Legal Officer

Industry: Finance / Job Expires: 2023-03-23 12:00:48 / Location: Kwazulula Natal

Purpose

The successful candidate will be responsible to manage the activities focused on recoveries from defaulting clients, including liaising with external legal advisers/liquidators and business rescue practitioners. Ancillary activities will include providing support to the legal and compliance function in transaction execution and post-transaction monitoring for the company.

Minimum requirements

• LLB Degree.
• At least 2 years post article experience.
• At least 3 years job related experience.
• Understanding of project and commercial agreements such as off take agreements, EPC/M contracts, operations and maintenance agreements, shareholder agreements, CTA, inter-creditor and facility agreements.
• Computer literacy (MS Office Suite).

Main duties

• Provide prompt legal advice to the company in respect of project finance transactional law, equities and financial services law, procurement law, employment law, social media law, with a sound knowledge of corporate law. 
• Perform legal due diligence assessments, drafting, vetting and negotiations of all loan agreements or any other business related agreement. 
• Ensure that all aspects of legal risk are identifies covered and controlled in the implementation of new projects, transactions, precedents, agreements, legal opinions, systems, procedures and products.
• Assist in developing and delivering strategic risk management initiatives which ensures that best practice is adopted in compliance with all guidelines including applicable laws, rules and regulations. 
• Manage legal documents outsourced to third party legal advisors, providing advice to the project investment unit, HR unit, Finance and Procurement unit.
•  Proactively identify and manage legal and risk opportunities through providing sound advice in respect of process and procedure.
• Develop and implement initiatives and tools in-order to coach and guide business on legal requirements and risks in the project finance field so as to minimize and eliminate risk in this legal area. 
• Keep management appraised or key compliance and default issues and possible ways of resolving such matters as well as the estimated risk that will arise from those issues. 
• Provide legal support to the broader company. 
• Attend due diligence assessments relating to the company's investments.

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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us in 4 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

To apply please send your CV to info@heitha.co.za.