Our service is comprehensive and tailored to all aspects of corporate debt recoveries, informal business turnarounds and formal restructurings. We understand the legal and regulatory landscape, and can advise on:
Corporate Debt
- Recovery of debts (including perfection of security)
- Forensic Investigations
- Protective orders
- Insolvency Enquiries
- Piercing the corporate veil
- Cross-border recognition proceedings
Turnaround (informal process)
- Business Optimisation
- Structural and operational reorganisation
- Capital restructuring
- Advising on risks
- Crisis stabilisation
- Stakeholder management
- Board/shareholder deadlocks
- Distressed M&A
Restructuring (formal process)
- Compromises
- Business rescue
- Liquidation and sequestration proceedings
- Cross-border insolvency and recognition proceedings
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Our service is comprehensive and tailored to all aspects of corporate debt recoveries, informal business turnarounds and formal restructurings. We understand the legal and regulatory landscape, and can advise on:
Corporate Debt
- Recovery of debts (including perfection of security)
- Forensic Investigations
- Protective orders
- Insolvency Enquiries
- Piercing the corporate veil
- Cross-border recognition proceedings
Turnaround (informal process)
- Business Optimisation
- Structural and operational reorganisation
- Capital restructuring
- Advising on risks
- Crisis stabilisation
- Stakeholder management
- Board/shareholder deadlocks
- Distressed M&A
Restructuring (formal process)
- Compromises
- Business rescue
- Liquidation and sequestration proceedings
- Cross-border insolvency and recognition proceedings
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2022
2021
Corporate Debt, Turnaround & Restructuring Lawyers
Our Corporate Debt, Turnaround & Restructuring team provides strategy advice to boards of directors where the company is financially distressed, to ensure that the directors do not fall foul of their obligations in terms of the Company’s Act.
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Can companies in business rescue shield themselves from guarantee or suretyship claims by using section 133(2)?
Section 133 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (Act) plays a crucial role in South Africa’s corporate restructuring framework by introducing a general moratorium on instituting legal proceedings against a company undergoing business rescue. Section 133(1) ensures that no legal action, including enforcement action, can be initiated against the company or its property without the written consent of the business rescue practitioners or leave of the court. The proposed rationale behind this moratorium is to provide the necessary space for the company and the business rescue practitioners to focus on stabilising the business, restructuring its affairs, and potentially saving it from liquidation.
Foreign insolvency judgments in South Africa
The recent decision by the full bench of the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Ellison v Breytenbach N.O and Another (A278/2022) ZAGPPHC 565 (5 June 2025) sheds light on how South African courts handle the recognition of foreign insolvency judgments – particularly as the South African Cross-Border Insolvency Act 42 of 2000 (Cross-Border Insolvency Act) is of no practical application.
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- Chambers Global 2018 - 2025 ranked us in Band 2 for restructuring/insolvency.
Market recognition
- Chambers Global 2018 - 2025 ranked us in Band 2 for restructuring/insolvency.
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