Legal Advisor Specialist - Cape Town, South Africa - Moving Heads Personnel

Moving Heads Personnel

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Legal Advisor Specialist

Cape Town
Responsible for providing advanced or specialist legal support. Also partakes in actions related to commercial lease agreements, legal risk management, and compliance control. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts over periods of up to 3 months.

Responsible for drafting, reviewing, negotiating terms of complex commercial lease agreements.
Drafting, reviewing and negotiating property procurement / vendor agreements, brokerage and other agreements within the retail and office property sector.
Offer legal advice on the structuring of above agreements to the team members responsible for contracting.
Ensure proper recording of contractual transactions' terms and conditions in accordance to property and procurement committees' approvals, as well as communication to all impacted stakeholders (e.g. rental payments, beneficial occupation dates, lease periods etc).
Responsible to fulfil a legal advisory role on all legal matters.
Provide legal opinions / comments on legislation and common law as far as it related to the business activities.
Accountable for advising the legal aspects in order to support operations and strategy, including engagement with landlords, property management companies, clients, vendors/suppliers etc in matters of dispute.
Attend to legal issues in respect of properties, maintenance and general disputes.
Contributes to the appropriate management of legal risk and compliance within the area of responsibility.
Facilitates mitigating potential risk situations.
Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, including but not limited to the Estate Agency Affairs Act and Regulations, Property Practitioners Act and Regulations, POPIA, Companies Act etc.
Ensure compliance with Group policies
Performing internal lease audits: reconciliation of contents of Agreements of Lease with Minutes. Offer to Lease, Vetting requirements, Letters of Acceptance, Legal and Project Memos in terms of protocol.
Compiling and finalizing the Agenda and Minutes for the Property Committee Meetings.
Bachelor Of Laws (LLB) (required), Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (required)18.1lo