Pamela Bewlay

Experience

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  Isaac T. Seleka Attorneys

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

  Associate Attorney

  • Providing legal support and other professional services to senior Counsel• Conducting legal research and preparing legal opinions• Drafting and review of legal documents such as contracts and pleadings • Advising clients on legal transactions, probable outcomes of prosecuting or defendinglawsuits, legal rights and obligations• Court attendance in civil litigation, and other legal proceedings• Successful negotiation of out-of-court settlements in civil disputes• Interpreting laws, court judgments and rulings for clients• Reporting to clients regularly on the progress of their cases• Managed cases and support staff – ensuring court deadlines were met, and made appraisals and recommendations on hiring of staff• Drafted bills of costs, and taxed these before the Taxing Master Show less

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  Chris du Plessis Attorneys

  Feb 2014 - Jan 2015

  Senior Associate Attorney

  • Advising clients on legal transactions, probable outcomes of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, legal rights and obligations• Conducting legal research and preparing legal opinions• Drafting and review of legal documents such as contracts and pleadings • Court attendance in civil litigation, and other legal proceedings, with a 99% success rate• Successful negotiation of out-of-court settlements in civil disputes• Interpreting laws, court judgments and rulings for clients• Reporting to clients regularly on the progress of their cases• Management of cases and support staff, and making appraisals and recommendationson the hiring of staff Show less

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  DLR Fiduciary (Botswana) Pty Ltd

  Jul 2017 - Aug 2021

  Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance

  • Draft, analyse and review legal documents such as contracts, risk management and compliance policies and programmes, as well as undertake annual reviews to keep up with changes in the regulatory and legislative environment• Keep up to date with, and give legal advice to senior management officials, particularly on anti-money laundering and financing transactional law, and accordingly ensure full compliance in the company's conduct of its business• Coordinate and liaise with the Financial Intelligence Agency on monitoring and reporting suspicious and specified threshold cash transactions• Align corporate governance practices with compliance laws and regulations through active planning, strategy development, as well as a collaborative liaison, and coordination with other compliance team players within the Group • Plan and train staff on compliance requirements to ensure their full compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements pertaining to anti-money laundering, and monitor this with constant feedback, partnership and teamwork• Advise on data protection legislation; raise awareness of the legal requirements of information processing; promoting good practice for handling client information across the organisation• Responsible for management and processing of requests for client information according to data protection laws• Administration responsibilities, including managing staff on complex projects, and handling client complaints and queries• Perform due diligence on all clients – screening ID, KYC & financial verification for client acceptance, and monitoring thereafter.• Ensure accepted business practices as well as professional and international standards in the company's conduct of its business• Conduct research and write up legal opinions• Serve on the executive committee and participate in the decision and policy-making process on technical matters pertaining to the finance, operations and governance of the business Show less

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  Bewlay Corporate Law

  Aug 2017 - now

  Principal Partner

  Commercial law practitioner in Gaborone, Botswana. Specialising in drafting and reviewing contracts, legal research and opinions, litigation, conveyancing, company compliance and formation.