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 projects 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
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- foreign direct investment
- flotations
- franchise
- joint ventures
- licensing agreements
- management arrangements
- mergers
- partnerships
- private equity
- purchase and supply agreements
- registration
- security issues
- strategic alliances
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