Team Lead - Corporates Commercial at Gresyndale Legal

Gresyndale is a law firm with over 50 years of cumulative experience in various areas of the law and armed with a devoted team of diligent and excellent lawyers who pride themselves in giving quality and unrivalled service.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead - Corporates Commercial

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Work independently with little or no supervision
• Draft and implement instructions with accuracy
• Develop an effective and efficient working style for the team to encourage team approach as well as independent matter management
• Supervision and management of matters handled by the team and preparation of regular reports to the Head of Department
• Conduct of Team meetings
• Managing Clients’ demands and requests
• Identify training opportunities for the team
• Facilitating training, seminars and other scheduled events
• Identification of matters requiring escalation and escalation of same to the Head of Department
• Conduct of any other assigned supervisory role
• Creating compliance document for the team and ensuring its application upon approval of same
• Drafting, review and negotiation of a wide range of contracts and other legal documents including service agreements, master agreements, financing agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements, property documents and other general commercial contracts;
• Due diligence searches;
• Advising on business structuring and restructuring, Joint Ventures and other partnership arrangements;
• Protect the Clients against legal risks and violations.
• Negotiate deals on behalf of Clients.
• Preparation of reports and write-ups on relevant issues in the corporate commercial world.
• Company registration
• Trademark registration
• Providing general legal support to the team
• Provision of proper and regular updates to Clients
• Managing Client interviews
• Effective use of the Gresyndale app and other software as may be introduced from time to time
• Review of colleagues’ work
• Attending office meetings
• Carrying out any other function assigned to the team

Requirements

• 4-8 years of relevant experience
• Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks effectively in a fast paced environment

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.