Emil Brincker

Practice Head, Director

Professor Emil Brincker is a Director and Head of our Tax & Exchange Control practice. Emil’s experience includes the areas of corporate finance, corporate reorganisation and restructuring, exchange control, export finance, funding, general banking and commercial including derivative transactions, empowerment transactions, notional vendor funding, rulings, transfer pricing and tax law including income tax, tax controversy, VAT, securities transfer tax, PAYE, capital gains tax (CGT) and other fiscal statutes.

Emil Brincker

About Emil

About Emil

Emil obtained his doctorate during 1992 on company law and his thesis related to the financial assistance by a company in relation to share acquisitions. He was offered a part-time professorship from the University of Johannesburg during 1999.

Emil began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Hofmeyr (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr). He was a Director at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs and its predecessors for approximately 13 years. Emil joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in November 2008.

Credentials

Credentials

Education

  • BCom cum laude, LLB cum laude, LLM cum laude LLD, University of Stellenbosch
  • HDip (Tax) cum laude, University of Johannesburg
  • Year of admission as an attorney: 1989

Languages

Languages

  • Afrikaans
  • English

About Emil

Emil obtained his doctorate during 1992 on company law and his thesis related to the financial assistance by a company in relation to share acquisitions. He was offered a part-time professorship from the University of Johannesburg during 1999.

Emil began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Hofmeyr (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr). He was a Director at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs and its predecessors for approximately 13 years. Emil joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in November 2008.

Credentials

Education

  • BCom cum laude, LLB cum laude, LLM cum laude LLD, University of Stellenbosch
  • HDip (Tax) cum laude, University of Johannesburg
  • Year of admission as an attorney: 1989

Languages

  • Afrikaans
  • English

News

Market recognition

  • Chambers Global 2003–2024 has consistently ranked him in Band 1 for tax.
  • The Legal 500 EMEA 2017–2023 recommended Emil as a leading individual for tax and named him Lawyer of the Year for tax in 2021. 

Market recognition

  • Chambers Global 2003–2024 has consistently ranked him in Band 1 for tax.
  • The Legal 500 EMEA 2017–2023 recommended Emil as a leading individual for tax and named him Lawyer of the Year for tax in 2021.