Senior Legal Counsel

Qualifications & Experience

• Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
  
• At least 10-years’ post-call experience
  

• Develop, oversee and evaluate the efficacy of control systems to prevent or resolve violations of legal guidelines and internal policies.
  
• Regularly assess the efficiency of control systems and recommend effective improvements.
  
• Perform regular audits on company procedures and processes, revising them when necessary
  
• Assess the business’s future ventures to identify likely compliance risks
  
• Coordinate with different department managers to review all departmental compliance policies
  
• Collaborate with corporate counsels and HR departments to monitor enforcement of standards and regulations
  
• Keep abreast of regulatory developments, evolving best practices in compliance control
  
• Prepare reports for senior management and external regulatory bodies as appropriate.
  
• Resolving all disputes at Pre-litigation/Arbitration/Mediation stage(s) (arising at plant-level)
  
• Addressing Consumer Complaints
  
• Keeping the Company’s Trade Mark records, and ensuring Intellectual Property protection
  
• Ensuring regulatory compliance i.e: Factory Compliance, Engineering, Project Compliance & Product Compliance
  
• Providing advice at plant level in the following areas:
  
• Regulatory & Ethical Compliance
  
• Intellectual Property
  
• Property management (tenancies, leaseholds, freeholds) of SBC’s and related parties’ holding & real estate transactions
  
• Drafting and reviewing Plant-level contracts