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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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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Corporate Debt, Turnaround & Restructuring News
More newsThe (dis)connect between section 34 of the Insolvency Act and business rescue proceedings
Section 34 of the Insolvency Act 24 of 1936 (Insolvency Act) stipulates that if a trader, as defined in section 2 of the Act, transfers a business, its goodwill, or any goods or property forming part of it in terms of a contract, without giving notice as prescribed, the transfer is void as against their creditors for six months thereafter, and it is void against the trustee and the liquidators of the estate if the estate is sequestrated at any time within that period.
“Chairperson, what I know, I don’t remember” – Providing incriminating evidence in a section 417 and 418 enquiry
Commissions of enquiry have become commonplace in the South African legal landscape. In the context of insolvency proceedings, the purpose of such an enquiry is to investigate a specific matter, in an inquisitorial setup, in order to obtain answers about a particular issue.
The impact of mergers and acquisitions on a designated employer’s employment equity plans
The amendments to the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (EEA) took effect from 1 January 2025. The amendments to the EEA introduce a number of key changes, including the introduction of sectoral targets.
Market recognition
- 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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