Marco Neto

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.  

• 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.