Marco Neto
About Marco
About Marco
Marco began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2024. During his time as a Candidate Attorney, Marco completed rotations in our Employment Law, Dispute Resolution, Technology, Media, and Telecommunication, and Corporate & Commercial practice areas.
His experience covers employment and labour matters, including dismissal and industrial action disputes and advisory work; general civil, construction, and insurance litigation and arbitration disputes; technology, media, and telecommunications law, including drafting and advising on data and privacy-related agreements and compliance matters; and a broad range of corporate and finance transactions, including banking, financing, and general corporate work.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- BCom Law, University of Pretoria (2021)
- LLB, University of Pretoria (2023)
Languages
Languages
- English
About Marco
Marco began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2024. During his time as a Candidate Attorney, Marco completed rotations in our Employment Law, Dispute Resolution, Technology, Media, and Telecommunication, and Corporate & Commercial practice areas.
His experience covers employment and labour matters, including dismissal and industrial action disputes and advisory work; general civil, construction, and insurance litigation and arbitration disputes; technology, media, and telecommunications law, including drafting and advising on data and privacy-related agreements and compliance matters; and a broad range of corporate and finance transactions, including banking, financing, and general corporate work.
Credentials
Education
- BCom Law, University of Pretoria (2021)
- LLB, University of Pretoria (2023)
Languages
- English
Experience
Project managing due diligence investigations, including drafting information requests, reviewing corporate and commercial agreements, analysing restructures, preparing due diligence investigation reports, and providing legal recommendations on mitigating risks emerging from due diligence investigations.
Drafting transactional and ancillary security-related agreements, such as subscription agreements, loan agreements, share purchase agreements, pledge and cession agreements, guarantees, subordination agreements, and ancillary commercial contracts.
Preparing corporate authorisations such as board and shareholder resolutions, and attending to compliance requirements arising from transactional and security arrangements.
Preparing legal opinions on corporate and commercial law matters, including transactional legality and enforceability and capacity and authority issues.
Providing general corporate and commercial advice and preparing transactional legal opinions.
Providing company secretarial support, including attending to amendments to memoranda of incorporation, changes in directors, and related Companies and Intellectual Property Commission filings.
News
New Year’s resolutions – Does the signing order of financial assistance resolutions actually matter?
Few things unsettle a transaction quite as effectively as discovering, usually at the eleventh hour, that the ‘wrong’ resolution was signed first.
Does a time-bar challenge negate an adjudicator’s jurisdiction to determine a referred dispute?
Adjudication serves as a crucial dispute resolution tool in South African construction contracts, offering a rapid, interim solution to keep projects moving amid disagreements. Increasingly integrated...
The issue of procedural rights and settlement agreements in the adjudication of the defence of fraud against the enforcement of a performance guarantee
The parties to a construction contract often agree to the conclusion of separate financial arrangements with third parties for the purposes of ensuring financial security and project...
Sick leave and the sick note: Entitlements and abuse
With flu season upon us, sick leave is on the rise. Therefore, it is imperative that employers familiarise themselves with the sick leave entitlements set out in the Basic Conditions...
The right to disconnect from work-related communications outside of working hours
In today’s modern workplace – driven by technology and the increasing prevalence of remote work – employees frequently find themselves entangled in work-related responsibilities outside...
