About the position
Our client is seeking a legal advisor to provide legal advisory services and support to the business, by providing effective and efficient 1st line of defense and business assurance support, with accurate and strategically smart commercial/legal advice. In doing so, the function will support and enable the business to ensure that regulatory, commercial and other legal risks are effectively managed, ensuring business sustainability and growth.
Minimum education (essential):
Bachelor of Law Degree (LLB / BCom)
Minimum education (desirable):
Admitted Attorney of the High Court
Minimum applicable experience (years):
Completed articles
4 years
Required nature of experience:
- Drafting of contracts and agreements
- Drafting of legal letters
- Research and drafting of opinions on company matters
- Setup and review of legal templates for agreements like NDA, Contractors and Licensing agreements
- Representation, under supervision of Senior Legal Advisor or Legal & Regulatory Lead with external role players
Skills and Knowledge (essential):
- Commercial law application in a PTY Ltd company
- Compliance to Companies Act (and fiduciary requirements in terms of applicable legislation)
- Industrial Relations
- Contracts and agreements (contract law)
- Excellent English writing skills
- Exposure to international law (especially the United States and the UK)
- Trademark knowledge
- Patent registration knowledge
- POPIA (and other privacy) compliance
Skills and Knowledge (beneficial):
- Contribute innovative ideas to projects.
- Communicate effectively with team members and internal stakeholders, using communications channels appropriately.
- Provide proactive and timeous feedback on status reviews to the issuing party, line manager and top management.
- Disseminate information to relevant employees, training them as necessary on regulatory and legal requirements.
- Support and enable the Company, under supervision of seniors and management to draft policies and procedures.
- Review and update policy wordings and other related documents as requested.
- Draft, review and/or make suggestions on contracts to ensure that the contracts entered into by the Company are accurate and advantageous to the Company.
- Maintain and improve the Company's internal contract template database.
- Maintain, improve review and/or make suggestions for NDAs in line with Company policy, as requested.
- Draft, review and/or make suggestions for contracts in line with Company policy, as requested.
- Assist with revision and initial drafting of supplier agreements or terms, as requested.
- Review customer-facing documents such as sales scripts, marketing assets, external marketing email communication, etc as requested by the Company.
- Review agreements for internal stakeholders as and when requested and provide relevant suggestions.
- Provide appropriate legal advice, interpretation and opinions on contracts, policies and agreements as requested.
- Ensure all legal documents are filed and labeled correctly.
- Maintain the registry of all active agreements.
- Maintain an inventory of all actionable items from active agreements and ensure these are actioned appropriately and on time.
- Monitor agreements and timeously inform relevant parties of action required for renewals, amendments or terminations of agreements.
- Assist with keeping an accurate bank of all expired agreements, NDAs and Confidentiality agreements.
- Monitor changes and conduct research in the commercial and legal spheres within active markets, advising the Company on changes, risks and opportunities and implementing necessary changes.
- Assist and provide support with the legal due diligence process by identifying legal risks and enabling the Company to implement the appropriate controls to mitigate these risks.
- Assist management with 3rd party due diligence requests.
- Assist with the management of outsourced legal services in terms of engagement with external attorneys.
- Assist with communication regarding IP filing and compliance.
- Assist with maintaining Intellectual Property as well as liaising with internal stakeholders and external counsel regarding Intellectual Property matters.
- Assist with US Insurance where requested.
- Maintain the legal register and any other legal documentation / policies in collaboration with the QMS system.
- Assist in the interpretation of identified legislation in terms of compliance to quality standards (ISO13485, CE Certification).
- Assist and implement requirements per legislation in terms of compliance to data and medical record standards (POPI, GDPR, HIPAA).
- Compile and disseminate information to relevant employees, training them as necessary on regulatory and legal requirements.
- Advise on privacy concerns and compliance within active product markets.
- Assist in the setup and maintenance of controls and documentation procedures.
- Perform internal legal review on existing processes, as requested.
Desired Skills:
- Drafting of contracts and agreements
- Drafting of legal letters
- Research and drafting of opinions on company matters
- Setup and review of legal templates for agreements like NDA
- Contractors and Licensing agreements
- Representation
- Commercial law
- Legal Advice
- Insolvency matters
- Legal Issues
- Legal Service
- Contract drafting
- Legal Research
- Legal Opinions
- Commercial Litigation
- Administrative law
- Legal decisions
- Legal Management
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Market law
Desired Work Experience:
- 2 to 5 years Investments, Insurance & Assurance
- 2 to 5 years Legal Advisory
Desired Qualification Level:
