job description - Junior Associate
Job holder will:
- Provide responses to client matters. Keep current and accurate time records and ensures billing responsibilities are discharged properly.
- Proffer analytical understanding and interpretation of client problems and their resolution.
- File and review of legal documents.
- Understand and interpret Capital Market Rules, Codes and Regulations. Proffer advice on Project and Asset finance transactions as well as Capital Market transactions.
- Draft, review, negotiate and interpret complex commercial agreements in support of a broad spectrum of business initiatives under the supervision of Senior Associate(s) and Partners.
- Actively engage in transactional, joint venture and Mergers & Acquisition due diligence reviews, document preparation and negotiations, ensuring compliance with applicable national and international laws and regulations.
- Proffer legal opinions and draft agreements with minimal supervision, draft and review finance and security documentation.
- Fulfil other responsibilities as delegated or assigned by the Senior Associates/Partners.
Knowledge, Skills and Competencies Required
- Candidates should possess a BL / LLB / JD qualification
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience with excellent academic credentials.
- A level of interpersonal skills sufficient to enable the post holder to establish and maintain credibility and effective working relationships, with senior contacts both internally and externally.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective client relationships whilst managing multiple stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Highly focused commercial approach to business in addition to legal flair.
- Concise and precise drafting skills.
- Good eye for detail and effective time-management.
- Ability to remain confident and assured in difficult circumstances, and to possess the resilience and stamina to sustain performance, particularly when under pressure.
- Ability to keep abreast of professional, legal, technological, and working practice changes.
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Tope Adebayo LLP is a full-service Nigerian law firm with a global focus on our approach to success and the way we handle our clients' businesses.