Legal Counsel (Lagos, Nigeria)
Sun King
Legal
Nigeria
Posted on Oct 14, 2024
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
About the Role:
Sun King is looking for a Legal Counsel who will manage legal strategy, ensure compliance, oversee legal transactions, and handle partnerships and projects. The ideal candidate will oversee various corporate legal processes, including mergers, compliance matters, transactions, partnerships, and legal due diligence. Success in this role requires exceptional negotiation abilities and strong people skills.
About the Role:
Sun King is looking for a Legal Counsel who will manage legal strategy, ensure compliance, oversee legal transactions, and handle partnerships and projects. The ideal candidate will oversee various corporate legal processes, including mergers, compliance matters, transactions, partnerships, and legal due diligence. Success in this role requires exceptional negotiation abilities and strong people skills.
- Department
- Finance & Legal
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Nigeria
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Senior Manager, Legal
What you would be expected to do
1. Legal Strategy and Compliance
- Participate and contribute to cross functional projects and initiatives to minimize legal risks and ensure achievement of the business goals.
- Develop risk mitigation strategies and implement preventive measures.
- Ensure the organization complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
- Monitor changes in legislation and regulations, adapting the company’s policies and procedures accordingly.
2. Fundraising – Negotiations and Documentation
- Handle legal due diligence by investors and their advisors.
- Ensure completion of all conditions related to funding (both pre-and-post) in a timely manner and handle periodic reporting/compliances related to legal.
- Develop standard templates used frequently in fundraising, like NDAs, term sheets, ESG policy matters, standards disclosures, etc.
3. Intellectual Property
- Register, protect, and manage the company’s intellectual property rights, including trademarks, patents, and copyrights
- Handle proprietary property disputes and licensing arrangements.
4. Contract Management and standardization – Customers, Suppliers, and Service Providers
- Oversee the drafting, review, and negotiation of contracts, and legal documents
- Provide guidance on contract terms and ensure that they are in the company’s best interest.
- Ensure any and all obligations with respect to ESG are reflected in customer and supplier contracts to the extent applicable.
- Manage contract disputes and resolutions as necessary.
5. Litigation and Dispute Resolution (including Tax and HR)
- Manage and oversee litigation and legal proceedings involving the company.
- Work with external legal counsel when necessary.
- Seek cost-effective solutions and negotiate settlements where possible.
6. Corporate Governance
- Ensure that the company operates in compliance with corporate governance Standards.
7. Regulatory Affairs
- Maintain knowledge of industry-specific regulations and compliance requirements.
- Establish relationships with relevant regulatory agencies and oversee regulatory submissions as needed.
8. Networking & Administrative functions
- Create and develop a roster of preferred attorneys and law firms across geographies for various activities listed above.
- Provide legal advice and guidance to various departments within the company
- Develop and deliver legal training and education programs to enhance legal awareness throughout the organization.
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in legal practice, with significant experience in corporate and litigation background.
- Bachelor of law degree from a reputable institution.
- Significant experience/exposure to dealing with legal enforcement authorities and regulatory bodies.
- Sound critical thinking, problem-solving, and problem resolution abilities.
- Familiarity with fundraising documentation standards like NVCA, LMA, etc.
- Strong evaluative, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and people skills.
What Sun King Offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
