Senior Legal Advisor

About the position

We're on the lookout for a Senior Legal Advisor to provide sound legal support to post-investment monitoring of investment where there are emerging defaults on loan servicing. Active involvement in deal re-structuring, understand and analyse the commercial aspects of the transaction and give expert legal solutions. (temporary, 6 months fixed-term contract).



Duties & Responsibilities:

• To provide legal input to submissions on existing investments prepared for the Portfolio Management Committee and other committees where relevant.
• Implement Committee decisions to recover monies, ensure rights of organization are protected.
• Negotiate settlements.
• Brief external attorneys
• To implement and monitor debt recovery, litigation, liquidation and all other legal and Court processes, whether or not outsourced to external law firms.
• Manage budgets and relationships with external lawyers, timeously.
• To address all legal matters relating to the NEF and its investee companies, implement amendments to funding structures and terms and negotiation of contracts with investee companies or third parties
• Provide general legal advice to the NEF’s various departments.
• Mentor Legal Advisors.

Experience/skills required:

• At least 8 years’ experience post articles experience in similar environment i.e. Private equity, Corporate Finance, Corporate Finance Management Consulting etc.
• At least 8 years litigation, business rescue and Court experience
• Experience in securities law; and/or
• Experience in insolvency law; and/or
• General experience in commercial law; and/or
• Proven working knowledge of Company law, Tax law and NCR.
• Business report writing
• LLB
• Admitted Attorney

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not receive any communication within 2 weeks, kindly consider yourself unsuccessful.

Desired Skills:

• Strong communication skills
• Efficient presentation skills
• High leadership qualities and teamwork
• Strong sense of initiative and self-motivated