Paralegal Specialist

Drafting of standard agreements and compiling legal templates, trademark and patent renewals
- Compiling and maintaining a contracts precedent database
- Providing assistance to legal counsels on matters of research, corporate verification, and legal templates
- Providing standard legal opinions
- Maintaining a Group legal risk register
- Compliance officer for Group Secretariat
- Assist with the updating of all local and foreign statutory records
- Maintain an updated organogram of the Group’s legal entities
- Assist the Board Support manager with taking minutes of Board and Committees
- Update Board and divisional board minute books
- Provide ad-hoc governance support as and when required.
- Organise, prepare agendas and attend meetings, take and distribute minutes, formulate decision matrixes and attend to action plans.
- Deal with correspondence, collating information and writing reports to ensure that decisions made are communicated to the relevant stakeholders.
- Understand the interrelations of all AECI companies and regions
- Assist the Group Co & General Counsel with legal and corporate statutory support i.e. organizing corporate calendars, and meetings, scheduling Legal department meetings

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Legal degree
- 5-8 years work experience in an established large law firm
- Computer literacy essential
- Working knowledge of the corporate process is important