Legal Officer at ARM Hold Co.

• Job Summary

• The job holder will provide legal support to ARM business units in connection with a diverse range of corporate and commercial transactions including project finance, corporate finance, real estate, mergers & acquisitions, private equity transactions etc.

Job Details

• Company Secretarial Services: Support the effective delivery of company secretarial services including (but not limited to) the planning and organizing of Board meetings, Annual General Meetings, and communication of resolutions and outcomes. Maintenance of best corporate governance practice including but not limited to ensuring that regulatory filings are promptly made, providing advice to management in respect of company secretarial matters, keeping statutory books and ensuring compliance with governance expectations.
• Provide Legal Advisory: Provide legal advisory to internal stakeholders on contracts, financial regulations, and internal policies, as well as on regulatory, institutional, and financial issues arising from the interpretation and application of regulatory requirements / provisions.
• Legal Drafting: Responsible for preparing and reviewing legal documentation for a wide range of the organization’s activities; negotiating relevant drafts or master agreements, reviewing individual transaction documents; proposes and designs appropriate amendments to internal policies and standard documentations / contracts.
• Corporate Finance Transactions: Support and advise the organization in the negotiation and drafting of documentation to effect capital raising activities in the international capital and money markets, and other forms of corporate finance transactions.
• Capital Market Transactions: draft or review debt and equity capital raise documentation, guarantees, trust deeds, security deeds, escrow agreements, safe custody agreements etc. Knowledgeable in legal matters relating to asset management, capital raising and finance.
• Legal Vehicles: Draft and review legal documents concerning the creation of corporate trust funds and Special Purpose Vehicles, with the dual aim of both securing the obligations of the SPV, as well as insulating the organization from the financial and legal risks from these vehicles.
• Collaboration with Compliance Unit: Ensure extensive due diligence, is conducted on counterparties and that all returns and filings to Regulators are promptly made.
• Stakeholder Management: Proactively seek to build mutually beneficial and trusting relationships with both internal stakeholders (subsidiaries and shared service functions), and external stakeholders (i.e. regulators), with the aim of delivering operational impact. 
• Legislative Watch: Proactively identify, analyse, and respond to legislative developments affecting ARM and its subsidiaries with the aim of shaping policies and legislation to ARM’s benefit

Requirements

Education 

• LL. B Degree from an accredited university 
• B.L Degree from the Nigeria Law School 

Experience 

• Minimum of 10 years’ work experience required.
• SEC sponsored individual with experience working in Capital Markets.