Legal Executive

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Description

Accountable for analyzing and identifying the legal risks and implications of all of the business's transactions, keeping the senior management in all departments and relevant stakeholders informed of developments in laws and regulations that potentially affect the business. Provide specialist legal advice on legal disputes and litigation matters to ensure legal soundness of operations and effective execution of commercial transactions across the business.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice to business on various legal and technical matters in line with legal framework and best practice
• Manage litigation related matters to enable a consistent approach and mitigate risk
• Provide the business executive leadership with a view of legal issues and status of risks and provide expert opinion on any matters arising from this forum
• Ensure that all legal execution documents are executed in accordance with relevant industry legislation and requirements
• Provide legal advice to all stakeholders on any corporate legal related matters to ensure soundness of commercial operations enabling business to achieve its objectives

Qualifications

• Relevant Legal degree (B Com, BA, B Juris or B Proc) Master of Law (LLM)
• Admitted attorney or advocate in South Africa
• Post graduate qualification preferred
• At least 8-10 years’ post admission experience in managing corporate law
• Solid compliance and corporate commercial experience preferably from a law firm
• Demonstrable experience in merger and acquisition processes
• Solid experience in insurance industry specifically short term and life insurance
• At least 10 years leadership experience of which a minimum of 5 years must be at senior management level

Application instructions:

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