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City Property is a residential and commercial property management company which counts two listed property investment companies, Premium Properties and Octodec Investments, amongst its major clients, in addition to a large number of private clients. City Property’s managed portfolio comprises more than 433 buildings. City Property manages over 1.5 mill...
Description
The purpose of the role is providing legal advisory services and ensuring effective management of legal and contractual risks.
Provide legal advice to clients.
- Receive the legal file and advise on appropriate action.
- Monitor the progress on the cases.
Deal with cases where tenants take legal action against CPA.
- Receive the legal file and advise on appropriate action.
- Handle the matter relevantly appropriate and provide advice.
Dispute resolution and litigation.
- Receive the legal file and advise on appropriate action.
- Settle and negotiate dispute where possible.
- Monitor the progress on the case and report back to the Board on significant legal cases.
Ensure and monitor compliance with relevant regulations governing CPA and its clients.
- Identify and prioritizing the most relevant current, proposed an impending legislation and if (and to the extent) that these are found to have an impact on the company, the development and implementation of controls to minimize the compliance risk (for example implanting standard operating procedures or processes, manuals and policies).
- Identify and assess changes in the existing regulatory framework.
- Monitor and report non-compliance to management of the company and where appropriate, the Board.
- Recommend corrective measures or steps to ensure compliance.
- Monitor compliance through the adequacy and effectiveness of control measures to actively monitor and manage the company’s compliance with relevant legislation on a continual basis.
- Report to organisational committees of Octodec and CPA, when required.
- Create awareness with employees and training them on the finer aspects of the regulatory requirements.
Provide professional advice to the Human Resources Department.
- Provide legal advice to the Human Resources Department on labour matters.
- Act as initiator for all disciplinary enquiries.
- Provide all the administrative support for the disciplinary hearings.
- Represent the company at all CCMA cases.
Provide legal services for all commercial documentation.
- Draft and review all legal agreements.
- Provide legal resolutions on all commercial matters.
- Provide legal support in all acquisitions and sales of buildings.
- Ensure all properties are registered successfully.
- Review and liaise with the Property Managers on all bank guarantees.
Ensure professional support and legal advice, drafting and advising on documentation
- Advise on and drafting of “deal specific” clauses, agreements, and correspondence.
- Assist with queries and interpretation of existing lease documentation.
- Interpret lease agreement and resolve queries on interpretation issues.
- Draft standard lease agreement, annexures, addendums, and the like.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience:
- LLB Degree required.
- At least 3 years’ post admission experience; ideally in a leading organisation, with a proven track record in contract negotiation and drafting.
- Admitted attorney required.
Skills & Knowledge Required:
- MS Office:
- MS Word – Intermediate
- MS Excel – Intermediate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of the legislation and regulatory laws required.
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