Legal Advisor

4 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Sunbet Full time

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To responsibility, proactively and efficiently facilitate the business of Sunbet by efficiently reviewing, drafting and negotiating business contracts and providing legal advice to various Sunbet management teams to ensure that the legal agreements, matters and advice in relation to the Company's dealings with external business partners are legal and comply with Sun International's Group policies and procedures in a manner which fully protects the businesses legal and commercial interests. Identify, manage, mitigate, and provide recommendations against all associated legal risks and escalates some to the Senior Legal Advisor for assessment.

Job Scope:

  • Acting as an enabler and facilitator to support and oversee the contracting process as executed by the departmental contracting champions via the contracting management system and provide contract support for internal stakeholders to obtain business objectives across the business area functions within areas of responsibility.
  • Assist with drafting and revision of templates (inclusive of contracts, due diligence, and scoping related documents), and Sunbet policies, standard operating procedures and related governance documents to reflect current legal trends and amendments to business requirements, legislation, and mitigation of legal risks identified.
  • Any risk identified per the above is reported and escalated to the Senior Legal Advisor and where appropriate and required to the Exco team under supervision.
  • Research, keep up to date with, analyse and investigate case law and legislation relating to corporate, commercial, company, sports betting and contract law relative to legal concern and structure proposed remedies and provide solutions to legal issues identified and escalated to the Senior Legal Advisor.
  • Drafts legal documents checklists, scoping documents, contracts, correspondence, undertakings, opinions (written, verbal, formal and/or informal), memoranda, and other briefing documents as required by business including as it pertains to operational contracts, due diligence investigations, structuring and closure of transactions, all of which are required to be valid, aligned to business requirements, and the Company's legal and commercial interests in line with the Sun International Group's policies and procedures.
  • Assist with the preparation for and attend attorney meetings in terms of contract negotiations and assist with guiding management on taking appropriate decisions with the assistance of the Senior Legal Advisor across the multiple business areas within its areas of responsibility.
  • Ability to produce consistent high-quality work under pressure whilst maintaining efficient turnaround times that is relevant, understood and easily applied within the business environment, and understands and is able to impart knowledge on relevant legal issues and subject matters at all levels within the business.
  • Responsible for the coordination, facilitation and management of legal document management pertaining to mergers and acquisition matters, including in respect of compiling, of and coordination of due diligence requests and virtual dataroom management.
  • Cultivate and manage working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of the Sun International group.
  • Contribute towards the Central Legal report submitted to the executive committee meetings.
  • Provide legal training and development in terms of gaps identified to business, and provide knowledge transfer to junior team members.

Qualification:

  • LLB Degree and Admitted as an Attorney

Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years post-articles qualification in a law firm or corporate legal advising position, including corporate legal advising, managing relationships with business partners, exposure and experience in contract, company, and commercial law, and ability to effectively and efficiently manage multiple complex tasks with extensive consistent experience in independent contract drafting and negotiation.
  • Experience in mergers and acquisitions would be an advantage.
Seniority level
  • Associate
Employment type
  • Full-time
Job function
  • Legal, General Business, and Research
  • Industries
  • Gambling Facilities and Casinos
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