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The Competition Commission seeks to appoint a dynamic, hard-working, and committed individual to fill the role of Principal Legal Counsel in the Market Inquiry Division. This is a unique opportunity for a legal expert with a strong background in investigation, market regulation, competition law, litigation processes, and investigative analysis. The successful incumbent will lead legal and analytical work in market inquiries.

Reporting to the Divisional Manager, the Principal Legal Counsel will strategically lead the legal and analytical components of market inquiries, ensuring investigations are legally sound, strategically focused, and aligned with the objectives of the Competition Act. Responsibilities include resource allocation, participating in Commission Committees, and building capacity for research, report writing, and correspondence. The Principal Legal Counsel will also lead, direct, and manage the market inquiry technical team and supervise analysts.

A starting annual total cost to company package of R 1,862,650.39 (negotiable, commensurate with experience).

Please note that this position is available on a five-year fixed-term contract.

The main responsibilities include:

• Providing legal support to the Market Inquiry Division, including legal research and advice to the Divisional Manager and the Market Inquiry Panel.
• Leading and managing the legal and technical aspects of market inquiry investigations.
• Defining scope, identifying issues, and developing legal-analytical frameworks, including drafting terms of reference and legal documents.
• Developing analytical frameworks for assessing issues, researching international best practices and jurisdictional approaches.
• Guiding senior analysts and junior staff on legal analysis.
• Developing information requests, review instruments, and evidence-gathering protocols.
• Supervising and evaluating a multidisciplinary team of legal and analytical professionals.
• Applying competition legislation to assess market features and public interest considerations.
• Drafting and reviewing inquiry reports and actions.
• Formulating remedies to address competition issues identified.
• Monitoring compliance with recommendations and remedial actions.
• Leading stakeholder engagements, including public hearings and consultations.
• Managing external legal counsel and ensuring effective case strategy.
• Providing litigation support before tribunals and courts.
• Representing the Commission in strategic forums and contributing to capacity building.
• Participating in planning, committees, and knowledge-sharing platforms.

Are you a seasoned legal professional ready to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic, purpose-driven organisation? RealNZ is seeking aSenior Legal Counselto join our team and help us navigate the complex legal and regulatory landscape while supporting our mission to connect people with nature.

As Senior Legal Counsel at RealNZ, you'll deliver pragmatic, strategic legal advice across a broad range of areas including corporate and commercial law, privacy, consumer protection, planning, and environmental law. You'll be instrumental in helping RealNZ meet its legal obligations, manage risk, and support governance activities - particularly around privacy compliance and environmental consents and concessions.

In this role, you'll draft, negotiate, and review a variety of contracts, and provide clear, practical guidance that supports informed decision-making. A strong collaborator, you'll build trusted relationships across the business to foster a culture of compliance and legal awareness.

What will you bring?

• Tertiary qualification in law and a current (or eligible) NZ Law Society Practising Certificate.
• Significant legal experience, ideally in both in-house and private practice settings.
• Strong knowledge of NZ legislation including the Privacy Act, Fair Trading Act, Consumer Guarantees Act, and Companies Act.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• A resilient, proactive mindset with a keen eye for detail.

What's in it for you?

• Be part of a business that cares deeply about people, place, and the environment
• Enjoy some incredible staff perks! Bring a friend along to experience RealNZ's unforgettable adventures at a fantastic discount. Explore the Te Anau Glowworm Caves, cruise Milford & Doubtful Sound, dine at the famous Walter Peak and discover Rakiura. It's an amazing opportunity to experience the best of New Zealand without breaking the bank
• Medical insurance cover is included

Real people, real places, real experiences. Welcome to Real.

When's the best time to join the Real whānau? Now's good.

We're the conservation business that's enabled by tourism. We're helping the world, one guest at a time, fall in love with conservation. We're inspiring people to leave their places in better conditions than when they found them. We channel a guest-centric approach that fuels our genuine promise to deliver Aotearoa's most unforgettable experiences.

It's our workplace environment that makes careers at RealNZ more exciting than the regular job. Working for Real could mean you're based anywhere between a secluded island, a scenic fiord, and a snow-capped maunga. Our people, places, and workdays are a great and diverse mixture. It keeps us on our toes and adds value and passion to our work.

At RealNZ, we're committed to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Guided by our values of Pono (Keep it real) and He waka eke noa (We're all in this together), we embrace and celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences that make our team stronger. Everyone is welcome here.

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Please note that we will be interviewing candidates as they apply, and if the right person is found, we may close the role off to any further applications.

Job Title: Family Solicitor / Legal Executive – 5 PQE
Salary: Competitive – dependent on experience
Location: Liverpool City Centre (Hybrid / Flexible Working Available)
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

About the Role:
A highly respected and long-established legal practice is looking for an experienced Family Solicitor or Legal Executive (minimum 5 years’ PQE) to join their well-regarded Matrimonial team.

This role is ideal for someone who can confidently manage a varied caseload, with a particular focus on Private Law Children and Ancillary Relief matters. You’ll be a capable advocate with strong technical skills, ideally Resolution Accredited, and comfortable advising high-net-worth clients on complex and sensitive matters.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive, forward-thinking team that values collaboration, high standards of client care, and ongoing professional development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a diverse caseload, specialising in Private Law Children and Ancillary Relief matters

• Act as a confident advocate in court with strong technical knowledge

• Advise and represent high-net-worth clients in complex financial and children-related cases

• Provide exceptional client care, ensuring clear communication at all times

• Collaborate effectively with colleagues and contribute to team objectives

• Demonstrate commercial awareness and target-driven focus

• Contribute to business development activities, including social media engagement and creating content such as blogs or articles

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum 5 years’ post-qualification experience in Family Law

• Proven advocacy skills and strong technical expertise

• Experience in complex financial and children-related cases

• Highly organised, with excellent judgement and decision-making skills

• A team player with a collaborative mindset

• Confidence in business development and client engagement

• Ideally Resolution Accredited (or working towards)

Benefits Include:

• Competitive salary reflective of experience

• Flexible and hybrid working options

• Healthcare contribution

• Structured training and clear career progression

• Supportive and inclusive working environment
  
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Head of Governance, Legal, Risk, and Compliance

Apply at Pinelands | Full-time | Posted Yesterday | Job Requisition ID: JR-68225

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Old Mutual believes in the African opportunity, and our diverse talent reflects this commitment.

Job Description

We seek a dynamic governance leader to head our Governance, Risk, Legal, and Compliance (GRLC) function. This role is vital in strengthening our operating model, ensuring oversight, and enabling strategic execution through robust frameworks and controls.

The responsibilities include facilitating regulatory adherence, enterprise risk management, and legal and compliance responsibilities for Symmetry.

• Implement and enhance governance, risk, and compliance frameworks.
• Engage with group functions, auditors, and stakeholders.
• Draft reports for management and the board; liaise with the company secretary and board members.

• Manage legal risks and review operational and strategic contracts.
• Maintain contracts register and ensure compliance.
• Provide legal input on initiatives and regulatory changes.
• Engage with legal counsel and manage stakeholder relationships.

• Expert on FAIS, CISCA, AML, data privacy, and other regulations.
• Translate regulatory changes into guidance and support.
• Maintain compliance registers and promote a compliance culture.
• Represent the function in forums.

• Develop risk policies and monitoring processes.
• Assess risks, structure mitigations, and track controls.
• Report risks to management and the board.
• Lead root cause analyses and promote risk awareness.

• Lead or support key initiatives and due diligence processes.

Note: These responsibilities are indicative and not exhaustive.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven senior governance, legal, or compliance experience in financial services, asset management preferred.
• LLB (preferred), CPrac(SA).
• Deep knowledge of regulatory frameworks (FAIS, FICA, POPIA, CISCA, etc.).
• Commercial mindset with risk and business enablement skills.
• Leadership, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage complexity and drive accountability.

Skills: Adaptive Thinking, Change Management, Client Management, Computer Literacy, Data Compilation, Executing Plans, Legal Practices, Management Accounting, Numerical Aptitude, Oral Communications, Policies & Procedures, Presenting Solutions, Professional Presentation, Servant Leadership, Writing

Competencies: Builds Effective Teams, Business Insight, Collaborates, Communicates Effectively, Ensures Accountability, Instills Trust, Manages Ambiguity, Manages Complexity

Education: NQF Level 8 - Honours or Postgraduate Diploma or equivalent

Closing Date: 14 August 2025, 23:59

Note: Appointment will align with Old Mutual South Africa's Employment Equity Plan.

Ninety One City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Ninety One is an independent, active global asset manager dedicated to delivering compelling outcomes for its clients, managing £139.7 billion in assets (as at 30.06.25).

Established in South Africa in 1991, as Investec Asset Management, the firm started offering domestic investments in an emerging market. In 2020, almost three decades of organic growth later, the firm demerged from Investec Group and became Ninety One. Today the firm offers distinctive active strategies across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives to institutions, advisors and individual investors around the world.

About the team

We are not building a conventional Private Markets platform—we are reimagining how it operates, scales, and interacts with clients in a data-driven, automation-first environment. As part of this transformation, we’re hiring a Legal Counsel to join our global legal team and work in direct partnership with investment, product, and technology leads to shape the legal architecture of our Private Credit and Private Infrastructure strategies.

This is a role for lawyers who want to build. You will work at the point of innovation: designing fund structures, guiding regulatory frameworks, and embedding legal precision into intelligent, scalable operating models. You’ll help accelerate the platform’s growth through agile execution, commercial fluency, and practical legal structuring that anticipates, not just reacts to business needs.

The Legal team at Ninety One is a globally distributed group of experienced lawyers located in London, South Africa, and the United States. The team is responsible for managing all aspects of the firm’s legal affairs including fund structuring, maintenance and distribution; commercial, institutional and investment agreement negotiation; and corporate organisation and governance.

This role sits within the Private Markets vertical and will work in tight alignment with our Private Markets Product and Investment teams. It is a strategic legal seat with direct exposure to senior stakeholders, live fund launches, co-investment structuring, and transformational operational initiatives. You’ll join a group that moves fast, collaborates deeply, and is trusted as a core enabler of business growth and innovation

In this role you will:

• Lead the legal design and structuring of new private markets vehicles including GP/LP funds, co-investment structures, SPVs, feeder funds, and credit instruments, with a focus on integrating sustainability and responsible investment principles where relevant.
• Draft, negotiate, and maintain core fund documentation including LPAs, PPMs, side letters, and subscription agreements.
• Advise on jurisdictional structuring across key hubs (UK, Luxembourg, Guernsey, Delaware, Cayman) and coordinate with local counsel.
• Run institutional investor negotiations (side letters, MFN processes, placement agent agreements) ensuring commercial alignment with global clients.
• Support investment and operations teams on direct lending transactions, co-investments, fund-level financing, and secondary trades.
• Act as a regulatory lead on frameworks such as AIFMD, Securitisation Regulation, SEC exemptions, and cross-border marketing regimes including sustainability disclosure regulation.
• Work with platform and product teams to embed legal guardrails into digitised documentation workflows, approval processes, and reporting pipelines.
• Manage external counsel engagement, scope, budget, and execution quality across jurisdictions and projects.

You should consider applying if you have:

• Minimum 3+ years PQE with strong exposure to private funds, alternative assets, or structured investment vehicles.
• Mix of private practice and in-house experience preferred, ideally within asset management, infrastructure, or private credit platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in designing private infrastructure and/or private credit fund vehicles, including GP/LP agreements, SV/SPV structures and feeder funds
• Confidence navigating institutional investor negotiations and commercial-side discussions with DFIs, pensions, insurers, and SWFs.
• Familiarity with fund regimes and legal norms in core jurisdictions (Luxembourg, UK, Cayman, Delaware, Guernsey, US).
• Experience supporting deal teams on primary, secondary and co-investment transactions and fund-level finance

Some of the attributes we look for in a person are:

• Able to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in a fast-moving investment environment
• A confident communicator who can present complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers and senior management
• Comfortable working across multiple projects, time zones and countries
• Driven and intellectually curious, with a strong attention to detail
• Comfortable in agile, cross-functional environments where priorities shift and innovation is constant.
• Commercial, pragmatic, and solution-oriented with the judgment to balance legal risk and business delivery.

What you'll be part of:

• The design of a modern Private Markets platform; one that is natively intelligent, scalable, and built for institutional-grade outcomes.
• A legal function that shapes business strategy, not just reacts to it.
• A team that believes lawyers should help rewire how investment platforms operate, not sit outside of them.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Legal
• Industries Investment Management

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A leading international firm, who provides solar and energy efficiency solutions to commercial and industrial customers in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia is looking to recruit a Senior Legal Counsel to assist in the management of the legal and compliance office and provide operations support on a broad range of matters including regulatory compliance, employment, risk management, contracts, liability and insurance to ensure the maximum protection of legal rights and to maintain operations within the limits prescribed by law.

Requirements :

• 6 – 7 years experience gained with a law firm and in-house at a renewable energy company
• Strong legal experience in corporate and commercial managements
• Experience in managing external legal counsels
• Relevant experience in at least one of the following : M&A, Project Finance, and Construction & EPC agreements
• Solid experience of general business law and corporate issues
• International experience or experience working for a multinational entity will be beneficial.

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Job Title: Legal Counsellor: Service Centre (Klerksdorp)

Report Line: Manager: Legal Services Centre

Department: Legal and Claims

Job Type: Permanent

Reference: LW88/2025

Our Commitment to Our Champions

Our Champions work for a common purpose; to empower affordable and timeous access to justice through which individuals can enforce and defend their legal rights. Our Champions are integral to delivering on our brand purpose, and we constantly seek to grow our circle of Champions to enable us to expand our circles of influence. What is important to us is that our Champions feel connected with our purpose, are committed to our vision, feel empowered and recognised. We are thus focused on building people-centred strategies and practices and providing career development opportunities to enable our people to reach their full potential, both professionally and personally.

Do you stand for justice, fairness and honesty in a democratic society?

Do you believe in protecting the legal rights of South Africans, whoever the transgressor?

We cherish our independence and our power to act without interference. We give our members legal power to enforce and defend their rights through professional legal representation. If our commitment to society resonates with your character, then please respond to this call to join our team of LegalWise Champions.

Would you say that:

• You produce high quality, detailed work?
• You are a compassionate listener and advisor?
• You possess sound Legal knowledge?
• You conduct yourself in a professional and highly engaging manner?

Then look no further, LegalWise is where you should be living your purpose and your commitment to the Law.

You will be responsible for:

• Administering miscellaneous files (general issues of legal advice and problem resolution given by Legal Counsellor).
• Consultations with Members and providing telephonic advice.
• General administration duties, e.g. diarising of files, drafting correspondence, perusing incoming correspondence and data capturing.
• General Branch duties as requested.
• Providing regular feedback to Members, Managers, Senior Legal Counsellors and Head office.
• Assisting with ad hoc tasks as and when required.

These are the prerequisites to join our Company:

• LLB degree with 1-3 years’ experience in the legal field or a 2-year paralegal diploma with 3-5 years’ experience.
• Admitted Attorney advantageous.
• Internal candidates must be competent on Legal Counsellor Level 1 portfolios of evidence.
• Computer Literacy.
• Proficiency in English, Setswana and Sesotho language.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail.
• Good people skills and able to liaise professionally and effectively on all levels.
• Empathy and patience in dealing with Members.
• Problem solving abilities and negotiation skills.
• Managing work (including time management).
• Building customer loyalty and customer focus.
• Following up and providing feedback.

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• Must relocate on own cost.
• ITC/criminal check will be a requirement.
• 1 week training at Vereeniging branch is a requirement.
• Applicable Psychometric assessment/s will be a requirement.
• A valid driver’s license and own reliable transport advantageous.

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• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Legal
• Industries Insurance and Legal Services

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Our client in the Shipping Industry is seeking a Legal Counsel in their Supply Chain division to join their team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including supply, distribution, logistics, services and procurement.
• Advise on legal risks associated with the sourcing of goods and services, supplier onboarding,
• Support procurement and supply chain teams with legal guidance on vendor relationships, contract performance, and dispute resolution.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Provide legal advice during audits or investigations involving supply chain activities.
• Assist in the development of standardized templates and best practices for supply chain contracts and processes.

Minimum Requirements :

• Experience with contract negotiation and data privacy regulations.
• LLB Law
• Completed Articles.
• Familiarity with Logistics / Supply Chain / Shipping Line Industry will be an advantage

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional ethics

Should you meet the above criteria, we invite you to apply directly to the advertisement. Should you not hear back from us within 2 weeks of application, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful

Our client in the Shipping Industry is seeking a Legal Counsel in their Supply Chain division to join their team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including supply, distribution, logistics, services and procurement.
• Advise on legal risks associated with the sourcing of goods and services, supplier onboarding,
• Support procurement and supply chain teams with legal guidance on vendor relationships, contract performance, and dispute resolution.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Provide legal advice during audits or investigations involving supply chain activities.
• Assist in the development of standardized templates and best practices for supply chain contracts and processes.

Minimum Requirements :

Skills

Should you meet the above criteria, we invite you to apply directly to the advertisement. Should you not hear back from us within 2 weeks of application, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful