Roxanne Webster
Roxanne Webster is a Director in our Dispute Resolution practice. Roxanne focuses on general commercial litigation, assisting clients in commercial disputes of all kinds and relating to a broad spectrum of issues, and also advises on business rescue (entering business rescue, the business rescue process and participating as a creditor in business rescue proceedings), insolvency and directors' duties and obligations.
About Roxanne
About Roxanne
Roxanne joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2014. She was appointed as an Associate in 2016 and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2019.
In 2020, she joined another law firm as a Senior Associate and returned to Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in April 2022 as Director.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
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LLB, University of Witwatersrand
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Year of Admission as Attorney and Notary Public: 2016
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Postgraduate diploma in Insolvency Law and Practice, University of Pretoria, cum laude
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LLM in Commercial Law, University of Johannesburg, cum laude
Memberships
- South African Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association
- Insol International
- Law Society of the Northern Provinces
About Roxanne
Roxanne joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2014. She was appointed as an Associate in 2016 and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2019.
In 2020, she joined another law firm as a Senior Associate and returned to Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in April 2022 as Director.
Credentials
Education
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LLB, University of Witwatersrand
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Year of Admission as Attorney and Notary Public: 2016
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Postgraduate diploma in Insolvency Law and Practice, University of Pretoria, cum laude
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LLM in Commercial Law, University of Johannesburg, cum laude
Memberships
- South African Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association
- Insol International
- Law Society of the Northern Provinces
Experience
Restructuring of Edcon
Assisted with written advice to international investors and their attorneys in relation to the restructuring of Edcon.
Lonmin
Assisted with written advice in relation to the restructuring of Lonmin and its related entities.
Liquidation
Assisted in evicting a company in liquidation (and its related entities and persons) from premises that it occupied illegally for more than 10 years.
Sequestration proceedings
Assisted in conducting a compromise in terms of section 155 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 after the company concerned was liquidated and a potential investor was identified.
Recovery proceeding
assisted a UK company institute recovery proceeding and conclude a settlement against debtors who relocated to South Africa to evade their debt incurred in the UK;
General Notarial Bonds
Instituting urgent perfection application (before debtors could be placed into business rescue proceedings) in terms of a various General Notarial Bonds where client was owed approximately R 1 billion.
Conducting enquiry proceedings
Assisting in convening and conducting enquiry proceedings after the company in question was liquidated after the business rescue proceedings failed and client provided post-commencement finance to the value of 8 million USD; and assisting in instituting proceedings against the appointed business rescue practitioner for inter alia reckless trading and breach of fiduciary duties.
Business rescue proceedings
Assisting in the business rescue proceedings of Comair Limited and Group Five Limited and Group Five Construction Limited
Frontier Co
advising a client in relation to the business rescue proceedings of The New House of Busby (now Frontier Co).
Denel Aerostructures SOC Limited
Assisting a client in relation to the winding-up of Denel Aerostructures SOC Limited and institution of a section 418 enquiry.
News
Borrowers beware: Acceleration clauses are easier to enforce than you think
Generally, lenders do not have an implicit contractual right to demand repayment of a full outstanding amount unless the loan agreement contains an acceleration clause. An acceleration...
Hybrid Event Recording | Economic recession, State of Disaster and business: Navigating the tide
A second national state of disaster has been declared in the space of three years this time due to constrained electricity supply at a time of imminent economic recession and a significant...
The jury’s still out on the nature of security cessions but let’s consider the effect on liquidation
In Grobler v Oosthuizen 2009 (5) SA 500 (SCA), the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) considered the nature of security cessions and found that there are two opposing theories in our law...
Contingent/conditional/damages claims all have locus standi to set aside BR resolution but, once a plan is rejected and no further steps are taken by the BRP, it’s over
Business rescue practitioners (BRPs) must tread with caution when they consider who is deemed a creditor in business rescue proceedings. Further care needs to be applied when the question...
Almost 10 years in, and still no hope of being rescued: BRP slapped with personal punitive costs order
The recent case of Commissioner for the South African Revenue Services v Louis Pasteur Investments (Pty) and Others may be the first of its kind to admonish the actions of a business...
Turnaround Talks | Unpacking the Comair saga
Director and Head of our Business Rescue, Restructuring & Insolvency sector Tobie Jordaan, with Directors, Lucinde Rhoodie, Belinda Scriba, Roxanne Webster, and Associate Nseula Chilikhuma...
Comair under provisional liquidation
Following the High Court's decision to place Comair under provisional liquidation on 14 June 2022, Roxanne Webster, Director in our Business Rescue, Restructuring, & Insolvency Sector...
The dangers business rescue and insolvency practitioners can face
Roxanne Webster, Director in our Business Rescue, Restructuring & Insolvency sector speaks to 702 about the dangers business rescue and insolvency practitioners can face, when working...
Roxanne Webster talks about the IWIRC and the Give a Future Foundation
Roxanne Webster, Director in the Business Rescue, Restructuring & Insolvency Sector talks about her directorship in the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation...
When should a company consider business rescue
Roxanne Webster, Director in our Business Rescue, Restructuring, & Insolvency Sector discussed key things to know about business rescue on CapeTalk.
