Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
PROFILE » Corporate Legal Counsel, Real Estate at Amazon » BCom:Law » LLB » Diploma: Cyberlaw VISION To utilise my skills and experience in enhancing shareholder value. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS » Admitted Attorney, South African High Court (2007) » Admitted Conveyancer, South Africa (2011) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I am a highly skilled and astute legal executive with 10 years’ experience providing tailored legal, regulatory, stakeholder, risk and governance solutions in the real estate, property development and management sector. A globally enlightened legal mind with strong property experience, I excel where law and business meet. I obtained strong commercial law competencies having conducted due diligences on mergers and acquisitions, conducted submissions to various regulatory bodies, negotiated, drafted and concluded complex contractual frameworks, financial transactions, commercial agreements and managed associated litigation matters. Excellent leadership, strategy formulation and organisational management skills with the unique ability to work with stakeholders in the design and implementation of bespoke legal solutions as well as the ability to execute through people.
• Head of Legal in respect of all Group Companies and Group owned and managed properties. • Manage all property acquisitions and disposals by drafting the required sale agreements, instructing and managing external lawyers to effect transfer of the properties. Acting as lead on all high worth transactions, liaising with all parties and managing process to ensure timely and effective transfer of properties as per the legal agreements. • Extensive commercial drafting experience, including: Agency and Commission Agreements; Acknowledgements’ of Debt; Triple Net Lease Agreements, including Lease Agreements with Development Conditions for tenant specific buildings; Retail Lease Agreements and Hybrid Lease Agreements with national tenants; Option Agreements; Property Sale Agreements, including Sale Agreements for the sale of commercial properties and entire shopping centres as going concerns; Joint-Venture, Co-Owners and Consortium Agreements; Loan and Surety Agreements; Cession Agreements; Memorandums of Understanding and Heads of Agreement; Development Management and Finance Agreements; Confidential and Non-Disclosure Agreements; Sale of Shares, Share Buy Back and Shareholders Agreements, including Memorandums of Incorporation for Companies; Service Level Agreements; Property Management Agreements; general Legal Opinions and Correspondence. • Company secretarial responsibilities include drafting Company Resolutions and advising the Group on aspects of the Companies Act and compliance. • Managing all Group litigation matters through appointed panel of external lawyers. • Managing all Group insurance claims through appointed brokers. • Vetting legal agreements drafted by third parties and accordingly negotiating amended terms to these agreements as per Group policy. • Responsible for all legal related matters and providing ongoing legal advice to both the Groups’ new developments division and the property management division.
• Drafting various legal agreements, including: residential and commercial property sale and lease agreements; sale of shares; building agreements; partnership agreements; acknowledgement of debts; non discloser and non-circumvention agreements; sale of mining equipment; independent contractor agreements and service agreements. • Writing legal opinions and advising clients on: National Credit Act; Consumer Protection Act; property transactions, service agreements, building agreements and general legal matters. • All aspects of conveyancing practice, including the transfer of properties, the registration of mortgage bonds in favor of all major banks and residential (sectional title) property developments. Execution in the Deeds Office. • High Court and Magistrates Court civil litigation. • Drawing of Trust Deeds and Registration of Trusts. • General experience in Companies and Close Corporations. • Alternative Dispute Resolution.