Legal Manager & Group Secretary
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Afrihood Development Company is hiring a Legal Manager & Group Secretary in Lagos to serve as the principal in-house legal and governance officer. The role covers board secretariat duties, corporate governance, and legal structuring of property acquisitions, joint ventures, and project SPVs. It is suited to a commercially minded lawyer who can support transactions, risk management, and capital-raising across the group.
- Senior in-house legal and governance role reporting to the Board and executive leadership
- Covers board secretariat, statutory records, and governance across subsidiaries and SPVs
- Leads legal structuring of property acquisitions, joint ventures, and project transactions
- Based in Lagos with group-wide responsibilities across Nigeria
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Job Title: Legal Manager & Group Secretary
Legal Manager & Group Secretary at Afrihood Development Company
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Sep 21, 2026, 9:10 AM
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Afrihood is a Lagos Based Real Estate Development Company established to provide realistic estate solutions particularly to the middle class. We are poised to give every African regardless of class, a sense of dignity through luxury and enhanced living style.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: : Lagos
The Role
The Legal Manager & Group Company Secretary will serve as the principal in-house legal and governance officer of Afrihood Nigeria, supporting the Board, executive leadership, operating companies and project SPVs.
This is not simply a company-secretarial or documentation role.
The role requires someone who understands both law and business — a commercially minded lawyer who can structure transactions, identify risks, negotiate effectively and help management find legally sound ways to get deals done.
The successful candidate will be responsible for protecting Afrihood's legal interests while creating the structures that allow the company to transact, raise capital, develop projects and scale efficiently across Nigeria.
Key Responsibilities
- Corporate Governance & Board Secretariat:
- Ensure appropriate approvals, delegated authorities and reserved matters are observed across the Group.
- Advise the Board and management on corporate governance
Requirements
- and directors' responsibilities.
- Maintain statutory registers, corporate records and governance documentation.
- Maintain consistent governance standards across Afrihood Nigeria, its subsidiaries and project SPVs.
- Serve as Secretary to the Afrihood Nigeria Board and its committees.
- Coordinate Board and committee meetings, agendas, papers, minutes, resolutions and action trackers.
- Coordinate the appointment and onboarding of directors and senior governance officers.
- Transactions & Project Structuring
- Lead the legal structuring and documentation of property acquisitions, development transactions and joint ventures.
- Support the establishment and governance of project SPVs and other investment structures.
- Work closely with investment, finance, property and project teams from transaction origination through financial close and execution.
- Develop standard legal structures and documentation that can be efficiently deployed across Afrihood's Project CEO network.
- Conduct and coordinate legal due diligence on land, projects, counterparties and transactions.
- Draft, review and negotiate land acquisition agreements, JV agreements, development agreements, leases, sales documentation and other commercial contracts.
- Finance & Investment:
- Coordinate transaction documentation with financiers, investors, trustees, external counsel and other professional advisers.
- Review and negotiate facility agreements, security documents, guarantees, trust arrangements, escrow structures and investment agreements.
- Ensure financing obligations, conditions precedent, covenants and security
- are properly documented, tracked and managed.
- Support the legal structuring of capital deployed across Afrihood's Nigerian project portfolio.
- Support institutional debt, private capital, project finance and investment transactions.
- Property, Title & Development:
- Identify title, encumbrance, contractual and development risks before Afrihood commits capital to projects.
- Establish standard legal frameworks and documentation for projects originated through Afrihood's Project CEO network.
- Oversee title verification, perfection, registration and other property-related legal processes.
- Coordinate land documentation and relevant government interfaces.
- Coordinate external property lawyers, surveyors and other professional advisers where required.
- Maintain proper legal records for Afrihood's property and development portfolio.
- Group Legal & Regulatory Compliance:
- Manage disputes, claims, litigation and external counsel where required.
- Develop legal policies, contract standards, approval processes and documentation templates.
- Maintain a Group-wide legal and compliance calendar.
- Manage corporate and regulatory compliance across Afrihood Nigeria and its subsidiaries/SPVs.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting Afrihood's Nigerian operations.
- Maintain a central repository of material contracts, corporate documents, titles, financing documentation and legal records.
- Protect Afrihood's intellectual property, contractual rights and commercial interests.
- Coordinate statutory filings and relationships with relevant regulators and government agencies.
- Legal Architecture & Institutional Development:
- Standardise key agreements, approval processes and legal documentation across the Afrihood platform.
- Work with management to ensure new projects enter the Afrihood portfolio through properly structured legal and investment processes.
- Help ensure that Afrihood's growth does not result in disconnected projects or entities, but remains governed as one disciplined Nigerian development institution.
- Build a legal and governance framework capable of supporting multiple developments and project companies across Nigeria.
- Establish clear legal relationships between Afrihood Nigeria, its subsidiaries, project SPVs and Project CEOs.
- Who We Are Looking For:
- We are looking for a commercially intelligent lawyer and institution builder with approximately 5–10 years of post-call experience, including meaningful
Experience
in corporate/commercial law, real estate, transactions, investment, project finance or infrastructure.
The ideal candidate should demonstrate
in several of the following:
Real estate development and property law.
Regulatory compliance and corporate restructuring.
working within a real estate developer, infrastructure company, investment firm, financial institution or leading commercial law firm will be particularly valuable.
Project finance, institutional financing or secured lending transactions.
Joint ventures, acquisitions and investment structures.
Corporate governance and company secretarial practice.
Contract drafting and negotiation.
Legal due diligence and transaction management.
Corporate and commercial transactions.
Working with senior executives, investors, financial institutions and external counsel.
Board and committee administration.
The Person:
You should be intellectually rigorous but commercially practical.
You should be comfortable moving between a Board meeting, a financing transaction, a land acquisition, a Project CEO agreement and a regulatory issue without losing attention to detail.
We are particularly interested in someone who wants to build the legal and governance architecture of an institution, rather than simply manage an existing legal department.
You understand that the role of an excellent in-house lawyer is not merely to identify why something cannot be done, but to understand the commercial objective, identify the risks and help structure a responsible way to achieve it.
You must possess exceptional integrity, discretion and judgement. You will have access to some of Afrihood's most sensitive corporate, financial, investment and Board information.
with project finance, institutional investment, complex property transactions or multi-entity corporate structures will also be an advantage.
Success in This Role:
Success will be measured by Afrihood's ability to transact confidently, protect its interests, maintain strong governance, close transactions efficiently, manage legal risk and scale its Nigerian project portfolio without losing institutional control.
The successful candidate should ultimately build a legal and governance function capable of supporting Afrihood Nigeria as it grows into a substantial multi-project development institution.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:
hr@afrihood.com
using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
An updated CV.
A brief cover note explaining why you are suited to building Afrihood Nigeria's legal and governance function.
A summary of three significant transactions, legal matters or corporate initiatives you have personally led or played a major role in, stating your specific responsibility and outcome.
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Qualifications
- Strong understanding of Nigerian company and property law.
- Demonstrable understanding of corporate governance and Board processes.
- Membership of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) or another relevant governance/professional qualification will be a strong advantage.
- LL.B and B.L; must be qualified to practise law in Nigeria.
- 5–10 years post-call experience.
- Strong corporate/commercial and transactional experience.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation and analytical skills.