Services

Our expertise entails, amongst other services

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Disposals
• Joint ventures and partnerships
• Private equity
• Securitisation
• Black economic empowerment
• Due diligence investigations
• Franchises
• Commercial contracts and contractual disputes
• Notary services
• Conveyancing and property law
• Public administration law
• Legal audit and forensic investigations

Core services

• Outsourced company secretarial support
  • Maintaining statutory records and managing CIPC filings
  • Company registrations and changes to company details
  • Drafting resolutions and preparing annual work plans
  • Supporting board and committee meetings, and preparing accurate minutes
  • Maintaining securities, directors’, prescribed-officer and beneficial-ownership records
• Governance advisory and board support
  • Directors’ duties and prescribed-officer obligations
  • Committee mandates and board charters
  • Delegation-of-authority frameworks
  • Codes of ethics and conflicts of interest
  • Governance maturity, and King V application and disclosure
• Compliance, risk and policy frameworks
  • Identifying applicable legislation and maintaining compliance obligations registers
  • Reviewing governance policies and assessing internal controls
  • Corporate law, privacy and information governance obligations
  • Anti-corruption, procurement, protected disclosures and beneficial ownership
• Board assessments, training and governance products
  • Board and committee evaluations
  • Induction programmes, and director and prescribed-officer training
  • Governance calendars, company-secretarial manuals and compliance registers
  • Governance newsletters and tailored briefings on current developments
• Contract, procurement and transaction governance
  • Contract registers, contract-management policies and contract-risk reviews
  • Procurement control reviews and tender-process assessments
  • Supplier vetting and conflict-of-interest reviews
  • Drafting and review of commercial agreements
• Specialist areas
  • Contract management support
  • Procurement assessment and review
  • Governance and compliance diagnostics, including gap assessments against statutory, regulatory and King V-aligned requirements

Matters we handle

• Delict
• Contracts and procurement-related disputes
• Constitutional and administrative matters
• Instituting and/or defending civil and commercial claims (action proceedings)
• Debt collection
• Claims for damages
• Rescission of judgments
• Application proceedings (interlocutory, interdicts, etc.)
• Enforcement of performance
• Insurance claims

Services include

• Conveyancing
• Mortgage and notarial bond registration
• Property rezoning
• Property subdivision
• Sectional title registers
• Servitude registration
• Share block ownership
• Township proclamation
• Land claims
• Evictions
• Transfer of land
• Drafting of lease agreements, and management of leases and properties

Services include

• Institutional review of municipal entities
• Municipal entities restructuring
• Municipal governance models
• Procurement policy drafting for local government
• Tender evaluation and tender specification drafting

Agreements and matters

• Agency, artist and athlete representation contracts
• Representing artists, sportsmen and sports teams before association disciplinary bodies
• Financing of films and/or television programmes
• Commissioning and production agreements
• Hiring of directors, producers, actors, performers and crew
• Advertising and related agreements
• Internet, information technology and communication-related agreements
• Sponsorship and promoters’ agreements
• Music composing, recording, production and distribution agreements
• Artist management and performers’ agreements (live performances, etc.)
• Sports-related agreements
• Copyright-related agreements and matters

Services include

• Telecommunications commercial advisory services
• Information and communication-related agreements
• Telecommunications regulatory framework
• ICT-related policies
• Restraints of trade
• Media, electronic communications, broadcasting, information technology and data protection
• Data privacy laws and electronic communications-related agreements
• Regulatory requirements and licence terms and conditions

Matters we handle

• All matters relating to the Employment Equity Act
• All matters relating to the Labour Relations Act
• Disciplinary proceedings
• Strikes, collective agreements and lock-outs
• Training
• Drafting and assessing employment policies
• Occupational health and safety
• Corporate immigration
• Employee benefits

Services include

• Drafting, notarisation and registration of antenuptial contracts and life partnership agreements
• Drafting, notarisation and registration of special and general notarial bonds
• Authentication of documents, including Apostilles, notarial authentication certificates and powers of attorney for use outside South Africa
• Confirmation of signatures and identity of signatories for sworn or other documents for use outside South Africa
• Drafting, notarisation and registration of special contracts, including long leases, mining rights and servitudes