About the Role
Don Quester Consulting Limited is a premier management consulting and human capital development organization dedicated to transforming individuals, emerging businesses, and communities across Africa. We are currently seeking an exceptional legal strategist to serve as our Head of Legal (Group General Counsel). In this pivotal leadership role, you will provide comprehensive legal counsel to the Board and executive management, safeguard the organization's commercial interests, and drive high-level corporate governance across all business entities.
Key Responsibilities- Provide pragmatic legal advice to the CEO, Board of Directors, and business leaders regarding complex commercial, legal, and regulatory matters.
- Design and execute the Group's overarching legal strategy while proactively overseeing enterprise-wide legal risk management.
- Ensure stringent corporate governance, statutory compliance, seamless company filings, and efficient corporate secretarial operations.
- Direct the drafting, critical review, negotiation, and lifecycle management of high-value commercial contracts and agreements.
- Lead the legal dimensions of strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing, restructuring, and property acquisitions.
- Manage external legal counsel, litigation, arbitrations, alternative dispute resolution, and regulatory compliance investigations.
- Advise on diverse employment matters, intellectual property portfolios, data protection laws, and strict confidentiality protocols.
- Establish standardized legal procedures, contract templates, approval workflows, and centralized document management systems.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing legal team while effectively managing departmental expenditure and operational processes.
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and active qualification as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
- Possess 12 to 18 years of post-call legal experience, featuring extensive corporate-commercial and in-house practice backgrounds.
- Demonstrate at least 5 to 8 years in a senior leadership capacity, such as Head of Legal, Deputy General Counsel, or equivalent role.
- Extensive hands-on expertise in mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, joint ventures, and complex dispute resolution.
- Comprehensive command of Nigerian company law, contract frameworks, corporate governance codes, employment legislation, and regulatory compliance.
- Possess superior commercial acumen, exceptional negotiation skills, refined analytical abilities, and outstanding executive communication.
- Additional advantages include an LLM, MBA, relevant professional certifications, and prior holding company or multi-entity experience.
- Highly competitive and negotiable compensation package aligned with industry standards.
- Opportunity to shape the strategic trajectory of a diversified business group with continental impact.
- Collaborative, dynamic, and intellectually stimulating executive work environment.