Job Opportunities at Clyde & Co

The Role:

• The successful incumbent must have 2 years plus PQE and must come from a reputable law firm.

Salary is negotiable based on experience.

See below brief summary on the nature of the Corporate practice:

• The practice covers a broad range of corporate and regulatory matters with a focus on the financial services industry. The Corporate team regularly assists clients on structuring, negotiating and documenting complex corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliance structures, complex insurance and reinsurance contracts, profit share arrangements, transactions involving insurtech and parametric/indexed products, new insurance and reinsurance products and portfolio transfers.
• In addition, it advises clients on all aspects of financial service regulation in South Africa, including licensing of insurers, reinsurers, branches of foreign reinsurers, cell captive insurers and microinsurers, intermediary licensing and regulation and compliance with data protection laws.
• The Corporate practice's experience also includes various types of commercial transactions, such as commercial contracts (supply, distribution, agency, licensing, services, binder, intermediary and outsourcing agreements) and technology-related agreements.

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If you're looking for the perfect environment to learn, develop and progress, we think you'll love life here. We're a growing firm (one of the fastest growing in the world, in fact). And we work at the heart of sectors that drive global trade and commerce. It makes this an unrivalled opportunity to take on exciting, high profile work and to grow as rapidly as us.

At Clyde & Co in South Africa we know the importance of maximizing our candidates' exposure to all aspects of our specialised practice and providing them with the appropriate guidance and training to ensure a meaningful articling experience. We take a teamwork approach. Candidates Attorneys are given the opportunity to work closely with both associates and partners, while being given the freedom to act independently. A healthy balance is maintained between theoretical and practical tasks

We offer vacation scheme work placements and articles in both our Johannesburg and Cape Town offices. We do advise you applying as soon as possible for both our vacation scheme and articles, as we may begin inviting for interview places before the deadline.

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The Role:

Clyde & Co has an opportunity in Johannesburg for a Coverage Disputes attorney with 4+ years of experience. We are looking for a bright, ambitious, highly motivated lawyer, with experience in complex insurance coverage disputes matters and with experience from a reputable law firm.

The successful incumbent will report to Daniel Le Roux who's practice is focussed on liability and coverage disputes. He is recognised as a leading expert in Dispute Resolution and Insurance law.

Education and Experience Required

• Admitted to practice in South Africa
• 4+ years of disputes experience
• Excellent academic credentials
• Solid work history

Skills and Abilities Required

• Strong research, writing, and analytical skills;
• Interpersonal, leadership, and mentoring skills;
• Ability to handle matters of a highly sensitive nature;
• Ability to handle time sensitive matters;
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects;
• Excellent organizational and time management skills;
• Ability to identify and resolve problems quickly.

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Job Description

• We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our award-winning regional construction team based in South Africa. The firm's renowned construction dispute resolution ability means that we are well-equipped to handle litigation and transactional work with ease. Most of the projects are on a large scale and have a high profile within the local and international construction market.

Responsibilities

• Managing a caseload of mainly contentious construction matters
• Assisting Partners with advisory work during project construction phase
• Drafting and assisting with the negotiating a wide variety of building/ engineering contracts
• Providing advice on warranties, guarantees and appointment documentation
• Assisting Partners in delegation of work to and supervision of juniors in team
• Working closely with clients and continually developing the aptitude to foster long term client relationships
• Active participation in practice group business development

Requirements

• Strong academic background and training from a recognised international firm/practice
• At least 4 - 5 year's construction experience gained at a reputable law firm with a strong reputation in the field of construction litigation.
• An ability and willingness to work on both contentious and non-contentious matters is essential.
• Regional experience with a focus on SA matters is necessary
• Proven track record in taking a lead role in complex and high ZAR value litigation.
• A real interest in marketing/business development and the ability to foster long term relationships
• A willingness to assume responsibility and take a pro-active and commercial approach to issues
• Ability to work in a team and autonomously
• Pro-active and commercial approach
• Driven, enthusiastic and flexible team player

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Clyde & Co is the world's pre-eminent insurance law firm, providing the highest quality advisory and dispute resolution services to insurers and their clients operating in both established and emerging markets.

Placing our clients at the centre of everything we do, our aim is to combine our specialist market experience with market-leading relationship management to build a service which is tailored specifically to the needs of our clients, based on an understanding of their individual claims philosophies and underwriting appetite, as well as the capital, operational and regulatory issues they face.

We offer an unmatched depth of coverage and defence capabilities across every line of insurance and reinsurance business, from the smallest claim to the most complex loss.

Clyde & Co provides clients with ready access to advice on contentious issues regardless of business sector or location, handling disputes of all sizes up to complex multi-jurisdictional cases.

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The Role

The role will be focused on handling cases arising from a combination of Fraud, Motor, EL/PL claims.

We are interested in hearing from lawyers who come from a background of personal injury litigation and ideally with emphasis on Fraud, Motor and EL/PL experience .

A similar background in a defendant law firm would be ideal, with a high standard of verbal and numerical reasoning and the ability to analyse, evaluate and communication information logically is key - together with proficient IT skills.

The role will involve:

• Running a case load of files in a manner compliant with our service level agreements with insurers.
• Assisting in the defence of Fraud, Motor and EL/PL claims.
• Communicating with clients effectively and complying with deadlines and clients' reporting requirements.
• Capturing and recording management information.
• Communicating with clients effectively and complying with deadlines and clients' reporting requirements.