Contracts Counsel: Global Energy Trading

Cape Town (Hybrid, 2 days in office) · Full-time · Admitted attorney, 2–5 years PQE (flexible)

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Checked and dated15 October 2026

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A live Cape Town in-house seat at World Fuel (World Kinect), a Fortune 500 global energy company. The Contracts Counsel supports the physical fuel supply and trading business, predominantly aviation: drafting and negotiating sale, purchase, logistics and service agreements, advising on international fuel trading issues, developing contract templates, and working within a 35+ member legal team spread across the US, Singapore, UK, South Africa, Costa Rica and Brazil. Hybrid, with two days a week in the Cape Town office.

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Fortune 500 in-house experience from Cape Town, without relocating: cross-border energy trading contracts, a genuinely international legal team, and commercial exposure that few SA firm seats can match at 2–5 years PQE. It is a textbook example of the in-house commercial route the Pathways thesis is built on.

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