Senwes is currently seeking the services of a Senior Legal Advisor to provide commercial legal commercial advice/draft range of documents/ deal management, ensure compliance and manage legal commercial risks.
Provide legal advice and deal management
- Consult with clients to determine nature of advice required
- Evaluate facts and apply to legal position
- Advise accordingly
- Deal management/project management
- Analyse the commercial aspects of the transactions.
- Ensure agreements and documents are legally accurate and mitigate commercial risks
- Ensure agreements/documents are compliant with latest legal developments.
- Consult regularly with team on proposed structures, developments and legal implications thereof.
- Manage merger applications. (Competition law)
- Ensure deals are properly executed.
Draft and verify complex commercial contracts/agreements/due diligence investigations
- Attend due diligence assessments relating to company's acquisitions.
- Perform legal due diligence assessment on deals.
- Establish the nature of agreement required.
- Draft, vet and negotiate a range of complex commercial agreements and documents e.g. MOU’s, term sheets, M&A agreements, sale of shares, sale of business, security documents prospectuses, notices etc.
- Verify final draft and discuss with client.
- Advise on execution and provide guidelines.
- Evaluate existing agreements and propose changes.
- Approve final contracts/ agreements for signatures.
- Ensure application and compliance to Governance and legislative requirements.
Negotiation and settlement of commercial disputes
- Attend to resolution of disputes by means of mediation, arbitration of litigation
- Draft settlement agreements.
- Ensure implementation.
Provide commercial litigation services
- Comprehensive preparation and evaluation of litigation/claims/applications.
- Instruct attorneys to take appropriate legal action.
- Manage process and ensure compliance to legal procedure.
- Legal cost budget management.
- Monitor and evaluate legal accounts and advise accordingly.
Ensure legal and procedural compliance
- Identify and research relevant legislation.
- Advise on requirements for laws.
- Prepare, execute and monitor compliance specific programme.
- Report to and liaise with regulators.
- Training of role players.
- Ensure that relevant policies and procedures are in line with legislation.
Qualifications: BCom Law/ LLB /Admitted Attorney. Candidates with experience as a practicing conveyancer and notary will enjoy preference.
Requirements: 8 years in legal specialised commercial practice/commercial in-house counsel environment. Excellent drafting and writing skills are essential.
Candidates drafting skills and knowledge shall be practically tested during the interview process.
Closing date: 10 January 2025.
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- We are committed to transformation through the appointment of persons from designated groups and potential candidates from these groups will enjoy preference.
- Kindly note that a consumer credit record will be requested in respect of all appointments which involve dealing with cash or finances.
- Should we not have contacted you within six weeks of the closing date, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
