Paralegal Specialist at AECI Limited

Job Description    

• Drafting of standard agreements and compiling legal templates, trademark and patent renewals
• Compiling and maintaining a contracts precedent database
• Providing assistance to legal counsels on matters of research, corporate verification, and legal templates
• Providing standard legal opinions
• Maintaining a Group legal risk register
• Compliance officer for Group Secretariat
• Assist with the updating of all local and foreign statutory records
• Maintain an updated organogram of the Group’s legal entities
• Assist the Board Support manager with taking minutes of Board and Committees
• Update Board and divisional board minute books
• Provide ad-hoc governance support as and when required.
• Organise, prepare agendas and attend meetings, take and distribute minutes, formulate decision matrixes and attend to action plans.
• Deal with correspondence, collating information and writing reports to ensure that decisions made are communicated to the relevant stakeholders.
• Understand the interrelations of all AECI companies and regions
• Assist the Group Co & General Counsel with legal and corporate statutory support i.e. organizing corporate calendars, and meetings, scheduling Legal department meetings

Qualifications & Experience    

• Legal degree
• 5-8 years work experience in an established large law firm
• Computer literacy essential
• Working knowledge of the corporate process is important