Investment Legal Advisor
5 days ago
Our client, a large investment business leader, offers a wide range of investment and financial planning solutions to protect and grow your long-term wealth. Their investment options include passively and actively manage unit trusts, hedge funds and segregated and pooled retirement funds.
**Purpose of the role**:
**Key responsibilities**:
- Review various transactional agreements to be entered into, by the Teams
- Keeping the Teams up to date with changes in the statutory and common law as far as it relates to the business conducted by the Teams
- Manage the transactional legal risk for the Teams and ensure that the necessary legal support is offered to the business
- Accountable for overseeing and monitoring the legal aspects of the business conducted by the Teams to protect the Teams’ interest and support the Teams’ business strategy
- Assist in the negotiation of investment transactions and offer legal advice on the structuring of transactions across the Teams
- Ensure proper implementation of transactions in accordance with the various investment committee approvals
- Provide strategic guidance to the Teams on all legal and compliance matters
- Interact with other legal functions to efficiently manage processes and transactions
- Managing matters outsourced to external legal firms
- Managing the Properties Litigation portfolio (Landlord Tenant matters as well as specific matters)
- Interact with Risk and Compliance to ensure that investments are managed per mandate and within the regulatory framework
- Report to the relevant risk committees
- Attend to relevant committees
**Minimum requirements**:
- LLB Degree
- Admission as an Attorney of the High Court
- 3 - 5 years relevant experience in a Legal role at a comparable Property, Investment and/or Financial Institution
**Technical competencies**:
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- Proven commercial law experience, in particular in the following areas:
- Loan Market Association documentation suite
- ISDA and CSA documentation suite
- En commandite partnership structure documentation suite
- Private debt (secured and unsecured) documentation suite
- Private equity (acquisition and disposal) documentation suite
- Property law
- Preference share structures (secured and unsecured)
- Knowledge of the following acts and all subordinate legislation issued thereunder would be an advantage:
- National Credit Act
- Financial Advisor and Intermediary Services Act
- Financial Markets Act
- Collective Investment Schemes Control Act
- Pension Funds Act
- Insurance Act
- Currency and Exchanges Act
- Working knowledge of income tax law
- Strong commercial law experience including drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts
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