Practice Areas

Mergers and Acquisitions

Including due diligence investigations, acquisitions and disposals, shareholders’ agreements, restructuring, joint ventures, management buy-outs, schemes of arrangements and general corporate transactions.

Deal and transaction structuring

Including business structures, commercial contracts and agreements, corporate reorganisation, due diligence investigations, assets, shares and business sales and purchases, corporate restructuring, drafting, negotiating and reviewing all forms of commercial and business contracts.

Security

Including advising on compliance with securities laws and disclosure, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities and dealings with oversight bodies.

Insolvency and business rescue

Including restructuring advice (including advising on filing for business rescue, the appointment of business rescue practitioners and overseeing the business rescue process), instituting and opposing liquidation proceedings and advising stakeholders, directors, employees and creditors.

Dispute resolution and litigation

Including all commercial disputes, insolvency related litigation, media litigation, debt collection, banking litigation, cross-border litigation, intellectual property-related disputes, administrative matters and constitutional litigation.

Antitrust and competition

Including competition compliance and risk management, mergers, investigations and referrals and compliance matters.

Communications, media, technology and telecommunications

Including advising on licensing and regulatory compliance, assisting in dealing with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, the competition authorities and the civil courts, media-related contracts, media disputes, IT contracts, telecommunication-related contracts.

Mining

Including advising on regulatory and compliance matters, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions and due diligence investigations.

Employment and labour

Including drafting and reviewing employment agreements, policies and procedures, litigation and private dispute resolution, M&A employment related issues.