Legal Counsel

**Job Advert Summary**:
Spur Corporation is a growing multi-brand restaurant franchisor, headquartered in Cape Town. The group currently has Ten brands, namely, Spur Steak Ranches, Panarottis Pizza Pasta, John Dory’s Fish Grill Sushi, RocoMamas, The Hussar Grill, Casa Bella, Nikos Coalgrill Greek, Doppio Zero, Modern Tailors and Piza e Vino. In order to retain an exceptional talent pool, the group endeavours to create a great place to work, building a collaborative and innovative performance-based culture which enables each employee to thrive on his or her unique Spur Corporation journey. Spur Corporation’s employees are passionate and purpose-driven people growing great brands. Through their dedicated service and talent, they offer support to the group’s endeavours and operational activities, offering an exceptional return on investment to all its shareholders. A career at Spur Corporation is an opportunity for an employee to nurture, learn, grow, and realise their full potential.

A position has become available in the Legal Department at the Century City Office, Cape Town for a Legal Counsel-Legal & Risk.

This role is primarily focused on law relating to franchising Drafting of commercial agreements (including franchise agreements), legal correspondence and other legal documents for every business area across the organisation, including lease agreements, and company related agreements such as procurement, services, service level agreements and the incumbent will be reporting to the Head of Legal.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Post Graduate Degree
- Have an LLB or equivalent degree.
- A LLM qualification will be advantageous.
- Admission as Attorney / Advocate and subsequent experience in legal practice is advantageous.
- Must have a minimum of at least 2 years (post qualification) exposure to a legal practice or in-house legal department dealing primarily with general commercial work/drafting and vetting of a wide variety of contracts of the nature described above.
- A sound knowledge of legislation impacting the above business lines.
- Experience in High Court Litigation and Intellectual Property will be advantageous.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**RISK AND COMPLIANCE**:

- Providing comprehensive legal risk and compliance guidance, advice and solutions to all division of the SPUR Coporation that enables the execution of operational objectives and decision making which is compliant with all external regualtions.
- Providing legal support to the business of the organisation in South Africa to ensure legal compliance of such businesses.
- Vetting of commercial agreements and other legal documents;
- Draft master agreements for recurring business models so as to standardize key terms and streamline the contract review process.
- Ensure that contracts are of a consistently high quality, practically implementable, substantially fulfils the businesses’ requirements, and are compliant with the relevant legislation.
- Provide advice to all stakeholders across the company’s businesses;
- Assist in negotiations with potential business partners and provide advice to management to ensure that it is aware of the legal impact of its decisions.
- Ensure that the legal advice provided is of a consistently high quality, practically implementable, commercially and legally strategic, and compliant with the relevant legislation.
- Attending to all legal and regulatory aspects of transactions and projects when required, including the briefing and management of external lawyers and the negotiation of the various agreements.
- Providing Corporate Commercial (M & A) transactional legal support to the Head of Legal.
- Advise all stakeholders in SA of potential litigation risks associated with business decisions and business practices.
- Providing assistance all litigation matters in SA by assessing the company's position in disputes and proposing the best possible course of action so as to ensure that the most optimal outcome is achieved.
- Provide guidance to external counsel by comprehensively briefing them, assisting in the development of a defence or action, and attending to settlement negotiations (if appropriate).
- Research and provision of legal opinions
- Assisting business units with advice on legislation and alignment of business processes and contracts in accordance with legislation including Franchise and other relevant Legislation - (Companies Act, Consumer Protection Act etc).
- Legal administration
- Aspects of office administration

**Skills & Competencies**:

- Excellent command of the English language.
- High level of computer proficiency.
- Be keen to develop and grow.
- Be enthusiastic and display a positive attitude.
- Ability to work in a team and independently.
- Perform well under pressure.
- Display a high level of accuracy in his/her work.
- Highly articulate communication ability and good client service orientation.
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