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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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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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Shadow Careers
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr is representing Shadow Careers, the South Africa-based innovative impact sourcing initiative in response to the high youth unemployment. Our South Africa-based restructuring & insolvency team is advising Shadow Careers and Shadow Academy Global NPC on a liquidation application which was brought on an urgent basis. The first applicant, Edwin Jacques Pietersen, was a director of Shadow Careers and still is a director of Shadow Academy. The second applicant, Greenchild Project, was a service provider for Shadow Careers.
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Shadow Careers
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr is representing Shadow Careers, the South Africa-based innovative impact sourcing initiative in response to the high youth unemployment. Our South Africa-based restructuring & insolvency team is advising Shadow Careers and Shadow Academy Global NPC on a liquidation application which was brought on an urgent basis. The first applicant, Edwin Jacques Pietersen, was a director of Shadow Careers and still is a director of Shadow Academy. The second applicant, Greenchild Project, was a service provider for Shadow Careers.
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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.
When the piper calls in the face of a disputed debt
The legend of the pied piper has long served as a cautionary tale for debtors who fail to honour their obligations. Ignore the piper’s call, and the price to be paid will be far greater. In today’s insolvency landscape, the statutory demand is the legal equivalent of that call: a formal written notice from a creditor to a debtor, demanding payment of an outstandingdebt.
The Tao of equity capital
Nastascha Harduth - Sector Head and Director, Yaniv Kleitman – Director, and Zachary Kokosioulis - Associate were recently featured in the Sunday Times Supplement, where they discussed “The Tao of equity capital.”
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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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