Senior Legal Counsel

portal.tz

Mauritius
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Strategic legal advisory
Transactional support
Legal risk management
** The Senior Legal Counsel position at portal.tz involves providing strategic legal advisory and transactional support for the Indian Ocean Corporate & Investment Banking division. The ideal candidate will have extensive legal experience in banking and finance law, with a focus on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. **

Job Summary

  • To provide strategic legal advisory and transactional support to the Indian Ocean Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) division, ensuring legal risk is proactively managed while enabling the execution of vanilla and complex domestic and cross-border financial transactions.
  • This role also involves identifying and managing legal risks across Absa Mauritius and Seychelles by providing end-to-end legal counsel on complex CIB products and transactions, including real estate finance, syndicated lending, capital markets, trade finance, and derivatives.
  • The job holder is responsible for supporting the Head of Legal (Indian Ocean) in the provision of legal advice to Business Units in Mauritius and Seychelles.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 75

** The Senior Legal Counsel position at portal.tz involves providing strategic legal advisory and transactional support for the Indian Ocean Corporate & Investment Banking division. The ideal candidate will have extensive legal experience in banking and finance law, with a focus on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • strategic legal advisory
  • transactional support
  • legal risk management
  • financial transactions
  • legal counsel on CIB products

Nice-to-have

  • commercial advice
  • risk mitigation strategies
  • training to Business Units
  • sharing know-how and experience

Key Requirements

  • At least 10 years' post qualifying experience
  • Extensive knowledge of Banking and finance law
  • Extensive knowledge of Commercial law
  • Extensive knowledge of law of Contracts
  • Qualified Lawyer - Admitted Attorney or Barrister

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