Senior Legal Advisor

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Edge Executive Search Full time

Our client, an investment company are looking to appoint a Senior Legal Advisor with experience in Litigation, who will join the Legal Services team on a **f**ixe**d-term contract.**

The purpose of this role is to provide sound legal support to post-investment monitoring of investments 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.

**Job description**
- To 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
- To 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
- Negotiate settlements
- Brief external attorneys
- To 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 thereto
- Manage budgets and relationships with external lawyers, timeously
- To address all legal matters relating to the company and 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 various departments
- Mentor Legal Advisors

**Minimum requirements**
**Qualifications**
- LLB
- Admitted Attorney

**Experience/Skills required**
- At least 8 years’ experience post articles experience in similar environment i.e. Private Equity, Corporate finance, Corporate Finance Management Consulting etc.
- At least 8 years of 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
- Ability to convey legal opinion and argue legally

**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

For more information please contact:
**Elana Samuel

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