Legal Officer, Corporate Transactional Support at First Bank – Apply Now

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides, under the guidance of the
• Team Lead, legal advisory services in respect of various contracts to SBUs,
• SRFs and the Bank’s subsidiaries with respect to structured finance, project
• finance, international trade, oil & gas financing, derivatives,
• telecommunications financing (operators, service providers and dealers)
• highlighting the Bank’s attendant obligations, privileges and rights and
• consequences of breach of such contracts
• Researches and prepares legal opinions on basic day-to-day issues bothering on the Unit’s activities.
• Attending meetings with SBUs and other
• SRFs for purposes of negotiating terms and conditions of commercial transaction to be entered into by the Bank.
• Prepares the drafts of all species of local and cross-border Bonds and Guarantees and vets/reviews drafts of same prepared by counterparties to ensure there are no adverse clauses and that the interest of the Bank is adequately protected and understudies the Team Lead and
• Guarantee Supervisors in the Department in the art of Bonds and Guarantee drafting and reviews.
• Supports the Team Lead in the actualization of numerous product and service offerings, alliances, partnerships and other synergistic relationships created by the Products & Channels Unit.
• Prepares, reviews and vets a wide range of documentation, including but not limited to letter of domiciliation, Indemnities, Irrevocable Remittance Undertakings, Irrevocable Standard Payment Orders, Letters of Comfort, Letters of Support, Letters of Intent, etc.
• Prepare Loan Agreements, Corporate
• Guarantees, Sales & Collection Agreements, Letters of Hypothecation,
• Equipment Leases, Deeds of Release etc.
• Conducts, analyzes, and interprets searches on Certificates of Registration/Incorporation of corporate entities.
• Supports the Team Lead and Unit Head in the provision of general advisory services to the Bank’s subsidiaries.
• Ensures compliance with the principles and policies contained in the Information Security Handbook.
• Works with External Solicitors to verify genuineness of Letters of Administration and probate documents
• Follows up on External Counsel on briefs assigned to them, including but not limited to the processes involved in the preparation and filing of legal pleadings, motions, etc
• Ensures compliance with the principles and policies contained in the Business Continuity Management Handbook.
• Assists the Team Lead and Unit Head in the Unit’s involvement in, and compliance with the Bank’s Information Security
• Management Policies, Business Continuity Management, BS25999, ISO 27001, and initiatives, internal audit outcomes and compliance with recommendations,
• ICAFAS, Business Performance Management, PSQA etc.

External Qualification:
 
Education

Minimum

• Education: First degree in Law and Professional Certificate of Barrister At Law (compulsory)

Experience

Minimum

• Experience: Two years post call, legal practice in chambers