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Kenya to introduce financial thresholds for merger notification

Competition Alert

25 Apr 2018
Competition authorities seek to regulate ‘buyer power’

Competition Alert

25 Apr 2018
Employers beware - Liability for sexual harassment in the workplace

Employment Alert

23 Apr 2018
Customs & Excise Highlights

Tax and Exchange Control Alert

20 Apr 2018
SARS speaks up: Some clarity provided on the taxation of cryptocurrencies in South Africa

Tax and Excahnge control Alert

20 Apr 2018
Payment of legal costs: State officials to feel the pinch

Dispute Resolution Alert

18 Apr 2018
Public roads in a private estate: Who makes the rules?

Dispute Resolution Alert

18 Apr 2018
Full-time shop stewards not immune from retrenchment

Employment Alert

16 Apr 2018
Protected disclosures by employees do not need to be factually accurate

Employment Alert

16 Apr 2018
Raising jurisdictional issues

Tax and Exchange Control Alert

13 Apr 2018
It’s complete: The Davis Tax Committee releases its final reports

Tax and Exchange Control Alert

13 Apr 2018
Legal 500 EMEA 2018 recognises Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s client-focussed approach

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Alert

13 Apr 2018
CDH Jo'burg celebrates Human Rights Month

Pro Bono and Human Rights Alert

11 Apr 2018
Do not be the author of your own misfortune – be commercially sensible and reasonable

Dispute Resolution and Pro Bono & Human Rights Alert

11 Apr 2018
Remuneration of business rescue practitioners – the requirement to prove claims against the insolvent estate

Dispute Resolution Alert

11 Apr 2018
Employees behind bars and the constraints on employers

Employment Alert

9 Apr 2018
Customs and Excise Highlights

Tax and Exchange Control Alert

6 Apr 2018
SARS issues new guide to understatement penalties - a march toward further certainty?

Tax and Exchange Control Alert

6 Apr 2018

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Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr has been recognised by DealMakers as the local law firm that has consistently advised on the most number of M&A deals in South Africa. The firm clinched the prestigious M&A Deal Flow award for the ninth consecutive year. Click here to read more.

The M&A Dealmaking partner that goes the distance.