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Legal Counsel

1 month ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Puma Energy Full time

Main Purpose:
Involving varied legal work, the role is focused on the provision of general legal and contractual support for the Company’s Businesses in the Africa region, taking a commercial and pragmatic approach and ensuring effective management of legal risk.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a variety of commercial contracts which may include: Joint Ventures, documentation associated with M&A’s, disposals, documentation associated with various renewable projects and on occasion general agreements such as master service agreements, statements of work, consultancy contracts, IT agreements, loan agreements, discount receivable agreements, inter-group financing arrangements, and supply agreements;
- Supporting the General Counsel and the Head of Africa Legal on Regional projects as needed;
- Managing contentious matters including Litigation, Arbitration and Mediations
- identifying other opportunities for innovation and process improvement to increase overall efficiency of the legal function;
- Keeping abreast of relevant legal and regulatory developments and facilitating sharing of knowledge and best-practice within wider legal team and more widely as relevant;
- Providing day-to-day legal advice.

**REQUIREMENTS**:
**Experience**:

- Qualified lawyer having passed a reputable board or bar examination.
- Minimum of 5-8 years’ post qualification experience gained at a high-quality law firm and/or multinational company. Strong preference for solid law firm experience. Previous in-house experience in an international company of advantage.
- Experience Petrochemical, energy, commodities, retail (specifically in downstream) and / or mining industry as well as renewable energy experience.
- Experience working in an international environment and matrix organisations.
- French/Portuguese language skills would be an advantage.

**Skills**:

- Strong business mindset and problem-solving attitude, with strong aptitudes to identify and foster pragmatic approaches
- Ability to handle complex situations and transactions with little or no supervision
- Ability to influence and persuade key stakeholders, shareholder representatives and senior counterparties

Key Relationships and Department Overview:
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Internal -Finance, Compliance, Company Secretarial, Tax, HR, HSSE, General Managers and various business areas
- External -law firms, regulatory authorities