Legal Counsel (Fixed Term Contract)
Full time @Old Mutual Kenya posted 6 hours ago in Legal Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Experience 3 Years
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Independently manage litigation and dispute resolution matters, including arbitration support.
- Coordinate case strategy, documentation, and court processes.
- Liaise with external counsel and monitor performance and cost efficiency.
Contract negotiation
- Review all contracts or any other documentation to which the Company has committed itself and assess legal implications that need to be brought to the executive management’s attention.
- Prepare, review and modify contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities.
- Development of standard contract templates
- Formulate compliance checklists to be used for the purpose of ensuring that all information required is provided accordingly and timely.
Policy development and advisory
- Review and advise the business on the legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
- Draft and review contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
- Assist the business in interpreting and applying statutes, agreements, contracts, rules and regulations through legal opinions.
- Proactively carry out research on emerging legal issues and advise the business on necessary compliance measures to be undertaken.
- Maintain and update the database on legal opinions issued to the business for reporting to management.
Legal Risk
- Collaborate with the Head of Legal Services in undertaking legal & governance audits, recommend, monitor and ensure the mitigation of potential risks.
- Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
- Provide legal and risk management advice to the business especially on contract management.
- Provide and interpret legal information, conduct training and disseminate appropriate legal requirements to staff.
Governance & Company Secretarial Services
- Collaborate with the Company Secretary and other stakeholders to ensure compliance with the regulatory landscape of the business and the Regulator directives.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly reports to the Head of Legal Services for reporting in executive management meetings, Board meetings, and Group meetings.
- Support the Company Secretary in organizing, preparing agendas for, and taking minutes of the board and board committee meetings and annual general meetings (AGMs)
- Ensure that management meetings are operating within the said governance structure.
- Support the Company Secretary in regularly reviewing the terms of reference of the board and board committees as well as management committees.
- Support the Company Secretary in addressing regulatory matters and liaising with the regulators.
- Maintaining of statutory books, including regulatory filings with the respective regulators.
