Legal Officer at Abbey Mortgage Bank Plc

Abbey Mortgage Bank Plc is the premier, largest and most profitable, non-aligned Primary Mortgage Bank in Nigeria. Abbey is one of the seven national Primary Mortgage Banks (PMB) licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN). The recent recapitalization exercise saw the downsize from 105 mortgage banks to only 34 now surviving. We not only emerged successfully capitalized but one of the few that also met our National obligation as well as amongst the public liability companies.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Officer

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Legal Advisory on Mortgage, Land use, and other related matters
• Liaising with Board of Directors, convening and servicing annual general meetings.Consult and handle all corporate legal processes (e.g. mergers & acquisitions, financial/securities offerings. compliance issues, transactions, agreements, lawsuits, patents)
• Structure, draft and review reports and other legal documents relating to mortgages etc
• Represent company in legal proceedings (administrative boards, court trials etc)
• Draft and administer all real estate and non-real estate related contracts.
• Administration of AGM

Requirements

• 2nd Class Upper degree in Law
• 4-5 years post-bar experience
• Very Sound knowledge and understanding of Mortgage laws.
• LLM and ICSAN certification is an added advantage

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.