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LC Maroun Attorneys Inc.Director
Nov. 2023City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaA specialist in the areas of technology, entertainment, media, broadcasting, influencers, marketing, data protection, privacy, intellectual property and commercial law.
SasfinSpecialist Company Secretary
Mar. 2023 - Oct. 2023
SasfinCommercial Legal Advisor
Aug. 2019 - Feb. 2023My role as a legal advisor consisted of contract negotiation, drafting, and review of IT, procurement, and marketing-related agreements. My key responsibilities included: Negotiating, drafting, and vetting agreements within the IT department, encompassing software licensing, maintenance, service, and software-as-a-service cloud computing agreements, with a strong focus on data security, in alignment with Prudential Authority guidelines. Extensively handling agreements in the procurement department, covering a wide spectrum of products and services. Providing legal support to the marketing department, focusing on coordinating marketing events, crafting competition terms and conditions, managing sponsorship agreements, and overseeing advertising agreements. Ensuring that all agreements with vendors and clients complied data privacy and security provisions governed by the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013. Providing contract management for all IT agreements. Developing a clause and template agreement library and a house style for agreements. During my time at Sasfin, my expertise lay in harmonising legal requirements with business objectives, facilitating seamless collaborations across departments, and mitigating risks. I was passionate about optimizing legal processes and promoting legal training to drive success within the organisation.
Econet Media LimitedLegal Advisor
Jun. 2017 - Jul. 2019Bryanston, South AfricaI am responsible for negotiating, drafting and vetting licensing agreements between Econet Media Limited and Hollywood studios as well as other major content suppliers for purposes of linear as well as non-linear, on-demand programming distributed by way of mobile, satellite and internet delivery. In addition to programme licence agreements, I am responsible for drafting original production commissioning agreemens, channel carriage agreements, app distribution and app development agreements. I have also been responsible for drafting joint ventures between content suppliers and Econet Media Limited.
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr IncAssociate
Sep. 2016 - May. 2017SandtonI was responsible for advising clients on intellectual property rights and drafting and vetting licensing agreements. I was responsible for negotiating, drafting and vetting agreements between broadcasters and major international content suppliers for broadcasting on linear television as well as non-linear, on-demand services distributed by way of mobile, satellite and internet. I was responsible for drafting presenter agreements. I was also responsible for drafting original production commissioning agreements. I advised clients on the use of social media platforms by employees and for the purposes of marketing business by drafting respective social media policies. I published three articles on the topic of social media laws, namely, "The impact of Pinterest on copyright law", "Who owns your social media content" and "The profitable business of hate speech". I was also invited to attend a radio interview on social media law.
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr IncCandidate Attorney
Jan. 2014 - Aug. 2016Johannesburg Area, South AfricaI completed a rotation in the litigation department primarily focusing on banking fraud. My responsibilities in this rotation included research of particular legal questions, sound knowledge of court rules and procedure, drafting court documents, filing documents at court and attending court proceedings, arbitration as well as consultations with clients. My second rotation took place in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications department. In this department my responsibilities included drafting of lease and licensing agreements for hardware and software, outsourcing agreements, service agreements, etc. I was required to have good knowledge of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI), the Electronic Communications Act and the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act. I participated in the presentation of workshops focused on the protection of personal information as well as conducted interviews within clients' companies to assess compliance with POPI. I gained valuable commercial drafting skills in this rotation. I also published the article entitled "Remembering the right to be forgotten". My last rotation took place in the Corporate and Commerical department focusing on company law and, more specifically, the Companies Act. My responsibilities have included the drafting of constitutional documents of companies and trusts, shareholders' agreements, subscription agreements, share repurchase agreements, pledge and cession agreements, board and shareholders' resolutions and company secretarial documents to be filed with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. I have also gained experience in the restructuring of companies and their shareholdings to ensure compliance with BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) through either broad-based ownership schemes or employment share incentive schemes.
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