Job category: Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking Contract: Fixed Term Contract Remuneration: Market Related EE position: Yes Introduction The National Empowerment Fund is looking for a Senior Legal Advisor - Litigation who will join our Legal Services team on a fixed-term contract. The purpose of this role is to provide sound legal support to post-investment monitoring of investments where there are emerging defaults on loan servicing. Active involvement in deal re-structuring, understand and analyse the commercial aspects of the transaction and give expert legal solutions. To provide sound legal support to post-investment monitoring of investment where there are emerging defaults on loan servicing. Active involvement in deal re-structuring, understand and analyse the commercial aspects of the transaction and give expert legal solutions.To provide prompt and sound legal advice and support to the NEF in particular the Post Investment Department & Turnaround, Workouts and Restructuring department, Recoveries To provide legal input to submissions on existing investments prepared for the Portfolio Management Committee and other committees where relevant,Implement Committee decisions to recover monies, ensure rights of NEF are protected,Negotiate settlements,Brief external attorneys,To implement and monitor debt recovery, litigation, liquidation and all other legal and Court processes, whether or not outsourced to external law firms. Turnarounds, Workouts, Restructures Business rescue, restructuring.Understand instruments, draft agreements, litigate, sequestrate.Criminal charges.To implement the restructuring of companies, draft and review all legal agreements relating thereto,Manage budgets and relationships with external lawyers, timeously.To address all legal matters relating to the NEF and its investee companies, implement amendments to funding structures and terms and negotiation of contracts with investee companies or third parties,Provide general legal advice to the NEF’s various departments, Qualifications LLBAdmitted Attorney Experience/Skills required At least 8 years’ experience post articles experience in similar environment i.e. Private equity, Corporate finance, Corporate Finance Management Consulting etc.At least 8 years litigation, business rescue and Court experience,Experience in securities law; and/orExperience in insolvency law; and/orGeneral experience in commercial law; and/orProven working knowledge of Company law, Tax law and NCRBusiness report writingMS Office suite knowledgeExperience in Turnarounds, Workouts and Restructuring is advantageousProfessional and courteous to all clients (internal and external),Accuracy in preparing legal documentation,Ability to advice on legal issues related to NEF business,Ability to convey legal opinion and argue legally.High leadership qualities and teamwork,Strong sense of initiative and self-motivated,High sense of analysis, attention to detail and judgement, By clicking on the above you are agreeing to this site's Terms of Use .Read our full Data Protection Policy here . To ensure safe access to your data, your password needs to meet the below minimum requirements:Minimum of 6 characters longMinimum of 1 numeric character (0 - 9)Minimum of 1 lowercase character (a - z)Minimum of 1 uppercase character (A - Z)Minimum of 1 special character, for example @!?#$%... Will be used for account recovery in the case that you no longer have access to the supplied email address. CV file * We will parse your CV to make creating a profile as easy as possible#J-18808-Ljbffr