Career Objective

As a Legal Professional, I wish to succeed in an environment of growth and excellence and earn a role which provides me with job satisfaction and professional development.

I aim to be employed by a progressive organisation where my skills, experience and expertise in the legal fraternity will be utilized to assist an organisation achieve its goals.

Skills and Experience

●Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)

●Know Your Client (KYC)

●Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

●Legal Compliance

●Contract Reviews

●Contract Drafting

●Commercial Law

●Due Diligence – Contract Reviews and analysis in Mergers and acquisition

●Due Diligence in Forensic investigations

●Artificial Intelligence (AI)

●E Discovery

●Legal research

●Legal Advisory

●Trade Mark Law

Professional Experience

Legal Associate Exigent Group January 2021 to date

High level Drafting, Editing and Reviewing Contractual Agreements, Insurance Policies and Product Disclosure Statements. Identifying any unfair contractual terms in the Agreements based on general Insurance and Business Principles and Remedying such unfair Contractual terms by Editing clauses and drafting new appropriate wording.

Legal Operations Consultant Absa Group November 2019 to October 2020

Performing core financial crime operational procedures for High Risk and PEP customers focusing on specific customer due diligence, Customer Screening and Ongoing Reviews and Customer Exits in compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering Customer Due Diligence Standard (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Know Your Client (KYC). Conducting Enhanced Due Diligence Reviews of Customers including High Risk Customers such as Politically Exposed Persons(PEPs), Reviewing potential Sanctions and political exposure matches identified on Customers, Researching and documenting the outcome of the Reviews.

Attorney ENSafrica February 2018 to October 2019

Conducting Due diligence investigations in mergers and acquisition - Great experience working with the contract analysis tool ‘KIRA” (which includes collecting the contracts and/or documents from the relevant data room, setting up the Due Diligence project on the Kira platform in line with the search criteria required for the due diligence investigation, training of the team members on Kira platform and generating the report at the end of the project), Contract Reviews in Due Diligence investigation (which includes checking for red flags on the contracts and/or merely searching for relevant clauses in the contract). Generally working with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist in legal work.

Conducting forensic due diligence relating to economic crime, i.e. allegations of fraud, corruption and/or irregularities including, document review, research and perform accounting, economic, and financial statement analysis in relation to the target entity; Conducting integrity due diligence reviews using various local and international online public sources and databases on the target entity and its associated entities as well as its directors; Analyse, summarise and draft findings and reports in a clear, logical, and concise manner.

Conducting Lifestyle Audits to ensure that the relevant individual’s lifestyle is in line with his means (which includes Windeed searches to indicate that the relevant individual’s fixed property, employment and credit history, criminal records, directorships as well as its Assets).

Conducting e Discovery Investigations and high level review of electronic documents in civil and litigation cases using the relevant document review software including Relativity and Nuix.

Legal Associate Cognia Law October 2016 to January 2018

Conducting the review and analysis of commercial contracts; High level review of electronic documents in civil and litigation cases using the relevant document review software including Relativity.

Candidate Attorney Vonseidels Intellectual Property Attorneys June 2015 - August 2016

Trade mark searches and filing, trade mark prosecution and litigation both in South Africa and other African Countries. Trade mark renewals, responding to official actions, responding to client enquires, working with PATRICIA software, copyright enforcement and domain name disputes

Legal Assistant Exigent Groups March 2015 - May 2015

High level review of electronic documents in civil and litigation cases using the relevant document review software including Relativity.

Associate ObioraObianwu Chambers (Nigeria) 2005 – 2006

Civil and criminal litigation, commercial law, contracts law, consultation with client, drafting of legal documents; including but not limited to Power of Attorney, contracts, wills, bail applications. General legal advisory role

Attorney Paul Usoro and Associates (Nigeria) 2004 – 2005

Civil and criminal litigation, commercial and contract law, consultation with client, drafting of legal documents; including but not limited to Power of Attorney, contracts, wills, bail applications. General legal advisory role.

Education

●Certificate in Compliance Management January 2018 University of Cape Town

●School for Legal Practice November 2014 University of Cape Town

Passed with Distinction

●Bachelor of Law 2013 University of South Africa

Passed with Cum Laude (Distinction)

●Bachelor of Law 2004 Nigerian Law School, Nigeria

Passed with Second Class Honours

●LLB 2002 Abia State University, Nigeria

Passed with Second Class Honours (Upper Division)

●Senior School Certificate 1996 St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Girls School, Nigeria

Professional Registrations

●Admitted Attorney of The High Court of South Africa 2016

●Barrister and Solicitor of The Supreme Court of Nigeria 2004

●Trade Mark Practitioners - Group One

References

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