Subhash Bhoora

• Delivered legal counsel on non-trading transactions with clients and third parties.
• Managed end-to-end contract administration, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Led negotiations for client contracts while aligning legal strategies with corporate objectives.
• Collaborated with Risk Management to mitigate legal risks through policy revisions.
• Coordinated regional litigation issues, providing management with critical visibility.
• Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated medium to complex contractual engagements.
• Provided legal support to managers, ensuring compliance with legislation throughout processes.
• Ensured alignment of regional legal strategies with key business drivers.

• Responsibilities aligned with those associated with Senior Legal Advisor.

• Responsibilities aligned with those associated with Senior Legal Advisor.

LEGAL

o Provide appropriate, proactive legal advice and legal interpretation

o Identify, evaluate, and advise on potential, current or future legal risks

o Draft and review contracts to ensure that the contracts entered into by the organisation are effectively drafted, reviewed, interpreted, and vetted

o Review and sign off policy documents as requested by the organisation

o Provide legal opinion on all matters as instructed by the organisation to ensure that the organisation' interests are protected

o Act as a sounding board for legal advisors and ensure best practice (professional ethics)

o Conduct strategic reporting on the organisation' relevant issues such as litigation management, with the purpose of identifying trends in order to mitigate and prevent future risks

o Develop, manage, and deliver on Service Level Agreements with internal business partners

o Research and analyse the implications of case law, legislations and regulatory matters that affect the company

o Manage translation of legislative and regulatory issues and the impact of new legislation on the organisation

o Contribute towards Legislative and Regulatory matters to ensure that communication covers impacted functional areas or organisation units

CONTRACTS MANAGEMENT

o Primary commercial interface with key strategic Suppliers and or Partners (e.g. Huawei, ZTE, MTN, Facebook)

o Ensure that all the contractual obligations/deliverables are met by the Suppliers and Company

o Be responsible for ensuring all change control procedures are adhered to by Suppliers and Company and that variations are in accordance with agreed contractual terms and pricing

o Manage and escalate all Suppliers and Company contract non-compliance events in accordance with the contractual terms

o Engage with the Suppliers and the relevant internal departments to ensure that project timelines are met and manage all penalties to be applied to the Suppliers in accordance with the contract

o Engage with the relevant internal departments to ensure that all managed services KPI’s are met by Suppliers and manage all penalties to be applied in accordance with the contract

o Ensure that all Acceptances (Conditional/Provisional/Final) are performed and duly completed in accordance with the terms of contract

o Manage (when required) all invoices and payments to Supplier(s) in coordination with the relevant internal departments including Procurement, Finance and Treasury departments and facilitate any possible disputes between Company and Supplier(s)

o Provide internal departments, committees and Executives with contract advice and support

REPORTING

o Support other internal departments in maintaining and keeping current a risk register relating to various projects and report such risk assessments to stakeholders as and when required

o Support other internal departments in monitoring projects and provide reports as required

o Draft reports and statistics for management as to all contractual activities relating to the contract when required

CONTRACT NEGOTIATION

o Prepare documentation required to support commercial negotiations and participate as lead in negotiation process

o Provide key negotiation and legal advice to internal customers with an emphasis on contractual finalisation and/or risk minimization

o Drive cost reduction programs such as value analysis/engineering and standardization

o Ensure that agreements between Company, Suppliers and subcontractors are in place and manage same

v PROJECTS

§ Project Manager and Legal lead for the negotiation, drafting, vetting and finalisation of Frame Supply Agreements (Second and Third iteration inclusive) with Huawei (on average $400m) and ZTE (on average $300m)

§ Legal work stream leads for negotiating, drafting and finalisation of a ‘first-in-SA’ Wi-Fi Express’ Project with Facebook

§ Tasked to negotiate and finalise the National Roaming Agreement between Cell C and MTN – Phase 1, completed 2018

§ Created and deployed the strategy to ensure POPI and best practice Data Privacy policies across Cell C customer base

§ Legal work stream that led the negotiations, drafting and finalisation of the Phase 2 contract between MTN and Cell C. This includes managing Regulatory, Competition Commission, technical and commercial concerns

§ Legal work stream on current Tower Portfolio sale managing, negotiations and drafting from a legal perspective of the transaction

§ Legal representative for negotiation and finalization of concerns raised by Franchisees relating to new terms and conditions proposed

§ Tasked with ensuring that all customers facing contracts and interactions are POPI compliant (in progress and near completion)

• Responsibilities aligned with those associated with the Senior Legal Manager.

• In my role at ABSA, I managed the Human Resources commodity which incorporated Recruitment, Learning & Development, Training and Wellness portfolios and my duties included:
• Demand challenge of all HR spend with specific regard to Recruitment
• Operational control of Master Service Agreements (MSA) within the portfolio
• SUPPORTING INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS WITH PROCESSES
• Negotiating commercials
• Drawing up Service Level Agreements
• Drafting Master Service Agreements (MSA) and Global Framework Agreements (GFA)
• Verification of all proposed engagements with external suppliers to ensure that all obligations as set out in the relevant MSA or GFA were adhered to, with specific regard to agreed pricing, deliverable based pricing models and appropriate resource allocation
• Vetting and drafting of contracts, giving legal and business opinions regarding engagements with potential and existing vendors

• In my role at Standard Bank, I managed the Professional Services commodity, and my duties included:
• Commercial verification of submissions to engage with third party consultants
• Validate existing contracts
• Verify rate cards and existing service requests
• Negotiate rates per transaction and per supplier
• Confirm scope and deliverables to be measured by agreed acceptance criteria
• Identify turnkey vs. augmentation engagements against milestone vs. time and material pricing models
• Operational control of Online Procurement Tools and business requirements submitted by internal stakeholders
• INTERNAL STAKEHOLDER SUPPORT WITH PROCESSES
• Compilation and drafting of Service Requests against Master Service Agreement’s (MSA)
• Verification of all proposed engagements with external suppliers to ensure that all obligations as set out in the MSA are adhered to. i.e. specific clause negotiations and drafting
• Perform requests for proposals (RFP’s), requests for information (RFI) etc.
• Engage with ring fenced or market wide third parties
• Collect and collate proposals received
• Verify, interpret, and score proposals according to pre-existing weighting parameters / selection criteria
• Select approved third party suppliers
• Negotiate contracts and rates with potential third-party suppliers
• Assist the Legal Department with drafting of negotiated contracts