Practice Areas
We focus on these key areas of law.
- Conducting of both Legal and Financial Due Diligences for target companies of all sizes
- Sale of Business transactions
- Advisory regarding Takeover Regulations
- Drafting of Sale of Shares/Business Agreements and transaction documents
- Compliance with both local and international competition laws
- Merger approval applications to the Competition Commission and Competition Tribunal
- Exemption applications
- Complaints relating to anti-competitive conduct, including appearances before the Competition Commission and Competition Tribunal in interim relief, intervention, defence and appeal proceedings
- Drafting of Arbitration clauses and Agreements
- Arrangement of arbitration proceedings, including appointment of arbitrators
- Chairperson services for Arbitration proceedings
- Representation for Arbitration proceedings
- Magistrates and High Court Civil Litigation
- Labour Court Litigation
- CCMA Litigation and support
- Body Corporate/HOA Disputes and CSOS litigation
- Banking Law and Finance
- Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) structuring and solutions
- Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law
- Cross-Border Transactions
- Energy, Oil, Gas
- Environmental Law
- Exchange Control procedures
- Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Law
- Information Technology Law
- Choice and appointment of arbitrators
- Conduct of arbitration proceedings
- Company Incorporations
- Company Secretarial Services
- Drafting of Resolutions and Meeting Minutes
- Annual General Meetings support
- Beneficial Ownership compliance
- FICA Compliance assistance, including drafting of KYC Bundles
- Drafting of Risk Management and Compliance Programmes (RMCP)
- POPI/PAIA Compliance
- Information Regulator Registration and Reporting
- Drafting of Privacy Policies
- Drafting of Data Transfer Agreements
- Drafting of PAIA Manuals
- Property Due Diligence reports
- Drafting of Offers to Purchase
- Property Transfer support
- Neighbour Law disputes
- Registration and renewal of Trade Marks
- Trade Mark Disputes
- 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.
- Support of Business Rescue procedures
- 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
- Department of Labour Audit Support
- 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
