Legal Manager Job Johannesburg area,South Africa,Law/Legal

Legal Counsel Manager

Job Purpose

Responsible for driving legal projects and activities relating to the General Counsel’s Office function, servicing South Africa and assisting the General Counsel with servicing Africa - with special emphasis on drafting, reviewing and negotiating various contracts and providing internal legal advice to other teams across service lines while adhering to EY’s internal policies (both locally and internationally). Negotiating of software license agreements part of scope.

This role will also be responsible to maintenance and updating of al templates across Africa.

The candidate will report to the General Counsel, Africa Region.

Duties and responsibilities will include the following:

General Counsel Office (GCO):

The Commercial Lawyer (Manager) will assist the GCO with the following tasks across the Africa Region of EY, and across all service lines in the EY Africa Region with an initial focus on the Tax Service Line -

General - Drafting and negotiating various agreements across audit and advisory service lines, including global framework agreements, local implementation agreements, service level agreements, technology agreements, intellectual property agreements, procurement agreements, confidentiality agreements and data usage agreements.

Ability to advise leadership team and engagement teams on all current commercial contracts (eg. Structuring, development of templates);

Reviewing and contributing to drafting firm policies including authority and delegation’s framework

Supporting the Assurance service line on all legal matters

Acquisitions – current legal work on local acquisitions including working with external counsel on deal structure and acquisition agreements, coordination with other members of Legal for cross-border acquisitions

Corporate law – Advise regional cluster leader and manage co-sec legal compliance work on all legal entities

Litigation – Coordination of litigation matters in close relationship with Africa Regional General Counsel and relevant Quality Service Line Leader (including risks and prospects analysis and briefing external legal counsel);

Providing advice to business units on potential claims as well as forming part of special ad hoc panels to manage the risk of potential claims

Providing input/reporting to legal risk committee

Assist the GCO in the rendering services of the following to the service lines:

Reviewing and negotiating Engagement letters suggested clients changes to of amendments to EY’s standard terms and conditions,

Terms of Business, Reviewing, negotiating and drafting various agreements across various service lines (including Advisory, Tax, Transactions, and Assurance) including but not limited to – Hold harmless letters,

Confidentiality and Request for Tenders, Bid submissions or Request for Proposal,

Reviewing various agreements inclusive of the following type of agreements:

Sponsorship Agreements

Non-disclosure agreements

Service level agreements

Global framework agreements

Responses to requests for proposals/bids

Teaming agreements

Consortium agreements

Subcontractor agreements

Service provider Agreement

Secondment Agreements

Memorandum of Understanding

Any other bespoke agreement required by the service lines

Consider the legal risks in the agreements inclusive of Limitation of Liability – request to exceed normal limit

Provision of internal legal opinions to as requested by the service lines or the General Counsel

negotiation, drafting/reviewing of agreements and other legal documentation

Assistance dealing with managing disputes and litigation matters(commercial), and compliance,

legislative and regulatory requirements as requested by the General Counsel

Consultations and drafting of all types of contracts and agreements but specifically those in respect of business relationships, consortia, subcontracting arrangements, alliances and secondments

Dealing with subpoenas and claims brought against the firm

Manage the Master Template Database of contract and other legal precedents

Assist in the maintenance of a register of legal work done

Assist in the maintenance of register of deviations from standard contract terms

Drafting and research for legal…


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