Leah Williams
About Leah
Experience
- Providing clients with legal opinions on a wide range of employment law-related topics; and dealing with urgent applications, review applications, and interlocutory applications.
- Advising on large-scale retrenchment in terms of section 189A of the Labour Relations Act.
- Drafting employment contracts tailored to client needs.
- Advising local and multinational clients on mergers and acquisitions, due diligence investigations, corporate reorganisations and restructures, bespoke commercial contracts, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, corporate governance and Companies Act compliance.
- Providing corporate governance and company secretarial support. Assisting with attending to director changes, preparation of securities registers and share certificates, providing authorising resolutions, company incorporations, beneficial ownership and annual returns filings.
- Drafting various South African large and intermediate merger notifications in the security, medical and food retail sectors.
Credentials
Education
- Bachelor of Commerce in Law (cum laude), University of Johannesburg, 2021.
- LLB in Law (cum laude), University of Johannesburg, 2023.
- Admitted as an attorney: 2026
LANGUAGES
- English
