Legal Manager

Legal Counsel Manager

Job Purpose

Responsible for driving legal projects and activities relating to the General Counsel’s Office function, servicing South Africa and assisting the General Counsel with servicing Africa - with special emphasis on drafting, reviewing and negotiating various contracts and providing internal legal advice to other teams across service lines while adhering to EY’s internal policies (both locally and internationally). Negotiating of software license agreements part of scope. This role will also be responsible to maintenance and updating of al templates across Africa.

The candidate will report to the General Counsel, Africa Region.

Duties and responsibilities will include the following:

General Counsel Office (GCO):

The Commercial Lawyer (Manager) will assist the GCO with the following tasks across the Africa Region of EY, and across all service lines in the EY Africa Region with an i...