Legal Counsel

**Job Advert Summary**:
Spur Corporation is a growing multi-brand restaurant franchisor, headquartered in Cape Town. The group currently has eight brands, namely, Spur Steak Ranches, Spur Grill & Go, Panarottis Pizza Pasta, John Dory’s Fish Grill Sushi, RocoMamas, The Hussar Grill, Casa Bella and Nikos Coalgrill Greek. 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 Head Office, Cape Town for a Legal Counsel.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Have an LLB or equivalent degree.
- 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
- A LLM qualification will be advantageous.
- Experience in High Court Litigation and Intellectual Property will be advantageous.
- 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.
- Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail, logical thought processes and sound

judgment and decision-making abilities.
- Be innovative.
- Maintain confidentiality of all information both from internal and external sources.
- Be reliable, have integrity and display a professional approach.
- Excellent organisational, planning and prioritising skills.
**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- 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;
- Drafting of commercial 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 and outsourcing

agreements, information technology related agreements, sponsorship and marketing agreements, reviewing of marketing materials and distribution agreements;
- Draft master agreements for recurring business models so as to standardize key terms and streamline the contract review process, including Franchise Agreements.
- 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;
- Assist with legal risk management by ensuring that robust compliance processes are implemented across the organisation in order to ensure that the organisation’s statutory obligatio