Corporate and Commercial
We offer in-depth experience across a range of sectors, combining legal expertise and market knowledge with a thorough understanding of their clients' businesses to deliver advice that is both pragmatic and cost effective.
Our clients include many of South Africa's leading corporates and emerging companies, a large number of international businesses, as well as private investors, financial institutions and private equity groups.
We offer an extensive range of services and our corporate and commercial lawyers are supported on transactions by specialist practitioners in areas such as competition and regulatory; employment (labour, human resources); environmental; finance and banking; information technology; intellectual property; pensions; real estate; and tax.
Our Corporate and Commercial practice is ranked in the top tier in the world's most influential legal and business directories. We advise clients on domestic and cross border transactions and have been involved in a number of South Africa's most high profile and complex corporate transactions, international acquisitions and cross border mergers. We handle all transactional and advisory work.
We provide commercial contract support for in-house legal teams and structure relationships with customers and suppliers. We also support clients in handling their important commercial contracts and projects ranging from straight-forward agreements to complex, multi-party projects across many jurisdictions.
Our Dispute Resolution practice provides services to all of the firm's commercial and corporate clients, dealing with the numerous different categories of disputes which arise in the life of a large commercial enterprise.
The areas we focus on include:
- acquisitions
- business process outsourcing
- black economic empowerment
- corporate formation
- corporate governance
- commercial contracts
- commercial outsourcing
- corporate tax
- debt and corporate restructuring
- disposals
- distribution
- due diligence investigations
- employee arrangements
- foreign direct investment
- flotations
- franchise
- joint ventures
- licensing agreements
- management arrangements
- mergers
- partnerships
- private equity
- purchase and supply agreements
- registration
- security issues
- strategic alliances


