Emil Brincker
Professor Emil Brincker is a Director and Head of our Tax & Exchange Control practice. Emil’s experience includes the areas of corporate finance, corporate reorganisation and restructuring, exchange control, export finance, funding, general banking and commercial including derivative transactions, empowerment transactions, notional vendor funding, rulings, transfer pricing and tax law including income tax, tax controversy, VAT, securities transfer tax, PAYE, capital gains tax (CGT) and other fiscal statutes.
About Emil
About Emil
Emil obtained his doctorate during 1992 on company law and his thesis related to the financial assistance by a company in relation to share acquisitions. He was offered a part-time professorship from the University of Johannesburg during 1999.
Emil began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Hofmeyr (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr). He was a Director at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs and its predecessors for approximately 13 years. Emil joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in November 2008.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- BCom cum laude, LLB cum laude, LLM cum laude LLD, University of Stellenbosch
- HDip (Tax) cum laude, University of Johannesburg
- Year of admission as an attorney: 1989
Languages
Languages
- Afrikaans
- English
About Emil
Emil obtained his doctorate during 1992 on company law and his thesis related to the financial assistance by a company in relation to share acquisitions. He was offered a part-time professorship from the University of Johannesburg during 1999.
Emil began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Hofmeyr (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr). He was a Director at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs and its predecessors for approximately 13 years. Emil joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in November 2008.
Credentials
Education
- BCom cum laude, LLB cum laude, LLM cum laude LLD, University of Stellenbosch
- HDip (Tax) cum laude, University of Johannesburg
- Year of admission as an attorney: 1989
Languages
- Afrikaans
- English
Experience
Emil’s experience includes
The areas of corporate finance, corporate reorganisation and restructuring, exchange control, export finance, funding, general banking and commercial including derivative transactions, empowerment transactions, notional vendor funding, rulings, transfer pricing and tax law including income tax, tax controversy, VAT, securities transfer tax, PAYE, capital gains tax (CGT) and other fiscal statutes.
News
Pillar 2 has arrived in South Africa
The release of the highly anticipated discussion document for South Africa pertaining to the implementation of Pillar 2 has not disappointed. Apart from the administrative burden on...
The repeal of Practice Note 31 and the impact on the deductibility of interest
Practice Note 31 (PN31), released on 3 October 1994, survived almost 30 years in circumstances where both SARS and taxpayers attacked its validity over time. Ironically, when a taxpayer...
Webinar Recording | 2023 Special Edition Budget Speech Alert
Watch as our experts' give their views on 2023 Budget Speech.
SARS adopts a very lenient approach when dividends are recharacterised as income pursuant to the issuing of preference shares
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) recently issued a draft interpretation note dealing with the circumstances where dividends in respect of preference shares are recharacterised...
Webinar Recording | 2021 Budget Speech Overview
Tax & Exchange Control experts Emil Brincker & Gerhard Badenhorst together with Investec Chief Economist, Annabel Bishop provided a practical overview of the 2021 Budget Speech.
Market recognition
- Chambers Global 2003–2024 has consistently ranked him in Band 1 for tax.
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2017–2024 recommended Emil as a leading individual for tax and named him Lawyer of the Year for tax in 2021.
Market recognition
- Chambers Global 2003–2024 has consistently ranked him in Band 1 for tax.
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2017–2024 recommended Emil as a leading individual for tax and named him Lawyer of the Year for tax in 2021.
Expertise
Tax & Exchange Control
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