Job Position: Legal Advisor
Ref: 4018
Location: Port Elizabeth (Markman)
Salary: R30 000 per month commensurate with experience and qualification
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Qualifications / Requirements:
- Relevant Degree
- Minimum of 3 years legal experience
- Knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications
- Knowledge and experience with Lexis WinDeed and Lexis Nexis
- Energetic, independent, self-motivated and a hands-on person
- Good team player with a positive mindset
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure and multitask
- Time and priority management skills
Key performance Areas:
- Drafting and negotiate contracts:
- From consultant contracts to collaboration agreements
- Must be familiar with drawing up and arranging terms of various types of contracts
- Reviewing existing contracts and creating new documents
- Ensure compliance with corporate laws::
- Well-versed in corporate law and review all company practices and processes to ensure that the company is working within all legal limits
- Understand all legal regulations pertaining to the specific business
- Budget and financial management:
- Verify invoices submitted by attorneys, counsel and other external service providers and ensure that legal fees do not exceed agreed parameters
- Load and track legal expenses electronically
- Professional service delivery:
- Negotiate, draft, review and vet contracts to meet requirements and ensure that these are aligned with corporate governance precepts - disclosure, transparency, risk management
- Provide strategic legal advice, negotiate legal agreements and draft the relevant legal documents for corporate finance transactions
- Oversee and manage corporate finance legal transactions
- Oversee, manage, control and perform the legal due diligence process for corporate finance transactions
- Assist with the implementation of corporate finance transactions
- Identify the impact of changes in legislation, regulations and codes of practice on internal legal processes and policies
- Proactively review applicable legislation and case law and remain up to date with legal trends
- Analyze company policies and, where applicable, provide solutions that will ensure compliance with legislation and business imperatives
- Monitoring the implementation of the legal clause
- Stakeholder relationship building, networking and management
