Project Legal Advisor
- Full-time
Company Description
Alpha Mead Group is a Total Real Estate Solutions Company established to provide robust business support services to local and international Real Estate investors or owners with interests in Facilities Management, Real Estate Development and Advisory, Security Systems and Technologies, Training, Healthcare Management, and Real Estate Financing Services.
Job Description
Are you passionate about corporate governance and providing effective legal solutions? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy minimizing business liabilities? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Project Legal Advisor to join our dynamic team.
As a Project Legal Advisor, you will work closely with the Head of Legal & Company Secretary to ensure the highest level of corporate governance within our Group, while providing quality legal solutions and minimizing business liabilities, exposure, and interruption.
Responsibilities:
- Draft and review agreements, contracts, MOUs, SLAs, and letters of award for the Group and our subsidiary companies in Nigeria.
- Maintain an up-to-date contract schedule for the Group and our subsidiary companies in Nigeria.
- Focus on the commercial business and legal support to ensure that the business has good and solid relationships with all external stakeholders including but not limited to customers, suppliers, distributors, and agents. This will include negotiation and finalization of all agreements, providing advice on the consumer, competition, labour, and all other commercial law.
- Ensure legal due diligence during land/property acquisition; Title investigation & Local legislation.
- Ensure compliance with the Contracts Management Policy, Process, and Procedures.
- Draft and ensure standardization (to the extent possible) of legal documents such as Title transfer deeds, Agreements of sale, Offer letters, Conveyance documents, Lease Deeds, License Agreements, etc.
- Provide in-depth legal opinions on various issues affecting the Group and its subsidiaries.
- Draft and review legal correspondence.
- Conduct legal research and constantly monitor legal and regulatory changes for timely updates and legal analysis.
- Attend and monitor all pending litigations and proceedings involving the Company.
- Attend and monitor all pending law enforcement matters involving the Group and its subsidiaries.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of the Legal & Company Secretary department.
Qualifications
- LLB and B.L degree.
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience.
- Knowledge of corporate and commercial law is a must-have
- Real estate experience is strongly desired
- Good grasp of relevant laws and hands-on interpretation and application of company secretarial issues.
- Experience interfacing with the law enforcement agency
- Excellent communication, research, presentation, and analysis skills.
- Proven ability to determine priorities, cope with high volumes of work, plan and organize workloads, set targets, meet deadlines, and achieve high-standard results.
Additional Information
- Good professional appearance and attitude.
- Diplomatic, tactful, discreet, flexible, resourceful and dependable
- Excellent leadership and project management skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Attention to details