Senior Legal Advisor: Litigation, Jhb

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Affirmative Portfolios Full time

**Legal**
**JHB North, Johannesburg - Gauteng**
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**SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR: LITIGATION**

**JOHANNESBURG NORTH**

**Within the Legal Services Department**

**Reports to - Legal Services Manager**

**Key Requirements**:

- 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, ensure rights of the company are protected
- 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 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/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 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.

**Qualifications/LLB**:

- LLB
- Admitted Attorney

**Attributes/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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