Corporate & Commercial Department
Our team of lawyers in the Corporate & Commercial Department provide a comprehensive range of skills in support of a wide variety of businesses. Our lawyers combine expertise and commercial acumen with an understanding of our clients’ businesses and objectives to deliver valuable and constructive solutions.
Our corporate and commercial lawyers include specialists in areas such as banking, competition, construction, corporate, insurance, IP, privacy and tax law. We support clients which operate in the following sectors:
- Agriculture and food processing
- Automotive
- Clothing
- Construction and engineering
- Consumer goods
- Education
- Energy
- Financial
- Government
- Healthcare
- Hospitality and tourism
- Industrial and manufacturing
- Information and communications technology
- Infrastructure
- Insurance
- Media and advertising
- Mining
- Pharmaceuticals
- Private equity
- Property development and leasing
- Retail and wholesale trade services
- Sport and entertainment
- Transport logistics and ports
We work nationally and internationally, and our areas of work include:
- Application of the B-BBEE Codes
- B-BBEE advice
- B-BBEE Commission proceedings
- Compliance with B-BBEE Act
- Designing and setting up ownership schemes
- Associations
- Business trusts
- Charitable trusts
- Employee trusts
- Family trusts
- Special trusts
- Close corporations
- Companies
- Joint ventures
- Partnerships
- Complaint proceedings
- Compliance
- Dawn raids
- Investigations
- Leniency proceedings
- Market inquiries
- Merger control
- Merger filings
- Custom and standard contracts
- Project finance
- Public private partnerships
- Tender documentation and bid evaluation
- Compliance
- Consumer rights
- National Consumer Commission proceedings
- Product recall
- Agency
- Asset lease
- Confidentiality
- Credit
- Disclaimers
- Distribution
- E-commerce
- Entertainment
- Franchising
- Information technology
- Instalment sale
- Licensing
- Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Memoranda of understanding
- Offers
- Options
- Outsourcing
- Sales and marketing services
- Sponsorship
- Sports
- Standard trading terms
- Supply
- Company administration and secretarial services
- Company and group reorganisations
- Company formations
- Compulsory acquisitions
- Corporate governance
- Director and shareholder issues
- JSE listing requirements
- Offers to minorities
- Off-shore company formations
- Off-shore corporate structures
- Share buy-backs
- Share incentive schemes
- Shareholders agreements
- Memorandum of Incorporation
- Takeover Regulation Panel compliance
- Environmental, social and governance structures
- Compliance and risk management
- Data processing
- Due diligence investigations
- Information breaches
- PAIA manuals
- Privacy policies
- Asset financing
- Credit agreements
- Debt and equity capital raising
- Exchange control
- Facility agreements
- Financial leases
- Islamic banking and finance
- Lending
- Preference share schemes
- Private equity
- Securities
- Structured finance
- Trade finance
- Business rescue
- Voluntary liquidation
- Restructuring
- Acquisition and disposal
- Development and planning
- Financing
- Leasing and occupational rights
- Amalgamations
- Asset for share
- Management buyouts
- Purchase and sale of businesses
- Purchase and sale of shares
- Restructuring
- Takeovers
- Unbundlings
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