Legal Counsel

Job Descriptions

Support the Legal Affairs & Compliance Division in the day-to-day management of legal matters within CAF, with a particular focus on commercial legal support, contracts, intellectual property and legal advisory support to operational divisions, while escalating sensitive, strategic or high-risk matters to the Head of Legal Affairs and the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance.

• Support the Head of Legal Affairs in the provision of day-to-day legal services to CAF divisions, ensuring timely, accurate and practical legal support.
• Draft, review and revise commercial contracts and legal documents, including service agreements, consultancy agreements, NDAs, sponsorship-related agreements, marketing arrangements, media-related documents, and other routine legal instruments.
• Support legal work related to CAF’s commercial and business operations, including sponsorship, commercial partnerships, rights exploitation and related contractual matters.
• Assist with intellectual property matters, including protection, use and review of rights relating to CAF competitions, brands, content and commercial assets.
• Conduct legal research and prepare legal notes, summaries, opinions and first drafts on commercial, intellectual property, regulatory, governance and institutional matters.
• Support the preparation, review and updating of CAF regulations, internal legal guidelines, templates and related documents under supervision.
• Assist in the coordination and follow-up of disputes, litigation and arbitration matters, including document collection, deadline tracking, liaison with external counsel and preparation of case summaries, where required.
• Support internal legal review of projects and transactions involving CAF divisions, especially Commercial, Competitions, Finance, Communications and other business-facing functions, escalating issues requiring management decisions or strategic guidance.
• Maintain proper filing, archiving and traceability of legal documents and legal matters in both electronic and physical format.
• Contribute to the monitoring of legal deadlines, contractual obligations and pending action points across assigned files.
• Carry out any other legal tasks assigned by the Head of Legal Affairs or the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance.