Practice Areas
We focus on these key areas of law.
- Arbitration clauses
- Contracts with or without appeal-clauses in case of arbitration
- Choice and appointment of arbitrators
- Conduct of arbitration proceedings
- Approach to all problems and issues ancillary thereto
- Banking Law and Finance
- Black Economic Empowerment(BEE) / Structuring/Solutions
- Business Rescue
- Competition Law
- Technology, media and telecommunications
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Law
- Cross-border transactions
- Due Diligences (Financial and Legal)
- Financial, tax and Legal
- Energy, Oil, Gas
- Environmental Law
- Exchange control
- Healthcare and pharmaceutical
- Information technology
- Data Protection
- Insolvency and corporate recoveries
- Intellectual Property Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Outward and inward investment
- Property Law/Transfer of Property
- Sale of Business
- Tax Law
- Advice and representation with respect to project development and financing
- New supply, negotiation of power purchase agreements
- Acquisition of project facilities
- All related commercial and regulatory issues.
- Directors as to trading in what may constitute insolvent circumstances
- Directors, whether or not a company should go into business rescue
- Creditors, whether or not they should make application for business rescue as opposed to liquidation
- Creditors, whether or not to oppose business rescue proceedings
- Creditors in attending meetings and dealing with their claims and securities in business rescue
- Liaising with and between the business rescue practitioner/s and existing directors/shareholders
- Creditors, in relation to the provision of post commencement finance
- Creditors and directors on the general moratorium on legal proceedings after filing for business rescue.
- Creditors regarding their protection of property interests
- Creditors and directors on the effect of business rescue on contracts
- Shareholders and directors on the essence and consequences of remuneration arrangements for the business rescue practitioner
- Shareholders and directors on the structure, implementation and approval of the business rescue plan
- Shareholders and directors dealing with a compromise between the company and its creditors
- Creditors and directors on the commencement and administration of the insolvency process including proof of claims
- Creditors and liquidators on cross-border recognition of liquidations and liquidators, provisional or final
- Creditors and liquidators on the attachment of assets in foreign jurisdictions
- Creditors, shareholders and directors on liability issues relating to trading recklessly or in insolvent circumstances
- Creditors, shareholders and directors on trading without regard being had to the Business Judgment Rule or the Solvency Test
- Creditors on providing support in forensic legal issues arising from liquidation proceedings
- Creditors in respect of recovery of assets in the liquidation scenario
- Creditors on sequestration proceedings or hand-over of one’s Estate for natural persons
- Creditors and liquidators in respect of the approval and implementation of insolvency enquiries
- Creditors, liquidators and trustees as regards recovery of assets disposed of by the debtor
- Shareholders and directors on their role in all these processes
- M&A employment related issues
- Employment agreements, policies and procedures
- General employment advice
- Litigation and private dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration)
- Regulatory advice
- Transferring, outsourcing or closure of production facilities or businesses
- Workplace audits
- Workplace employment equity and discrimination issues
- Construction and engineering claims
- Workplace discipline and counselling
- Collective bargaining
- Income tax, withholding taxes, capital gains tax and value-added tax
- International tax: inward and outward investment
- Estate planning: domestic and international
- Tax structuring of black economic empowerment transactions as well as M&As
- Exchange control
- Liaison and negotiation with tax authorities and regulators
- Tax litigation and dispute resolution: settlement negotiations, alternative dispute
- Resolution, objections and Tax Court appeals
