Junior Legal Associate - Craighall at Spartan

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