À propos de ce poste Associate Legal Counsel chez Sporty Group
About the Role
You’ll be a support resource for our Legal Team in relation to LATAM betting/gaming regulation, contracts and legal affairs, with additional exposure to global legal matters across the group’s other jurisdictions, including commercial contracts, corporate governance, litigation and regulatory topics, as well. Your primary mission will be to review and draft contracts and legal documents, and to support the team’s legal routines under the Legal Counsel’s supervision. This includes legal research, litigation support, corporate housekeeping and keeping the legal library organized. Depending on business needs, you may also support regulatory and certification processes (audits, submissions, contact with test labs and regulators).
On a secondary attribution, to provide support to the South African Team and other jurisdictions.
What you'll do:
- Review, draft and negotiate commercial agreements (vendor, service, marketing, sponsorship, affiliate, NDAs, data processing), flagging risks and proposing mitigations to the Legal Counsel
- Review corporate, regulatory and commercial documents (policies, terms and conditions, powers of attorney, board resolutions, filings) for accuracy and consistency
- Keep the legal library and contract repository up to date, with version control, templates, standard clauses, a central register of contracts and key dates (renewals, expiries, notice periods), and an internal knowledge base
- Support litigation and administrative proceedings by gathering documents and evidence, tracking deadlines, coordinating with external counsel, and preparing case summaries and status reports
- Carry out legal and regulatory research (contracts, consumer, data protection, corporate, betting/gaming law) and draft junior-level memos and opinions
- Help with corporate housekeeping: entity records, corporate acts, registrations and filings
- Support regulatory and certification processes when needed: tracking certificate and report expiry dates, preparing documents for audits and regulator submissions, and liaising with testing labs;
- Assist the Compliance teams (Brazil, Mexico and South Africa etc.) with policy drafts, regulatory checks and internal processes;
- Handle internal legal requests from business teams (Product, Marketing, Finance, HR), sorting and routing them under the Legal Counsel’s supervision;
- Prepare reports and status updates for leadership and stakeholders;
- Support certification and compliance projects end-to-end: scheduling, tracking progress, coordinating with testing labs (ATFs), preparing documentation for audits and regulator submissions;
- Interface with external certification bodies, testing labs, third-party vendors, and regulators;
- Prepare reports, dashboards and status updates for leadership & stakeholders
What you'll bring:
- Law degree and active BAR membership;
- Fluent English and Spanish (written & spoken) are mandatory.
- Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, ability to manage multiple certification tracks
- Analytical mindset, capacity to learn technical standards (software, testing, gaming)
- Proactive, good communicator, ability to liaise across teams and external entities
- No prior experience in betting/gaming regulation or certification is required
Even better if:
- Understanding of games, betting, sports and igaming industry.
- Interest in sports.
- Experience or coursework in contracts and regulatory law, litigation support or in-house legal routines (including internships).
- Availability to work on hybrid model and/or to relocate to São Paulo, Brazil, but fully remote applications will also be considered;