memoranda and agreements
  
• Support with negotiating agreements
  
• Providing needed legal input along the Investment Making process at the Firm’s operating companies
  
• Analysis and development of key legal learning on past and current deals to serve as precedents to the firm.
  
• Interfacing with external counsel as may be required
  
• Oversight and quality control of work done by external counsel
  
• Managing the value received from external counsel engagements
  
• Supporting with on-going legal input to internal functions and projects
  
• Stress testing by periodically evaluating the Firm’s ongoing compliance with legal, regulatory and commercial obligations
  
• Developing and codifying L&C’s Operating Policies and Manuals
  
• Developing and maintaining L&C’s legal resource centre (hard & electronic)
  
• Business development support: information/relationships leverage, etc to pursue/convert opportunities.