Legal Advisor; re-advertised
Job in
Sandton, 2172, South Africa
Listing for:
Sanlam
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-02-06
Job specializations:
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Finance & Banking
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Law/Legal
Financial Law
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Legal Advisor (re-advertised)
Who are we?
Sanlam Investment Group
The Sanlam Investment Group is uniquely equipped and positioned to deliver on its purpose of empowering generations to be financially confident, secure and prosperous. Through our vast in-house expertise and strategic partner networks, we can access all asset classes across the globe, private and public, actively and passively managed, to develop investment solutions that are in our clients’ best interests and have a positive impact on society.
Backed by the Sanlam Group’s balance sheet, the Sanlam Investment Group has a true competitive advantage in its ability to invest alongside clients, particularly in private markets where impact investing drives the agenda.
The Sanlam Investment Group is one of the largest, most diversified financial services and investment firms in Southern Africa with assets under management and administration of more than R2 trillion. It is a B-BBEE level 1 contributor and one of the largest black-empowered asset managers on the African continent.
Sanlam Alternative Investments (SAI)
The purpose Sanlam Alternative Investments (SAI) business is to help build the African continent and make a real sustainable difference in the emerging economies in which we operate in, aligning to the Sanlam Group’s mission of financial inclusion. The SAI business has a broad range of capabilities that include Private Equity, Specialised Finance, Property, Infrastructure and Partnerships. Sanlam is the biggest non-banking financial institution on the continent, operating in Africa for over 100 years.
What will you do?
To perform the role of a banking and finance / general corporate / private equity and fund attorney in a legal team, providing professional legal advice and risk management services to internal clients to mitigate Sanlam Alternative Investments’ (“SAI”) legal risks.
What will make you successful in this role?
Providing legal advice:
Participating in the relevant committees and reporting on legal or reputational risks.Structuring, negotiation, documentation, and on-going management of legal aspects of transactions within a risk framework acceptable to SAI and Committee’s conditions.Provide commercially viable solutions to technical issues.Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating corporate, banking, security and finance documentation across the debt, properties, empowerment, and equities sectors such as - committed bilateral and syndicated loans, risk/funded participation agreements, guarantees and indemnities, letters of credit secondary debt trading documentation.Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating on transactions related to project finance, equity-based investments, private equity, fund finance, empowerment funding and venture capital.Reviewing and negotiating cross-border and international transactions.Advising on distressed debt and restructurings.Advising on insolvency and litigation issues.Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating non-core business documentation.Preparation and updating precedent and know-how systems.Providing training to the business on topical areas of law.Manage stakeholder relationships:
Build and maintain effective relationships with relevant stakeholders and users.Develop trusting professional internal relationships by keeping relevant stakeholders and users informed of any new changes to the law which may impact their business.Develop and manage professional relationships with external clients, external legal counsel and external legal advisors representing client interests.Manage internal processes:
Maintaining and updating legal templates.Ensuring sound and efficient legal processes.Drafting of high-quality legal agreements.Ensuring company’s risk is adequately identified, mitigated and/or managed.Providing guidance to SAI lender / financing representative and operations on financial close processes.Regular reporting to the SAI Head of Legal on workload, turnaround times and skills development.Proactively identifying areas for business and legal improvement.Project managing plans identified for improving legal efficiencies.Management of appointing, briefing, and monitoring of outside legal counsel whilst containing costs.Ma…
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