Senior Specialist Legal Affairs

Responsibilities:
• Assess and advise on liabilities, legal restrictions and risks of proposed legal transactions and devise creative and practical legal solutions to meet the commercial needs (where necessary having obtained legal opinions from external legal counsel).
• Organizational Responsibility: (i) identify organizational needs; and (ii) initiate and complete projects to address such needs.
• Draft, review, amend and negotiate a broad range of agreements (including specialist agreements).
• Lead, mentor, develop and train other attorneys to help them be successful in their roles and to progress in their skills and abilities.
• Responsible for running large, medium and small transactions with little support from portfolio Senior Manager.
• Identify, advise, implement and develop general and specialist legal strategy with the portfolio Senior Manager.
• Manage external legal counsel fees effectively to achieve desired results at reasonable costs.
• Responsible to portfolio Senior Manager for general legal matters relating to the assigned portfolio or any other legal matters required by the Senior Manager and which may arise from time to time.
• Responsible for the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and implementation of legal processes with respect to the specialist area.
• Facilitate, develop and conduct legal training seminars for internal clients to help raise awareness with respect to legal matters.