Legal Associate

Company in Johannesburg is looking for a Legal Associate to join their team.

Experience required:

• Commercial Litigation experience
• LLB degree
• Admitted as an Attorney
• Minimum 3 years post admission experience

Responsibilities:

• 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 of deals
• Ensuring compliance with all other conditions of a deal prior to disbursing funds on a deal
• Project managing commercial recovery matters internally and in conjunction with external legal advisors (from initiating action legal action to full receipt of funds)
• 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
• Draft 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 analyst operations and clients providing legal expertise to the Credit Committee
• Draft documentation including regulatory required documents nonstandard 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

Company in Johannesburg is looking for a Legal Associate to join their team.

Experience required:

• Commercial Litigation experience
• LLB degree
• Admitted as an Attorney
• Minimum 3 years post admission experience

Responsibilities:

• 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 of deals
• Ensuring compliance with all other conditions of a deal prior to disbursing funds on a deal
• Project managing commercial recovery matters internally and in conjunction with external legal advisors (from initiating action legal action to full receipt of funds)
• 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
• Draft 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 analyst operations and clients providing legal expertise to the Credit Committee
• Draft documentation including regulatory required documents nonstandard 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

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