Corporate Lawyer / Company Secretary at Digitalents HUB Limited

Digitalent HUB is an Enterprise Technology HUB, with primary focus of leveraging technology to build business and social impact solution, with the guarantee of maximizing the wealth of our stakeholders. We build community, platforms and products as well as provide digital solution for businesses. Its our ambition to offer young people platform to acquire new technology skills as well as partner young bright mind to build high impact social impact venture.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Corporate Lawyer / Company Secretary

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice and support on a wide range of legal activities.
• Drafting and negotiating simple and complex contracts.
• Advising on general business law issues and managing the legal issues of all areas of the company, including but not limited to corporate matters, Land procurement matters, and safety, security, insurance, and sustainability issues.
• Ethics and Compliance and governance services.
• To anticipate and manage the (legal) risks connected with or resulting from the business strategy and operations.
• To secure compliance of business operations with relevant laws and regulations.
• To pro-actively create and maintain awareness of business employees for (compliance with) relevant laws and regulations.
• Ability to deliver high-quality work under deadlines.
• Serve as an advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors on all matters relating to company law.
• Liaise with external counsel, regulators and other third-party service providers
• Responsible for all C.A.C legal compliance issues ensuring proper filing of annual returns and giving necessary notifications to the Corporate Affairs Commission.
• Provide legal consultations to all departments /units where necessary and ensure the company's interest is well protected.
• Draft and review contracts and internal policies as well as ensuring that company is in compliance with all statutory and legal requirements.
• Provide legal advice to Management on the following:
• Commercial and Property law
• Corporate governance
• In corporate and commercial transactions from negotiation to conclusion.
• Serve as custodian of all Company Service Level Agreements and other related documents (make it more robust).
• Monitor changes in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment and take appropriate action.
• Carry out such administrative and other secretarial duties as directed by the Board and Management.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a BL / LLB / JD Degree with 2 - 6 years relevant work experience.

Salary
N75,000 - N200,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
3rd February, 2023.