Legal Officer & Company Secretary at Peach Cars KE

Role Description

• Peach is at a positive inflection where we are expanding our operations, and embarking on our next phase of growth. Up until this point, we’ve worked closely with external legal offices to support us with compliance. While we will maintain our external legal support, we now need a representative on the ground at Peach in a full-time capacity.
• The Legal Officer & Company Secretary at Peach will serve as a liaison between our on the ground operations and external legal counsel. This individual will work across departments at Peach Cars – ensuring we are maintaining legal and regulatory compliance and supporting in answering questions as we look to grow our business.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Legal Expertise: Provide expert legal advice and opinions to various departments within the organization on a wide range of issues – including contracts, regulatory compliance, employment matters and corporate transactions.
• Contracts: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating various commercial contracts and agreements and work with our external legal firm where needed.
• Policy Design: Managing and mitigating legal risks by designing and implementing company policies and procedures. Ensuring these policies are checked with our external legal firm to ensure consistency. Additionally, assisting in the development and maintenance of corporate governance policies and practices, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and best practices.
• Compliance. Ensuring company compliance with all laws and regulations that apply to the business plus maintaining and updating the company’s statutory registers, records and filings with relevant authorities. This includes tax compliance – particularly when exploring additional business models. Additionally, staying up to date with changes in legislation that inform changes within the business.
• Secretarial Affairs: Call, chair, and maintain minutes of the annual shareholders meetings. File corporate information with relevant authorities on times to be in compliance with the Companies Act.
• Corporate Governance: Review legal documentation, contracts, etc. as pertains to impacts on Peach Tech Ltd. from actions taken by Cordia Directions and/or taken locally with Peach Cars to grow the business and advance business interests.
• Collaboration with Japanese entities: Collaborate with Japanese external lawyers to  ensure proper legal due diligence as it relates to fundraising, providing needed companydocuments on various regulations or legal requirements. Plus, advise and work closely with the Japanese entity to support them with the distinct Kenyan legal and regulatory laws.

The candidate must:

• Have a Bachelor of Laws degree from a recognized University
• Have a postgraduate diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law
• Be admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with a current Practicing Certificate
• Have a minimum of two years post-admission experience
• Be a certified Company Secretary

Peach Core Values

• Peach Cars is a values-driven organization. If you are interested in this role, please be prepared to speak to the following values, including how you understand them and would put them into practice in your efforts day-to-day.
• Ownership ~ Complete work is the expectation; going above and beyond is who we are and what we do
• Respect ~ Communication is key and this is always done in a respectful manner, no matter how difficult; as a team, we may disagree but we commit
• Challenge ~ As a company, we are anti comfort zones; Peach is a place for learning and growth

Please write to [email protected] with the title, “Legal Officer & Company Secretary_Your Name” with an attached CV.