Legal Counsel

You believe you have the educational background and professional experience to elevate the organization to the highest international standards? CAF is looking to recruit a Legal Counsel.

Responsibilities:

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.

Requirements (profile):

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent legal qualification.
• Admission to practice or professional legal qualification is an asset.
• 3–6 years of relevant professional experience as a lawyer, legal associate or in-house legal counsel.
• Experience in a law firm, international organization, intellectual property institution, regulatory environment or commercial legal practice is an asset.
• Demonstrated exposure to contract drafting, commercial advisory work, intellectual property matters, legal research and legal drafting.
• Exposure to sponsorship, media, rights management, brand protection or related commercial legal work is an advantage.
• Business know-how and IT skills
• Solid grounding in legal drafting, contract review and legal research.
• Good understanding of commercial legal work, intellectual property and institutional legal frameworks.
• Familiarity with sponsorship, media, regulatory or governance matters is an asset.
• Good command of MS Office tools and ability to work with document management systems.
• Team spirit: works closely with the Head of Legal Affairs, the Director of Legal Affairs & Compliance and colleagues across the organization; contributes to common objectives.
• Provides responsive, practical and solution-oriented legal support to internal clients.
• Professionalism: reliable, discreet, well-organized and capable of handling confidential matters with sound judgment.
• Competencies and characteristics
• Strong drafting and analytical skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage several files in parallel and work under pressure.
• Strong sense of confidentiality and institutional judgment.
• Structured, disciplined and execution oriented.
• Comfortable working in a multicultural and fast-moving environment.
• Commercially minded and able to support business-facing legal matters in a practical way.
• Language skills
• English (fluent, written and spoken) – required.
• French – asset.
• Interest in football governance, commercial operations and international legal practice is an asset.

We offer:

• An interesting and varied job in an exciting and innovative international organization.
• Attractive employment conditions.
• The opportunity to be part of a highly committed international team.
• An excellent pension scheme.