Vincent Manko
Vincent Manko is a Director in our Dispute Resolution practice. Vincent operates mainly in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitrations, business rescue, restructuring and insolvency, perfections and foreclosures, corporate recoveries, administrative and procurement law.
About Vincent
About Vincent
Vincent joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2013. He was appointed as an Associate and admitted as an Attorney in 2015 and promoted to Senior Associate in 2018. Vincent was promoted to Director in 2022.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- LLB, University of Johannesburg (UJ)
- Year of admission as an attorney: 2015
- The 6th Course of China-Africa Legal Professional Exchange Programme: 17June 2019 to 7 July 2019
- Registered with the Legal Practice Council
Membership
- Legal Practitioner in terms of the Legal Practice Act
- South African Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association (SARIPA)
- INSOL International (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals)
Languages
Languages
- English
- isiXhosa
- isiZulu
- Sepedi
- Sesotho
- Setswana
About Vincent
Vincent joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2013. He was appointed as an Associate and admitted as an Attorney in 2015 and promoted to Senior Associate in 2018. Vincent was promoted to Director in 2022.
Credentials
Education
- LLB, University of Johannesburg (UJ)
- Year of admission as an attorney: 2015
- The 6th Course of China-Africa Legal Professional Exchange Programme: 17June 2019 to 7 July 2019
- Registered with the Legal Practice Council
Membership
- Legal Practitioner in terms of the Legal Practice Act
- South African Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association (SARIPA)
- INSOL International (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals)
Languages
- English
- isiXhosa
- isiZulu
- Sepedi
- Sesotho
- Setswana
Experience
Arbitration and court proceedings
Advising and acting for a JSE listed chemicals group in a dispute with City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and Johannesburg Water SOC Limited in arbitration and court proceedings relating to among others the powers of the Municipality to enter into binding and valid agreements in terms of the municipal regulatory framework including inter alia the Local Government: Municipal Systems and the Municipal Finance Management Act.
judicial review of the findings
Advising and acting for leading players in the recovery and treatment of all types of waste from both industry and local communities that provide integrated waste management services to a wide range of industries from manufacturing, mining and petro chemicals to oil and gas, construction, FMCG, pharmaceuticals and automotive in a judicial review of the findings of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission that they committed the offence of fronting and undermined the objectives of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act.
Commercial arbitration proceedings
Advising and acting for a water service board and a major public entity in commercial arbitration proceedings against a water services authority for a claim in excess of R100 million.
Commercial arbitration
Advising and acting for a major public entity in commercial arbitration proceedings and auxiliary litigation arising from disputes relating to public procurement and claims in excess of R800 million.
Defamation proceedings
Advising and acting for a global market research and a consulting firm in defamation proceedings with a claim of R50 million.
Range of securities
Advising and acting for banks and development financial institutions in perfecting a wide range of securities including notarial general covering bonds, mortgage bonds and special notarial bonds.
Business rescue
Advised and acted for a major bank in the perfection of its securities in respect of the facilities in the sum of approximately R72 million and advising on the resultant business rescue.
Advised and acted for a major commercial bank in a cross-border insolvency dispute and advised on the resultant sequestration.
Business rescue
Advised and acted for a public entity in relation to the business rescue of an anthracite coal mine against the Business Rescue Practitioners and an JSE listed entity where the public entity contended that the adopted business rescue plan amounted to unlawful expropriation of its shareholding which was ultra vires the Companies Act.
Recovery of guarantees
Advised and acted for a multinational oil and gas company in the business rescue of fuel wholesaler trading with fuel and fuel related products and ultimately led to the recovery of guarantees in the amount of R220 million.
Public procurement
Regularly advising private companies and public entities on issues of public procurement, delegations of authority and supply chain management and the implications of the Public Finance Management Act, the National Treasury Regulations and Practice/Instruction Notes; Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act and the Regulations, Local Government: Municipal Systems and the Municipal Finance Management Act.
State-owned telecommunications
Advised a state-owned telecommunications company on the potential conflict of interests on a tender relating to the appointment of a panel of service providers for the provision of technical personnel on an ad hoc basis and applicability of the cooling-off period in terms of the provisions of its supply chain management policy and further advised on an exit strategy and drafted the necessary termination letters.
Procurement fraud and corruption
Advised as a state-owned air traffic management entity in relation to serious fraud and corruption allegations levelled against one of its service providers (a multinational company) and whether it should continue doing business with that entity, after it had been accused of serious crime involving procurement fraud and corruption in the Republic of South Africa.
Civil aviation authority
Advised a state-owned air traffic management entity on a tender issued by the civil aviation authority of a neighbouring SADC state including its obligations to National Treasury and its execute authority arising from the Public Finance Management Act, the National Treasury Regulations and Practice/Instruction Notes.
Compliance
Advising private companies on compliance with the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act and appearing before the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission.
News
Liability of municipal officials for unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
Municipalities have original constitutional powers and are directly responsible for the management of their affairs. They are required to comply with the norms and standards imposed...
'New Dawn' for Public Procurement in South Africa: The Public Procurement Act becomes law
Following its adoption by the National Assembly on 16 May 2024, President Cyril Ramaphosa on 23 July 2023, assented to signed into law the Public Procurement Act 28 of 2024. The Public Procurement...
Procurement integrity and general procurement requirements
Public procurement is one of the government activities highly vulnerable to corruption. The financial interests at stake, the volume of transactions and the close interaction between...
The establishment of the Public Procurement Tribunal
The complex public procurement system in South Africa has been fertile ground for litigation over many years, and to say that law reports are replete with cases dealing with public...
The extent of business rescue practitioners’ powers to suspend a company’s contractual obligations
Chapter 6 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (Companies Act) confers various powers on business rescue practitioners (BRPs) once they have assumed their responsibilities to restructure...
Syndicated Loan Financing and the role of facility agent
Syndicated and club loans are now the leading source of private debt funding for corporates in South Africa.
Webinar Recording | Unlocking and Protecting Investment Flow in Africa: The AfCFTA Investment Protocol
Investment into existing and new industries in Africa is critical to unlock the economic growth and development benefits the AfCFTA holds for Africa.
The need for businesses rescue to combat extreme rise in liquidations
Vincent Manko, a Director in the Dispute Resolution practice, joined POWER FM to address who qualifies for business rescue and the need for business rescue to combat the extreme rise...
Surge in struggling SA businesses as liquidations rise by 34.6%
Vincent Manko, Director in the Dispute Resolution practice, joined Jeremy Maggs on Moneyweb to discuss the importance of business rescue amid a significant surge in liquidations.
Unravelling SA's public procurement challenges
Vincent Manko joined Jeremy Maggs on Moneyweb to unpack the unravelling of SA's public procurement challenges – the ins and outs of the Public Procurement Tribunal.
What are the next steps for Comair
The provisional liquidation Comair continues to raise questions on what will happen going will forward. Vincent Manko, Director in our Business Rescue, Restructuring & Insolvency sector...
Expertise
Dispute Resolution
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Corporate Debt, Turnaround & Restructuring
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Public Law
We have experience across key areas of public law and understand the relevant legal and policy frameworks.
Regulatory
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