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Job Description
Legal Associate – a junior associate, with commercial litigation experience, for our internal legal department.
Spartan requires a Junior Legal Associate to fulfil the legal function in transaction execution, post-transaction monitoring and project management for recoveries:
This is NOT a legal advisor role NOR a regulatory compliance role.
- Assisting with the vetting of the terms and conditions of deals from a legal perspective prior to the Credit Committee approving a deal
- Drafting legal agreements and related documents from standard templates (e.g. Loan Agreements, Pledge and Cession Agreements, Guarantees, etc.)
- Instructing attorneys to attend to the registration of securities (e.g. mortgage bonds, special notarial bonds, etc.)
- Liaising with colleagues regarding conditions, implementation, and execution of deals
- Ensuring compliance with all other conditions of a deal prior to disbursing funds on a deal
- Assisting with general recovery matters (e.g. Sending letters of demand/breach, liaising with external attorneys, etc.)
- General monitoring of portfolio
- Provide legal advice and services to the organisation in corporate and commercial matters
- Performing KYC/FICA/AML/PEP checks on clients
- Drafting finance facility Term Sheets, ensuring they encapsulate the terms of the credit approval and perform general administration in respect of the facility agreement preparations and finalisation
- Attend to queries from credit analysts, operations, and clients, providing legal expertise to the Credit Committee
- Draft documentation including regulatory required documents, non-standard security agreements and resolutions.
- To ensure that all client documents are up to date and signed off correctly and all required information is loaded onto the system
We’re more effective as a team that works closely together and engages with its customers and stakeholders, face-to-face – consequently we are entirely office based [i.e. no work-from-home mode].
Required Qualifications
- Admitted Attorney
- Law Degree
- 1-2 year’s post articles work experience
Desired Skills
- Obsessive about controlling documentation – understands the impact of incorrect paperwork
- Attention to deal
- Organized & professional work ethic
- Ability to take initiative and learn quickly
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Comfortable in engaging with customers at all levels
- Comfortable dealing with conflict and litigation related to recoveries
- Techno Savvy