Senior Legal Advisor: Litigation

2 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Affirmative Portfolios Full time

**Legal**
**JHB North**
***:
**JOB OUTLINE**

**SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR: LITIGATION - TEMP**

**6 - 12 MONTHS FIXED TERM CONTRACT**

**JOHANNESBURG NORTH**

**SALARY - MARKET RELATED**

**Department - **Legal Services

**Reports to** - The Legal Manager

**Key Responsibilities**:

- 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.
- Provide prompt and sound legal advice and support in particular the Post Investment Department & Turnaround, Workouts and Restructuring department,

**Recoveries**
- 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 the company are protected
- Negotiate settlements
- Brief external attorneys
- Implement and monitor debt recovery, litigation, liquidation and all other legal and Court processes, whether or not outsourced to external law firms

**Turnarounds, Workouts, Restructures**
- Business rescue, restructuring
- Understand instruments, draft agreements, litigate, sequestrate
- Criminal charges
- Exercise guarantees, etc.
- To implement the restructuring of companies, draft and review all legal agreements relating there to
- Manage budgets and relationships with external lawyers, timeously
- Address all legal matters relating to 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 various departments
- Mentor Legal Advisors

**Experience and Skills Required**:

- At least 5 years’ experience post articles experience in similar environment i.e., Private equity, corporate finance, Corporate Finance Management Consulting. etc.
- At least 5 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
- MS Office suite knowledge
- Experience in Turnarounds, Workouts and Restructuring is advantageous
- Professional and courteous to all clients (internal and external)
- Accuracy in preparing legal documentation
- Ability to advice on legal issues related to the business
- Ability to convey legal opinion and argue legally

**Education/Qualifications**:

- LLB
- Admitted Attorney

**Behavioural Competencies**:

- High leadership qualities and teamwork
- Strong sense of initiative and self-motivated
- Strong communication skills
- Efficient presentation skills
- High sense of analysis, attention to detail and judgement
- Integrity
- Problem Solving and Strategic Thinking
- Anticipating and Managing Change
- Business insight and Risk Awareness
- Interpersonal Agility
- Resilience and Stress Management
- Rule Orientation



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