Brickstone Africa Recruitment for Legal and Corporate Development Intern

Brickstone Africa is an Infrastructure Accelerator with strong competencies in the Appraisal, Advisory and Project Development of large scale industrial; and also infrastructure projects in Africa. Brickstone’s early-stage project development competencies apply throughout the entire process of developing capital-intensive projects; but with the objective of ensuring profitability and protect its long-term asset value for sponsors.

Femi Awofala founded Brickstone Africa in 2009  as a Real Estate Advisory firm but have evolved into becoming an early-stage infrastructure accelerator in conjunction with a team of professionals having vast commercial and financial management experience range from sourcing, developing, closing and delivering equity, project/ corporate finance and other contractual structures across major infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Legal and Corporate Development Intern

Job Location: Lagos
Probation Period: 1 month

Job Description

• If you are Law Graduate currently (Pre-NYSC, NYSC or Post NYSC)  looking for a career in a high-energy, that  challenges you to shape your own career path outside the courtrooms, then we want to hear from you!

Main Aspects of the Job
Legal and Corporate Development:
You would work in a team where you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, both in the context of transaction origination and deal execution. Your activities include:

• Market scanning to identify potential changes in the competitive landscape or overall market trends
• Review transaction documentation (memorandums, financials, legal documentation)
• Summarize and communicate your findings and conclusions to the project team
• Reviewing contracts, policies, and procedures.
• Legal research and writing.
• Organizing and filing contracts.

Project Presentations:
You would work in a team where your role will include:

• Developing project research documentation for Powerpoint Slides. Every presentation you work on is different both in content and form.
• You will be exposed to Projects in every Brickstone Practice Areas
• You would be required to create interesting information researched content, flow charts and optimizing visuals/frameworks to convey the message, to complex data analysis charts and communication ideation to our clients.

Corporate Communications:
You would work in a team where your role will include:

• Help team in creating content for press releases, newsletters and other marketing initiatives in line with the tonality of the communication practices followed by our company.
• Come up with ideas for all communication across channels
• Responsibly leverage social media platforms with appropriate tagging and help scale social media presence
• A good understanding and interest about social media channels and best practice

Probation

• There would be a probation period of One (1) month, upon conclusion of the probation.

Requirements
Technical Skills:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Law.
• 0 - 2 years of relevant legal experience post Law School (NYSC Corpers are strongly encouraged to apply).
• Familiarity with Project Management and investment regulation and project finance transactions.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to learn new concepts quickly, Working with minimal supervision, Strong team skills
• Well-presented with good interpersonal skills.

Payroll Consideration

• Interns would be given a Stipend of NGN75,000 per month for an initial period of Two (2) or Three (3) months.