Senior Legal Counsel

Responsibilities:

• Providing legal advice and legal support to the company’s Board of Directors, Management, and Business Units on legal matters, as well as implementing legal strategies to mitigate risk.
• Drafting and vetting all contracts, documents, and correspondence to mitigate the risk exposure of the Company, such as Service Level Agreements, Software Licensing Agreements, Reseller Agreements, Memorandum of Understanding, Confidentiality Agreements, Joint Venture Agreements, Partnership Agreements, letters, company policies, etc.
• Overseeing the company secretarial function of the company by preparing board papers, organizing and attending Board/Committee Meetings and Annual General Meetings of the company as well as preparing Minutes of Meeting for the Group.
• Liaising with external counsel on matters/legal issues affecting the Group when necessary
• Regulatory Compliance - Ensure timely remittance of filings/returns to Regulators as well as liaising with regulators and government parastatals on regulatory issues about the Group. Preparing and updating a Compliance Dashboard
• Working with internal customers and business units (such as Finance and IT Support) to ensure they are compliant with regulatory guidelines and applicable laws
• Preparing Quarterly legal and compliance reports to the Board and reports incidental to the Legal Unit.
• Managing the Data Protection Portfolio of the Group office and overseeing Data Protection for the Regions.
• Protection of intellectual property rights of the Company by registering intellectual property rights and source codes

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Law (LL. B)
• Master of Laws (LL.M)
• ICSAN or Chartered Governance Institute
• Barrister at Law (BL) 

• Zero Penalties for Regulatory Compliance
• Hold at least 4 Board Meetings and 1 AGM in a year, i.e., 1 Board Meeting each quarter, and ensure that Board Papers are circulated 7 days before the Board Meeting
• Ensure intellectual property registration of all the organization’s Intellectual Property Rights
• Contract Review for New Strategic Partnerships, Platforms/Support Services

• To achieve 100% compliance with regulatory requirements
• To hold Quarterly Board Meetings annually and an Annual General Meeting
• To ensure 100% review and execution of all contracts
• To achieve 100% registration of all the organization’s IPS
• Ensure there is zero litigation/court cases