Muzammil Ahmed

Experience

Drafting various agreements, including sale of business agreements, sale of share agreements, shareholders' agreements, memorandum of incorporations, residential lease agreements and sale of property agreements.
Assisting in due diligence investigations and preparing due diligence reports.
Assisting with general company secretarial work, including drafting various resolutions.

Credentials

Education

BA Law (International Relations and Law Majors), University of the Witwatersrand
LLB, University of the Witwatersrand

LANGUAGES

English

News

Do we even need lawyers anymore? Dealmaking in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how legal work gets done. Both locally and internationally, law firms are adopting specific legal AI-powered tools to help with drafting agreements,...

Ratchets: The most important anti-dilution tool in your investment toolbox

Venture capital and private equity investors’ strategy is to find companies, invest early and grow their investments as the investee company grows. However, this investment strategy...

Agriculture, Aquaculture & Fishing

Unlocking stalemates: Solutions for shareholder deadlocks

Imagine this – the future of your company hangs in the balance, but the room is split down the middle. Critical decisions are stalled, tempers are flaring, and progress has ground...

Agribusiness acquisitions: What to know before you buy

While each business acquisition is unique, acquiring an agri-business raises some specific, important issues. These should always be considered and dealt with to some extent in the...

Board committees 101

Section 72 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (Companies Act) empowers the appointment and operation of board committees (committees), which can play a key role in the operations of the...

Part Two: Should I ask my lawyer or should I just ChatGPT it?

In Part One, we explored ChatGPT’s capabilities in the legal field, and we saw both its impressive potential and significant limitations. Now, in Part Two, we delve deeper into the...

Should I ask my lawyer or should I just ChatGPT it?

Have you heard of the powerful tool that is taking the world by storm? ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI, has been making waves lately for its ability to generate...

Reinstate the employee! Especially if there isn’t a high level of intolerability

Is a court or arbitrator entitled or obliged, in terms of section 193(2)(b) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995, as amended (LRA), to consider whether a continued employment relationship...

But it’s my emails and stuff!

Does the mandament van spolie remedy apply to email addresses and network servers? This question was recently answered by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the case of Blendrite...

Mall owners and management companies need to be on their guard not to slip up

Is it enough for a mall owner or management company to discharge its duty of taking responsibility of its shoppers by appointing an independent cleaning company in so-called “ spillage...

But you were employed!

Understanding whether attaining employment after a dismissal precludes an employee from receiving full back pay.

Give me a (lunch) break!

In the case of Magricor (Pty) Ltd v Border Seed Distributions CC (1072/2020) ZAECGHC, the High Court of the Eastern Cape Division was tasked with resolving a dispute where Magricor...

All articles by Muzammil

Do we even need lawyers anymore? Dealmaking in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how legal work gets done. Both locally and internationally, law firms are adopting specific legal AI-powered tools to help with drafting agreements,...

Ratchets: The most important anti-dilution tool in your investment toolbox

Venture capital and private equity investors’ strategy is to find companies, invest early and grow their investments as the investee company grows. However, this investment strategy...

Agriculture, Aquaculture & Fishing

Unlocking stalemates: Solutions for shareholder deadlocks

Imagine this – the future of your company hangs in the balance, but the room is split down the middle. Critical decisions are stalled, tempers are flaring, and progress has ground...

Agribusiness acquisitions: What to know before you buy

While each business acquisition is unique, acquiring an agri-business raises some specific, important issues. These should always be considered and dealt with to some extent in the...

Board committees 101

Section 72 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (Companies Act) empowers the appointment and operation of board committees (committees), which can play a key role in the operations of the...

Part Two: Should I ask my lawyer or should I just ChatGPT it?

In Part One, we explored ChatGPT’s capabilities in the legal field, and we saw both its impressive potential and significant limitations. Now, in Part Two, we delve deeper into the...

Should I ask my lawyer or should I just ChatGPT it?

Have you heard of the powerful tool that is taking the world by storm? ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI, has been making waves lately for its ability to generate...

Reinstate the employee! Especially if there isn’t a high level of intolerability

Is a court or arbitrator entitled or obliged, in terms of section 193(2)(b) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995, as amended (LRA), to consider whether a continued employment relationship...

But it’s my emails and stuff!

Does the mandament van spolie remedy apply to email addresses and network servers? This question was recently answered by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the case of Blendrite...

Mall owners and management companies need to be on their guard not to slip up

Is it enough for a mall owner or management company to discharge its duty of taking responsibility of its shoppers by appointing an independent cleaning company in so-called “ spillage...

But you were employed!

Understanding whether attaining employment after a dismissal precludes an employee from receiving full back pay.