Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Associate: Intellectual Property and Technology

About the job
Experience and Qualifications:
• Qualified Advocate with 2 - 3 years’ post admission experience in advising in general commercial IP matters (copyright, trademarks mainly), IP due diligence transactions supporting a busy M&A practice, regulatory and compliance issues covering data protection, payments law, cyber security, fintech, cryptocurrency and financial platforms.
• LLB degree with a solid academic transcript.

Job Accountabilities:
• Advising on commercial IP matters touching on copyright law, trademarks, software agreements, IP due diligence supporting our Corporate and M&A transactional teams
• Drafting commercial agreements and other transaction related ancillary documents and agreements
• Regulatory and compliance advisory on legal issues covering payments law, cyber security, fintech, cryptocurrency and financial platforms
• Drafting opinions
• Drafting and reviewing legal documentation, including the vetting of agreements touching on intellectual property, payments law, cyber security, fintech, cryptocurrency and financial platforms
• Reviewing legislation to provide advice
• Attending to research, supporting senior lawyers on larger matters
• Attending to consultations with clients
• Assisting in managing and training candidate attorneys
• Project managing matters, including role players in both internal and external project teams
• Understanding client commercial drivers and tailoring solutions to meet their needs

Competencies:
• Legal technical and commercial ability: including Legal technical knowledge, impeccable research and presentation skills, legal drafting, business acumen / commercial sense, project management
• Teamwork
• Business Development: including:
• the ability to build, develop, nurture and leverage internal and external networks;
• cross-functional collaboration;
• client engagement; and
• the ability to apply and utilise structured business development methodologies.

Personal Attributes:
• Takes initiative
• Perseverance
• Results driven
• Solutions focused
• Team player and collegial
• Ethical
• Client Focus
• High Work Standards
• Planning and organizing
• Commercially minded
• Well read

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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